Value- Browning HiPower Practical

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Can anyone give me a reasonable price range for this? It's in EC and comes with 9 mags. One original and the rest Mec Gar. It's a 1991 vintage.
 
JBB said:
Can anyone give me a reasonable price range for this? It's in EC and comes with 9 mags. One original and the rest Mec Gar. It's a 1991 vintage.
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Without good pictures and a better description:

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To give you our opinion on it's value, we real need info.
 
If it is a Excellent condition 1991 BHP Practical it is worth about $1000 +/- depending on if it has fixed or adjustable sights, box manual etc... It is already missing one factory mag. It is not really collectible not matter what anyone tells you. The Mecgar mags are worth $15 a piece used you can buy them NIW for $21.
 
Fixed sights. I don't think they started with the adj. sights until around 1993. So if in EC (and the pics show that it is, but sure wish I could handle it first), $1000 for the gun and $120 for the Mec Gar mags. So $1120 total. That's right about where the seller is at. not interested in in as a collectible. I shoot all my guns.
 
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Fixed sights. I don't think they started with the adj. sights until around 1993. So if in EC (and the pics show that it is, but sure wish I could handle it first), $1000 for the gun and $120 for the Mec Gar mags. So $1120 total. That's right about where the seller is at. not interested in in as a collectible. I shoot all my guns.
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Fair deal in todays market. Historically you are over paying. In early 2019-2020 it is a $800 gun with the mags. #covid19inflation

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Agreed. A year ago I would have only paid around $800. But with the situation this last year, $1000 or more is sounding like the average. Those GunBroker sales total $1434/1583/1324/1490 after you add in tax and shipping and CC fee. So I think $1000 is a very fair deal. No box/manual but I have a that from a previous HP Practical that was stolen. Does that count? The gun does have one minor scratch on it (that the seller highlighted in one of the photos), so maybe the condition should be VGC instead of EC. Also getting a spare BarSto barrel with it. But I'm paying extra for that.
 
JBB said:
Agreed. A year ago I would have only paid around $800. But with the situation this last year, $1000 or more is sounding like the average. Those GunBroker sales total $1434/1583/1324/1490 after you add in tax and shipping and CC fee. So I think $1000 is a very fair deal. No box/manual but I have a that from a previous HP Practical that was stolen. Does that count? The gun does have one minor scratch on it (that the seller highlighted in one of the photos), so maybe the condition should be VGC instead of EC. Also getting a spare BarSto barrel with it. But I'm paying extra for that.
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Skip the Barsto. If it is a drop in then it will not shoot any better than the factory. If it needs to be fitted it will cost you to have a smith do it right and it will still not shoot any better. IMHO I have BHPs from some of the top smiths in the world and all of them recommend keeping the FN barrel unless it is out of spec of defective. I saw that gun on AR15. At $1200 you are getting a fair deal.
 
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