541S remington

[swiftman]

I have a 5 41S remington that I gave $165 for many years a go. I friend of mine went too ohio to a large flea market. He said that they had one there that looked like they had used it to drive fence post and they wanted $595 for it. Are they worth that much now?

[jh45gun]

My 2000 wilson price guide list the 541S as 200 bucks fair. 400 VG and 550 excellent  and this is a 2000 price guide so I would expect the newer ones to have slightly higher prices. So if that gun looked like it drove post it was priced at least 400 to 500 bucks too darn much. Typical flea markets and gun show type prices get as much as you can expecially to the uninformed and unwary.  :x

[Keith L]

I went into my safe and checked out the model number on the Remmington .22 I have.  It is a 581, and I bought it for $15.00 at an auction.  It sat in the corner of the milk house and was covered with paint splatter and bird crap.  The extractor was broken and the inside of the bolt channel is all scraped up from the ice pick the former owner used to remove spent shells.  It cleand up well, and although is not a tack driver on paper it seems to always hit what I want it to in the woods.  I have less than $25.00 total in this gun.  Sometimes the well used ones have learned how to work!