my first craigslist trade

typically when some one asks me to trade i typically just say no, last night i got a text (hate texts for business) and he asked if i would trade. i typed no first then deleted it and asked what he had. he sent me the two pics below, the 3rd is on the hood of my truck and the last is what i traded in what i for after the converter was cut off, if i remember right i paid $200 for the car and got $45 for the converter so $155 invested. i will probably never do this good again, i give dustin the 303 to show my appreciation to him and i kept the marlin 45, quote from dustin the best day ever
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How can you know if those are "legal" ?

I like the guns. Good trade Cory.

Edit: An the pinball machine the yard..haha!

Sirscrapalot - BANG! BANG!

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Nice...:)

[QUOTE=Bear;160174]How can you know if those are "legal" ?[/QUO

to be honest bear I don't guess I do "know" but ive bought at this point 100's of cars and I didn't have any red flags pop up on this transaction

Congrats on your trade.. Would just make sure.. them are legal.. and be sure to register them in your name.. if they are cleared... but love guns.. but have kids.. so no guns in my house.. unless they are the rubber band type on a wooden stick.

Those rifles will hold/increase their value far better than the car nice deal. If you ever need some cash and don't need a rifle let me know:)

Great deal and investment...nice work Cory.

Cory-
All you would need to do is find a deputy sheriff or local police officer- any one of them can run them for you.. dealing with the bondsman.. if you don't know an officer- he surely will.

Haha, I just hope they are Cory, there's lotsa people trades stuff that isn't really theirs. I put some stuff on CL, it might have been my first ad there or close to it. The first inquiery I get simply said "wanna trade?" and had a pic of a nice riding mower. Maybe I'm just suspicious sometimes, but my first thought was how easy those things would be to steal. Well, I needed the money instead anyway so I simply said not interested. I could get by with driving anything I wanted to around here on the farm, but I'd never have a good feeling about driving around on something like that, even if it was only a suspicion,

That Enfield 303 has gone through some considerable restoration, some very fine work too, I might add. Back around 67-68, Montgomery Wards had a huge mail order supply in Ft Worth. We lived there then, my Dad had a custom cabinet shop there. He'd take us deer hunting every year, Thanksgiving week was spent camping in the mountains. Somehow he happened upon a sale at Wards, they had 303 Enfields in their original crates, apparently selling them off at a great price, he bought us all one. They were well packed in the crates, suited for shipping and storage, but you could still see the age on them. They had full length stocks like yours does, but he cut mine down to where it was about like the Marlin there. His brother, my uncle, was an aircraft mechanic and took the barrel and blued it. It was an awesome looking little gun. I ran with some neighborhood kids who weren't the most honest kids around, although they were most times decent buddies. We were gone once for about a week, and when we got home, it had been stolen. I didn't know who might have taken it, but time went by, and eventually another friend(from another background totally) told me it had been a guy from his hood, who had been messing around in ours at that time, and that he'd got in trouble, and police in their burb had it, and all I'd have to do to get it back was walk in there and tell em it was mine, which I never did. That's a shame too, because it was great rifle.
Anyway, all I'm saying is I know those guns fairly well, and yours has been painfully restored, or kept in a museum ; )
Good luck with it Cory, I hope it pans out to mere suspicion : )

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Congrats on your trade.. Would just make sure.. them are legal.. and be sure to register them in your name.. if they are cleared... but love guns.. but have kids.. so no guns in my house.. unless they are the rubber band type on a wooden stick.

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Why would you register them with the government?

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Why would you register them with the government?

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My thoughts also, But I didn't want to be the first to ask

WOW!---I'll take a trade like that any time. u did good! And btw--the 303 alone goes high in the pawn shops here in texas. if your buying that is-- if your selling pawn shops don't give 25% of true value as im sure most gun guys know.

I was on a forum the night we were making the deal, the marlin on the low end was 900, the 303 was around 300, but none had the bayonet and were not as nice as mine, I had the car listed on craigslist for 1000. remember I give the 303 to dustin with the promise that if he ever sold it I got first shot at a set price and he agreed