Thinking of selling the .50 cal - where?

[TXAZ]

Any recommendations on where to sell my Barrett .50 M107A1 w QDL?
ive heard several bad stories about gunbroker, and haven’t done a public sale in 20 years.

 

[Vaquero]

Somewhere with BLM land and the rifle and ammo are legal.
50 bmg is hard to find a range for nowadays.

 

[Big Green]

 

[craigntx]

Sturmgewehr.com

 

[baboon]

Sturmgewehr.com

Don't you have to pay to become a member on Sturmgewehr.com now to list items for sale?

 

[baboon]

Any recommendations on where to sell my Barrett .50 M107A1 w QDL?
ive heard several bad stories about gunbroker, and haven done a public sale in 20 years.

I have been trying to sell my McBros Benchrest gun .50 for years. .50 BMG's are a very small market place because most are rather expensive and lack of places to shoot them.

You might have better luck doing a trade then out right sale. I hope you have better luck then myself. Every time I think I might have a buyer lined up they back out.

 

[madwildcat]

Any particular reason not to list it here? If you are really wanting to feel comfortable about the sale, you might be able to find other sellers here who have sold to who ever might be interested. If anything, I would think the worry about "someone using the gun for wrong" would be a lot lower with a 50 BMG than all the pistols that get sold on here.

 

[glenbo]

List it here with pictures and description.

 

[Steve In Texas]

Put up a picture and a price here. Threads can be moved intact and this one already has at least a look or two. A truly unique firearm may sell well at a consignment shop with wide exposure and they handle the lookers.

 

[oldag]

I would NOT sell it in Laredo, Brownsville or El Paso.

Do not list it in Craigslist Matamoros.

 

[benenglish]

Ever considered the FCSA? If you're active in that community, I reckon opportunities for moving iron will occasionally present themselves.

 

[benenglish]

Threads can be moved intact and this one already has at least a look or two.

Yes but it's unlikely a mod would start a for sale thread for the OP using this thread as a basis. This thread already has a few entries that violate the rules of the Classifieds.

By all means, I encourage the OP to list his rifle on TGT. He can put a pointer to that ad in this thread. But this thread won't be moving into the Classifieds.

 

[oldag]

https://www.texasguntalk.com/thread...suspicious-large-caliber-rifles.121231/unread

 

[toddnjoyce]

If you’re in the SAT area, I’d head over to Drury’s to see about a consignment.

 

[TXAZ]

All great input, thanks.
I’m only considering selling it at this time, but also realize it’s a monster in the wrong hands and do worry about that (here are a couple of rounds that will penetrate a Bradley or Bearcat).
And it’s harder to find anywhere you can shoot more than 100 yards. Yes I’m in the FCSA and going to the shoot in 3 weeks.
Still just thinking about it.

 

[benenglish]

Yes I’m in the FCSA and going to the shoot in 3 weeks.

May the spirit of Skip Talbot bless your undertakings.

 

[baboon]

May the spirit of Skip Talbot bless your undertakings.

Talking with TXAZ at Axxes shoot this past weekend about .50 Skip Talbot name did come up. Way back in the day that Skip took the 1000 yard title was when I was getting into the .50 bmg frame of mind. I was a member back then of FCSA. I met Robert Pauza while shooting at American Shooting Center. That was all it took pulling the trigger on his designed gun, and I wanted a .50 bmg. I met another guy in Bryan/College Station who was a pioneer in .50 bag's, but cannot remember his name.

The more I learned the more I had dreams of then competing so in my mind having a rifle just like Skip Talbot's built. That's when I decided to go with the McBros rifle built like Skip's title winner. Back then the Barrett's were just emerging on the scene.

This was so long ago I still had my FFL. Slick Willy had been elected & I felt I'd better get my act together. While waiting on my rifle, my FFL expired. More of Slick Willy's restrictions on gun rights, made having the FFL impossible for me to keep. (I had received it when I turned 21 years old while still in Illinois.) The rifle took longer then promised & it was transferred to an old gunny in Pearland who had a shell holder designed action built by McBros. IIRC his name was Fisher who received & transfer me my rifle free of charge.

Talk about a walk down memory lane. Funny looking back at all that I was most likely a newly married man. And I was blowing money on a Swarovski spotting scope & stand, a Ransom rifle rest, Leupold MK IV scope & rings. Ammo was not as readily available back then. A bunch of surplus from the Dominican Republic was available & blowing up guns. Most of the good surplus .50 bmg was being bought up by guys who shot Ma Dueces. I ended up but some from a place in Maine that had solid bronze projectiles & from then Thunderbird Cartridge Company. None of this stuff was cheap. And my new bride never bitched a single word about what was a lot of money with her going to school. Man I miss that woman.

 

[benenglish]

Skip Talbot name did come up.

I really liked that guy after he kicked my ass (and everybody else, too) at a shoot in Uvalde, circa 1978. We talked a bit and he impressed me as a rather driven individual; if he was going to do something, he was going to do it right.

That was before his 50 cal adventures, back when he was the king of unlimited class pistol silhouette.

 

[baboon]

I really liked that guy after he kicked my ass (and everybody else, too) at a shoot in Uvalde, circa 1978. We talked a bit and he impressed me as a rather driven individual; if he was going to do something, he was going to do it right.

That was before his 50 cal adventures, back when he was the king of unlimited class pistol silhouette.

Damn 1978 I was a year out of high school working as a AM pre loader at UPS & married to my practice wife. What a life time ago. If I would have had my head on straight back then I would have came to Texas back then instead off wasting 6 more years of my life in Illinois.

 

[davidindallas]

Gunbroker.
If you dont have 50 or more (my comfort zone) feedbacks people may think you're a scammer.
The risk is on the buyers end.