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Rifle and Optics Forums => Single Shot Rifles => Topic started by: Swampman on December 09, 2011, 02:33:01 PM

Title: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: Swampman on December 09, 2011, 02:33:01 PM: Bought a Pedersoli Sharps Model 1874 .45/70 Cavalry Carbine today for about 1/2 price. Very tickled!
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Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: tacklebury on December 09, 2011, 03:09:08 PM: Man, yer gettin all the good deals! ;) Congrats. love to see a pic. 8)
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find (pics added)
Post by: Swampman on December 10, 2011, 05:12:10 AM: (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/Woodsman1956/Black%20Powder/100_3810.jpg)
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Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: GRIMJIM on December 10, 2011, 05:48:03 AM: Nice, I've been wanting a sharps for a while.
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: mechanic on December 10, 2011, 07:08:37 AM: I need to come down and visit your pawn shops. Mine rarely have anything but rusted up Mossbergs.

Ben
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: PowPow on December 10, 2011, 07:30:45 AM: Swampman, Do you think the pawn shops have better stuff because of the military bases down there?
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: Swampman on December 10, 2011, 08:25:35 AM: I believe it's because older GIs are passing away and their kids pawn everything to buy drugs or booze.
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: Airsporter on December 16, 2011, 10:18:51 AM: Forget about the Sharps. Tell me about the paddle!
Title: Re: Pawn Shop Find
Post by: Swampman on December 16, 2011, 10:57:17 AM: It's a vintage paddle from the 1930s. I bought it in North Carolina. We do some paddling on the Blackwater River.