Selling my lee Enfield

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I had an interesting experience about 3 years ago...

Walked into the gun dealers and there on the counter was a Marlin 1895 in .45/70 gov. Stainless and laminate. My initial thought was "dam, I would have bought that". I owned 1895 years earlier and regretted selling it.

So I stood an listened to the conversation.... turned out this older gentleman was trying to trade it in for a brand new, lighter rifle of a smaller calibre. He had hardly used it as it was too heavy for him. The RFD wouldn't give this customer the price he wanted... (basically a straight swap).... So I stepped in.... called the RFD to one side and said " I want that Marlin, so if you give the man the deal he wants, I'll give you whatever you want from me for it"...... so a few weeks later I returned with a fresh variation, gave the RFD £900... The Customer was happy, he got his new gun, the RFD was happy because he made money off the new sale and £100 off me and I was happy because I had a nice, lightly used Marlin at £400 below new price, at a time that there was no new Marlins available... It was a win, win, win situation if ever there was one.....

Had I had been there a few minutes later, the man would have walked out of the shop and I would have missed that lovely Marlin.