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BYF44 sporter question

zperkey2003

zperkey2003

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Hello, currently looking at a BYF44 a friend of mine has. It’s sporterized, but all matching but the buttplate. Still has full barrel length, original sights, handguard, and rear barrel band. The finish is very nice still, however the butt plate has been chromed out. Good bore. What would a fair offer be on this? It looks like it needs a new buttplate, stock, and front barrel band.
 

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zperkey2003 said:
Hello, currently looking at a BYF44 a friend of mine has. It’s sporterized, but all matching but the buttplate. Still has full barrel length, original sights, handguard, and rear barrel band. The finish is very nice still, however the butt plate has been chromed out. Good bore. What would a fair offer be on this? It looks like it needs a new buttplate, stock, and front barrel band.
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If it’s been sporterized, I wouldn’t necessarily take the serial numbers into consideration with price IMO. I personally would pay probably no more than $300-$400 max depending on condition. If you plan on “restoring” it, you’re probably going to put a few more hundred into it, but again that’s just my opinion.
 
You need to get the letter block - affects value.
'l' block, 'n' block and 'k' block Sn on rec.
Those are completely restorable to correct configuration.
 
bruce98k said:
You need to get the letter block - affects value.
'l' block, 'n' block and 'k' block Sn on rec.
Those are completely restorable to correct configuration.
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Isn't it pretty difficult to find blank bands these days? Personally I've never seen a set for sale.
 
aletarte said:
If it’s been sporterized, I wouldn’t necessarily take the serial numbers into consideration with price IMO. I personally would pay probably no more than $300-$400 max depending on condition. If you plan on “restoring” it, you’re probably going to put a few more hundred into it, but again that’s just my opinion.
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Gotcha, I’ll throw 300 out and see what happens. I plan on restoring it to the best I can. Not super concerned about getting a 100% correct stock. Just a wartime 98k stock.
 
zperkey2003 said:
Gotcha, I’ll throw 300 out and see what happens. I plan on restoring it to the best I can. Not super concerned about getting a 100% correct stock. Just a wartime 98k stock.
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My biggest thing is that the boot matches the receiver.
Aaron said:
Isn't it pretty difficult to find blank bands these days? Personally I've never seen a set for sale.
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if I go to restore it I’ll probably just put a serialized band on it. I can live with a small part like that not matching.
 
aletarte said:
If it’s been sporterized, I wouldn’t necessarily take the serial numbers into consideration with price IMO. I personally would pay probably no more than $300-$400 max depending on condition. If you plan on “restoring” it, you’re probably going to put a few more hundred into it, but again that’s just my opinion.
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Yea, no. I would love to see examples of matching sporters for $300-$400. We're talking matching receiver+bolt+triggerguard metal, and maybe the lower band. $600+ is my experience.
 
zperkey2003 said:
Hello, currently looking at a BYF44 a friend of mine has. It’s sporterized, but all matching but the buttplate. Still has full barrel length, original sights, handguard, and rear barrel band. The finish is very nice still, however the butt plate has been chromed out. Good bore. What would a fair offer be on this? It looks like it needs a new buttplate, stock, and front barrel band.
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You know the saying, a picture speaks a 1000 words?

Perhaps a few thousand words would help you get a better answer.
 
aletarte said:
If it’s been sporterized, I wouldn’t necessarily take the serial numbers into consideration with price IMO. I personally would pay probably no more than $300-$400 max depending on condition. If you plan on “restoring” it, you’re probably going to put a few more hundred into it, but again that’s just my opinion.
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Pics uploaded
 
waw44 said:
Yea, no. I would love to see examples of matching sporters for $300-$400. We're talking matching receiver+bolt+triggerguard metal, and maybe the lower band. $600+ is my experience.
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I paid $450 for a complete matching barrel action/ all metal parts sporter that I restored. I made a post on the forums here about the rifle.
 
Not sure where you guys think/are getting your lumber from, but nice stock sets with metal were 250-400 10 to 15 years ago. There were some beat to shite stocks totally not matching for like $175 or so around a year ago.

Not trying to be a dick just my honest experience
 
Oh, and someone (Apex, Centerfire or Sarco) had stock sets, generally not totally complete, beat and complete mixmasters. Some people said they got decent stuff; most not so much. Some apparently were shortened. I can't say for certain as I didn't see them in person, just going by what was reported.
 
I was hoping the stock could be salvageable (and original) but with those faint stock cartouches, the current stock doesn’t appear to be correct for a byf 44
 
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