I have only seen 2 in recent years and they were both in that range and both sold relatively quickly.

 

Camster, here are recently completed Gobroker auctions for 9422 22lr:

Just for reference

1973 was a good year. I was hatched that year.

 

I was hatched that year.

So you are a chicken. 😅

 

does it look better than this 1972, if yes then $1000 . Needs to ne high polished blue , and perfect.

 

Very hard to find any 94/22 in our area for less than 1k, now, and they don't come up for sale very often.

 

So I ran over to my LGS. It’s a hopping little place. Waited my turn for one of five clerks to be free.
Got my paws and peepers on the gun. Just beautiful.Like many a gun here in suburban NY, looked virtually unused. I’d say the metal was perfect. Couple of small handling marks that wouldn’t bother a perfectionist like me-after all, it’s 52 years old. HOWEVER, one small area on the butt stock had a concentrated area of nicks. Appeared almost like someone had put a dozen thumb tacks into it. Unnatural wear.
I couldn’t live with that, and I’m not making excuses for such a thing on the day that I want to move it along.
My Benjies stayed in my pocket.

 

Prolly to put a pony tail on it . Yeah , for $1000 , it should be nigh on perfect, I used to have a stock guy who could fix stuff like that, and get out all the dents and small scratches. He worked at the Cabellas, so i would buy from the library and hand it to him in the parking lot , a week later we would reverse the process , 1/2 the time id be handing him another gun. But alas , he is gone from the world, hope he is enjoying the afterlife.

 

My Winchester 9422XTR was made in 1992. I bought it at my local pawn shop. It had the box and paperwork and could easily as passed for unfired, but I knew that it had been. I honestly can't remember exactly when I bought it, but I'm gonna guess around 2000 give or take for $650 I think. I have shot it, but not much, I'm gonna guess maybe 300 rounds and except for a little blue wear on the side of the bolt it pretty much looks like new. I can't say a price that I would part with it for because I have no intention of selling it.

 

Mine looks similar to yours, but mine is not a XTR. It was made in 1995. and have put a few thousand rounds through it.

 

If you search completed auctions on Gunbroker recently lowest I saw for nice 9422 was $609 with average in the $850

 

I paid 1800 for a 9422 25th anniversary edition that the collector claimed was never fired. Received it with orig box and papers. The rifle was in mint condition. The bore was filthy which made me pause. But I sighted it and shot it and it was very accurate.
From what I have seen a special edition mint condition with original box/paper seems to be going for anywhere from 1500 to 2500. It doesn't seem unreasonable that a mint to excellent condition 9422 would go for 1000. But if cosmetics aren't important, you should be able to do a lot better.

 

Oops. forgot to say that it would not be unreasonable that a regular (not a special edition) mint to excellent condition would be 1000.

 

Don’t pole vault over mouse turds on price. Buy the gun, not the deal. A very nice gun even at market or above will prove a value above its price in joy of shooting and ownership. And soon it will seem like a bargain.

if you like it, want it and have the dough, buy it. By the same token, do not buy because of a deal a gun you aren’t excited about. Too many old guys wind up with hoards that become a burden without the afore mentioned joy.

And you can take this and most advice on this subject down to Starbucks with $5 and buy a cup of coffee (maybe).

 

Just adding some chatter here. I talk quite a bit about the local pawn shop we had that I bought from quite often. I was friends with the owner and he was in business for over 30 years and he would buy guns for himself that he knew would later bring good money and he considered that as his own 401K. He really liked Winchester lever action rifles and by the time he retired he must have owned a dozen 9422's or more. Some of them were high grade special releases. I spoke to him several years after he retired and I asked about his 9422 rifles and he told me that he had sold all of them. I really regretted not trying to buy on of them.

 

I own 2 Model 9422s one full size chambered in 22 LR and the other a Trapper in 22 WMR. These were expensive rifles to manufacture and have an interesting locking mechanism. Here's an old YouTube video shooting my Trapper.

 

I recently bought a 1973 Model 9422M off Gunbroker, manufactured in 1973 (also the year I was born) and was the successful bidder ar $860. To my surprise, it was in even better condition than I anticipated and looks to have been fired very little with all the bluing still intact at the muzzle. I cleaned up the stock and waxed it, cleaned the gun and oiled and wiped it down but that was it. I was happy to finally get one in this condition, from this vintage, back in my hands. Next one will be a .22lr of the same vintage hopefully. I did add a saddle ring and a large loop lever which was a quick change and I still have all the original pieces if I ever decide to switch it back.

 

Nice