A cool suprise

[amb5500c]

After fighting a building fire last night from about 10:00 p.m. until about 03:00 a.m. I was plum tuckered out. I slept until the shift change alarm went off at 07:00 a.m. and went home and back to bed. At about 10:30 a.m. my wife woke me up saying that there was a strange truck in the driveway. It turned out to be the brother of my recently deceased neighbor from down the road. He lives a couple of hundred miles from here and comes by about once a month to check on his brother's place until it sells. I have only knew this man from a few chance meetings during his short visits to check up on the place. On one of his visits he had seen me shooting an air rifle and we struck up a conversation about it. Well now he is in my driveway telling me that he has something that I might be interested in. He had found his brother's Benjamin air rifle and he had no use for it. He showed it to me and asked if I wanted to make him an offer for it. I didn't feel right about it, but after talking for several minutes I had a better idea of what he would consider fair. I offered him $60 and he was happy. So now I have a real nice Benjamin 342 to add to my growing collection. Its fully functional and shoots pretty good. I've only shot it a couple of times so far, but it has a lot of promise.
Richard

[Lil Sis]

Cool Nice gun.

[dk1677]

Looks like a nice deal!

[Toolmaker]

 That was a good deal on a great Benji!

[Mo.sniper342]

good to see her go to a good home! I've had mine for over 30 years It really likes the jsb's. ( we call mine the "meat stick" ) it is impossible to tell how many rabbits sqirrells and quail that rifle has taken.

[hw77grey]

man thats a great suprise!

[aack73]

good thing you got some sleep night before

[cole5169]

Nice add

Love it when stuff like that happens.  About 10 years ago, an elderly neighbor ambled over and asked me if I'd like to buy his "old pellet gun".  He'd bought it more than 20 years before and put it away because he just wasn't into it.  He knew I was an enthusiastic airgunner, and figured I might be willing to drop "$10 or so" on his "piece o' old junk", as he called it.

It was a like-new-in-box Crosman 600, with less than 100 shots through it.
I told him I would LOOOOOVE to buy it, but I didn't have the $200 it was (easily) worth.  That dropped his jaw (I thought his dentures might fall out for a moment...)
I showed him how to post it on the old American Airguns Classifieds and he sold it in less than 2 days.

[ncpackrat]

looks good Richard know you will enjoy it,Ernie

[.22 Varmint]

Wow, that gun is treasure for sure. Can't wait to see how she shoots! 

Andrew 

[z28rod]

cole5169 your a good man for not taking advantage of your elderly neighbor , and amb5500c , You  should fix the benji up and shoot her allot, i bet the deceased guy would love it that you are enjoying his old benji....