whats this worth?

bfreeder00 · Feb 21, 2010

Not sure what this is worth or what I should ask for when selling it, so I was hopeful I could get some help from you all.
Mossberg 500 with three barrels. There is a slug, modified, and full choke. The full choke is the thicker goose barrel for use with steel shot. The body and stock have been painted cammo (not by me) but on the side of the body there is a duck/waterfowl engraved on it.

travistheone · Feb 21, 2010

Barrels are worth probably 60 bucks if they are used.

New the gun is around 350.

The paint job will hurt the value substantially unless you find someone who really likes it.

tdt91 · Feb 21, 2010

august1410 · Feb 21, 2010

I'd have to say the paint job is up to an individual's taste, but significantly hurts the value of the gun. I paid $200 for a decent condition Mossy with nice wood furniture that was only 17 years old.

Guessing with the engraving, it was some kind of "non-typical" model, as the average ones had none, the paint is a considerable detriment. EDIT- Engraved receivers were available on 1960's models. Normally scrolling. Is this the Ducks Unlimited model, or the 1969 50th Anniversary perhaps?

I would say $175 for the gun itself (with a plain 28" bbl), and $60-80 a piece for each separate barrel.

MDMOUNTAINEER · Feb 21, 2010

You're probably better off keeping it.

august1410 · Feb 21, 2010

tss1004 said:
You're probably better off keeping it.

I agree. Or pick a barrel, put it on and sell the others.

DundalkSmithy · Feb 21, 2010

I've been looking for a used beater shotty. Lemme know what you would want for just the shotty with the 18.5 inch barrel.

narcolepticsniper · Feb 21, 2010

it's worth $25
I'll buy it from you for $30 :innocent0

august1410 · Feb 21, 2010

narcolepticsniper said:
it's worth $25
I'll buy it from you for $30

$35.

guthook · Feb 21, 2010

Keep haggling with them. It will help your post count, which must be over 50 to sell items on the forum.

bfreeder00 · Feb 22, 2010

I am not trying to inflate my post count, or break any other forum rules, I was just interested in how much this is worth.

august1410 · Feb 22, 2010

bfreeder00 said:
I am not trying to inflate my post count, or break any other forum rules, I was just interested in how much this is worth.

The Mossy 500 is my favorite "modern" pump shotgun. Infinitely configurable, easy to disassemble and fun as hell to shoot.

I would say the only downside to it is the camo. Depending on the age, without the camo, It would be in the $200-250 range easily. If the camo was only on the stock and forend, they could be replaced. Unfortunately, the camo covers the engraving. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I cannot find a lot of Mossy 500s with the engraving. Most of the ones I can find had scroll work only and they were from the '60s.

Would make a nice utility gun, as is. A beater hunting gun or a decent HD gun.

WSM · Feb 22, 2010

where were you like a week ago

bfreeder00 · Feb 22, 2010

Here are some pictures of the engraving. I was able to clean the paint off of these parts with out damaging the underlying finish. Have not cleaned everything thing yet, but wanted to see if anyone here had evern seen one like this.\

august1410 · Feb 22, 2010

Looks to me as if someone had the engraving done....I've been googling this and cannot find any instance of a canvasback drake engraved on a factory issued Mossy 500.

X-Factor · Feb 22, 2010

Man that gun looks like it's been to hell and back....

august1410 · Feb 22, 2010

Does the slide have a rail on each side, or just one. If only one, it's a pre-1970 model.

bfreeder00 · Feb 22, 2010

The slide has a rail on both sides. After looking around online I only found one factory engraved 500 and its bolt assembly had the same engraving as mine. Hopefully someone here can shed some more light on this.

tdt91 · Feb 22, 2010

keep cleaning that thing up, it will be more desireable original, with that engraving of course. You could check with shot gun world.com

bfreeder00 · Feb 22, 2010

The metal pieces will all clean up fine, the wood however is beyond saving

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