Score!

[JDHasty]

Been hunting this book for quite a few years.  It is pretty hard to find one under a couple hundred bucks. 

[HighlandLofts]

It pays to keep looking, Enjoy your new book. I assume you bought it for $36

[JDHasty]

I did and crazy enough I did not find it miss posted with a wrong spelling or some such.  I thought I would finally pick it up at a boot sale and never on eBay.  But then again I lucked onto both Godfrey loading manuals for $5/each a month ago the same way.  Normally when these scarcities show up it is Katie bar the door once the bidding starts. 

I am still on the lookout for Vol. 2 of this gem.  I had both, but gave them away a few years back.  Gotta stop doing that!  Or maybe not, I have the memories of giving some unobtainable item and see a face light up like nothing you have ever seen. 

I have a friend that rec'd all the pre-Varmint Hunter Magazine plus the first couple years of the slicked up magazine to a friend and that was twenty plus years ago and they are his prized possessions.  He thought he would never get the first few issues of the slicked up issues and when they came with ten years of the newsprint earlier issues from the International Varmint Hunter's Club that had articles by Phil Marquardt and people like that he about lost his mind.     

[high country]

I felt that way when I bought Harold Vaughn's, "Rifle Accuracy Facts"......I paid 10x as much and was happy to get my hands on it.

[JDHasty]

I have a list right next to my computer and very so often just take a gander to see what is out there.  I have books that never change hands for under $600 if the seller knows what they have and it is when the seller is happy to get $5 or them we both are happy. 

The hound hunting books are real killers.  I bought TIGRERO by Sasha Siemel perfect w/perfect dist jacket for a buck and today if you want one... best of luck.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tigrero-by-Sasha-Siemel-First-Paperback-Edition-Very-Good-Condition-/151994497664?hash=item236393fa80:g:yNQAAOSwFqJWppwm

$120 abridged paperback. 

I have an original Hunting the Elephant in Africa by Stigand and my mother had it rebound in leather because I had worn out the jacket re-reading it.  $2k for an original even rebound is what I have been offered in trade value from a "Safari Club guy" who thinks he needs it and a Capstick series reprint is north of $100.  But the reprint lacks the fold out that the original has.  If some of the optics he had on the table were something I could not live without it would have been his. 

I remember paying about $20 for it about the time I graduated high school and my mother darn near feinted.  But I was obsessed with reading "golden age" safari books back then and that was before thy were reprinted. 

I only wish I had been even more obsessed back then and had ponied up the asking price of ~ $50 for others that I have given up all hope of ever owning. 

In the intervening years I have been flat on my butt broke, but never one time have I considered swapping any of this treasure for ready cash.  I might give them, and have.  But selling any of them is out of the question. 

[high country]

You have good taste in this ever evolving modular synthetic times...

[HighlandLofts]

You need to keep checking in and sooner or later you'll find a buy.
The same with older vintage firearms, I make weekly some times a couple of trips a week to the pawn shops, stores with a used gun racks.
I picked up some sweet deals through the years, I picked up a rare Remington Model 10, 22 sing750 the next day then went outnd sold it for $750 the next day then went out and bought a really nice Smith&Wesson 586 with two barrels for that $750. This gun is PRISTINE.


I'm going to start reloading here shortly and picked up most of my equipment from guys on this forum.
Some I bought on E-Bay if the price was right.
I've been stocking up on reloading books just to read their perspective on reloading and for the different powder, projectile data.

Know what you want and wait for the deal that you can't pass up.