Final Prices: RIA June 2016 Regional
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Now that the June 2016 Regional auction at Rock Island Auction Company is complete, we can take a look at the final prices realized for each of the guns that I looked at in videos. Most of the guns in this auction were sold in batches, so the prices don't generally reflect the value of individual guns in the videos. However, there were some really good deals to be had in this sale...
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