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I think collecting should always be … you should always buy the best your money can afford. Buy low end if that is all you can afford, but buy authentic. The older guns are only going to increase in value if you take care of them. Eventually you’ll move out of the low end, maybe after buying two or three, and be able to trade up to a more valuable gun.

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Ed:

You take John Kopec [phone 532-222-4440; “U.S. Cavalry and Artillery Authentication Service”] who does letters on Single Action Army military guns – well, people like his letters because he wrote the book and he is constantly studying this gun. People like to be able to say, “Kopec said there was nothing wrong with this gun or to watch for such and such ….” Because most of the military guns have gone up in value quite drastically, you want to make sure that what you bought, or are just thinking about buying, is authentic and not something put together. Kopec wrote the book on the Single Action Army military guns2 and there isn’t anyone out there who is a lot more knowledgeable about the subject than him.