$100 Colt Rebate on 01991

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WVsig

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Now through the end of the year Colt is offering $100 gift card when you purchase a NIB Colt Govt 01991. Not a bad deal if you are in the market.

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https://coltrebates.pmcprograms.com/

CDNN has them in stock for $799 and Buds has them for $804 with free shipping!
 
Saw this offer a week or so ago and my first thought was uh-oh 1911 sales have dipped, fallen, crashed, hit a bump, slid or just generally slow now.

Six months ago, a LGS I frequent couldn't keep enough Colt 1911s in stock. Now, they sit.

I suspect the same has happened to quite a few 1911 makers.
 
Saw this offer a week or so ago and my first thought was uh-oh 1911 sales have dipped, fallen, crashed, hit a bump, slid or just generally slow now.

Six months ago, a LGS I frequent couldn't keep enough Colt 1911s in stock. Now, they sit.

I suspect the same has happened to quite a few 1911 makers.
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This is true to some extent. 6 months ago people were paying $700 for the NIB Rugers. The other day I saw a GB auction end for a LNIB for $456.

It is not just 1911s it is guns across the board right now. Things are slowing down from the rapid pace of the last few years. All the hysteria buying seems to be over and now things are getting back to normal.

If I were in the market for a base gun I would pick one up but at this point I am set with the Colts in the stable.
 
It is not just 1911s it is guns across the board right now. Things are slowing down from the rapid pace of the last few years. All the hysteria buying seems to be over and now things are getting back to normal.
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I'd say things have already slowed down now. People bought themselves crazy after Sandy Hook. Now that time has passed and anti-gun legislation seems off the table, it's like a library out there. Smaller dealers I know are having to cut prices to levels I haven't seen since before '08 to get sales. Even the bigger dealers have inventory they're desperate to move. Now is the time to buy if you can, though the used market is a bear right now.
 
Now is the time to buy if you can, though the used market is a bear right now.
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I have had good luck in the used market over the last 6 months. I have picked up the following:

S&W 19-3
S&W 28-2
Walther PPQ M1
CZ 75B

All at good prices. I would say 3 of the 4 were excellent deals. I just about stole the PPQ.

Even passed on a LNIB P227 SAS and the funshow that the guy wanted $650 for. Deals are out there just have to have the cash to buy them when they come up.
 
WVsig said:
I have had good luck in the used market over the last 6 months. I have picked up the following:

S&W 19-3
S&W 28-2
Walther PPQ M1
CZ 75B

All at good prices. I would say 3 of the 4 were excellent deals. I just about stole the PPQ.

Even passed on a LNIB P227 SAS and the funshow that the guy wanted $650 for. Deals are out there just have to have the cash to buy them when they come up.
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I meant selling on the used market, not buying on it.
 
I meant selling on the used market, not buying on it.
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Yes I am feeling that its a buyers market. People over spent during the hysteria! They now need cash more than they need the guns. The worse part about it is that there was so much gouging of new gun owners after Sandy Hook. People were scared into buy it now or they will be gone and too many dealers took advantage of people.

I am just glad to see ammo coming back to earth. ;)
 
I am just glad to see ammo coming back to earth.
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Me too!

And thanks for this. I really want a 1911 (haven't had one in a year or so, blasphemy I know) for the collection and I figure if it's just going to be one why not a Colt.
 
Colt is currently making some of the best 1911s they have ever made IMHO. They hit or miss days of the old machinery are gone. The only complaint I have about them these days is you can slice bread with some of the edges on the pistol but they wear in time with use or a little bit of elbow grease.
 
You are all correct, I believe. I should have said not just Colt.

I've noticed a number of different decent promotions from various
makers.
 
People are trying to move the metal. IIRC both Ruger and S&W have predicted a huge slow down for 2015. Warning stock holders that the up coming year will be worse and 2014 was not good for them. Both have lost about 30% in stock value.

Just today Ruger announced some scary numbers.

Net income fell 76 percent to $6.78 million, or 34 cents a diluted share, from $28.7 million, or $1.44 a year earlier, the Southport, Connecticut-based company said in a statement. Analysts had estimated 94 cents, the average of three estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales dropped 42 percent to $98.3 million missing the average estimate of $143 million.
 
I am overjoyed at the market slowing down right now. I am one month in to a new job that pays pretty well. I am going to snipe some pretty darn good deals the next year or two.

I'm not worried about the downtick. The market has been artificially insane for much of the past 6 years. It's good for it to get back calmed down. The rush was great for getting a few more tens of millions of firearms into peoples' hands, but I'm happy paying reasonable prices and finding things in stock again.
 
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