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Posted: 11/16/2016 4:50:01 PM EDT
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My girlfriends dad had this Winchester Model 75 sitting in a case in the back of his basement.
Anyone have any idea what something like this is worth? It's very dirty so I'm going to pull it all apart and clean it for him, but I'd like to let him know what he's got on his hands. According to some Google searches, it was manufactured in 1938 (S/N 411 on receiver and bolt). EDIT: He actually traded the rifle for a case of beer. The running joke in their family was that it was stolen 
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Quoted: My girlfriends dad had this Winchester Model 75 sitting in a case in the back of his basement so I asked him how he got his hands on it. Long story short, someone stole it from a bar Anyone have any idea what something like this is worth? It's very dirty so I'm going to pull it all apart and clean it for him, but I'd like to let him know what he's got on his hands. http://m.imgur.com/gallery/7ON8UTk http://m.imgur.com/gallery/00lB6qS It's worth nothing but a stolen firearms charge  |
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I have a 1940 Model 75 (that my Grandfather bought for my father) and looked them up on Gunbroker a few years ago. I recall they had some that sold for $1000-1500.
The checkering on the stock is going to detract from value, and it does look like there are several tapped holes drilled into the barrel that are not stock. That will detract also. Re: the "Stolen", I think OP's point was it was traded for a case of beer, so it was not actually stolen, but figuratively (if I read OP correctly) Obilgatory pics of Dad's guns (1940 Win 75 and 1941 Remington 513-T) 
PS: Shot "Rifleman" at my first Appleseed with both rifles 
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I have a 1940 Model 75 (that my Grandfather bought for my father) and looked them up on Gunbroker a few years ago. I recall they had some that sold for $1000-1500. The checkering on the stock is going to detract from value, and it does look like there are several tapped holes drilled into the barrel that are not stock. That will detract also. Re: the "Stolen", I think OP's point was it was traded for a case of beer, so it was not actually stolen, but figuratively (if I read OP correctly) Obilgatory pics of Dad's guns (1940 Win 75 and 1941 Remington 513-T)
http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad262/gusandson/Firearms/WP_20150620_017_zpshvzygoc7.jpg PS: Shot "Rifleman" at my first Appleseed with both rifles Great rifles you've got there. Yeah I've looked up old threads about how the extra holes, no iron sights and checkering devalue the rifle. I will just tell him about the history of it and to shoot the absolute piss out of it 
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