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Don't buy another pistol, rifle or shotgun without seeing this first. Darrell Holland teaches you how to judge finish and condition ... what adds value and what detracts ... how to assess the mechanical condition of different action types ... what to look for and what to avoid. Save money and protect yourself from getting burned! Ideal for the novice shooter and collector.
(about 120 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on February 15, 2005 in Firearms::General and Firearms::Marksmanship.
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Holland does a pretty good job of showing you how to perform a basic evaluation of rifles, shotguns, semi-auto pistols and revolvers. There is some repetition, and in some cases Holland does more disassembly of a rifle than most of us would try at a gun show. But the video quality is good and most of the information is useful.
I'm not sure who the intended audience of this video is...which is a polite way of saying the piece is a bit unfocused. I suspect a beginner in firearms would be lost when the instructor begins to take down firearms. He doesn't strip pieces further than I would feel comfortable doing in a gun shop where I am known, but I can't see myself at a gun show or a strange shope gayly field stripping a piece...perhaps that just means I'm a wuss. More importantly, what I had hoped for in this video is just not there,i.e., an explanation and demonstration of just what is meant by the various percentage gradings. It's all well and good to say that that one buy only a pieces that are in 85-100% condition, but what does that mean? I've read several of the descriptions of grading and looked at any number of pictures, but because I don't handle used guns every day, I'm really just guessing. I'd hoped this video would address that...the title suggests it does. But it doesn't.
