RICO, SASS #9760LIFE Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Coyote Cap's website says no more '87's are going to be imported. Anyone else heard anything about this? I was checking for prices and (thinking of selling mine) saw the info (in red) on Cap's website. I can't find any for sale anywhere else either. None on Gunsamerica / gunbroker / auction arms. IAC's website doesn't list them anymore nor does EMF's. Any info out there and what are they selling for? Thanks, RICO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The rumors are true. I recently bought the last one on the entire Interweb. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=235800331 I worked out a deal for free shipping, so 't'were $400, shipped and $20 for the transfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 IAC hasn't imported them for quite a while. Looks like the guns and parts will be in short supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Between the 87's and the hammered doubles disappearing from retail sales, it's making it harder and harder to get outfitted fer shootin' classic cowboy! Grrrrrrrrr! Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Gregg Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 It'd sure be great to be able to make them here in the USA or Canada anyhow. I wonder how much it would cost to backwards engineer them and build them from quality materials. I hate importing anything from Comm China. Mustang Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Adams 3674 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 It'd sure be great to be able to make them here in the USA or Canada anyhow. I wonder how much it would cost to backwards engineer them and build them from quality materials. I hate importing anything from Comm China. Mustang Gregg Oh about $400 bucks. That's seems to be what the "Comm China" guns, are going for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Red OToole, #48939 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The owner of IAC is a regular customer and he has confirmed that they are no longer importing '87 shotguns. He said they wasn't enough demand to continue importing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jittery Jim Jonah, SASS #64913L Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The owner of IAC is a regular customer and he has confirmed that they are no longer importing '87 shotguns. He said they wasn't enough demand to continue importing them. Ya can thank the greediness of the Chinese for this.... If they had stuck with their original commitment with Coyote Cap they would be still coming in, and there would be a waiting list for them.... The makers of these guns went outside their contract with him, made them at lesser standards, sold the unaccepted guns outside their contract, and then cut off the contract and sold them to whomever would taken them..... If ya can get one that went through Coyote Cap you will be happy with the shotgun, otherwise ya take yer chances... Me thinks demand dried up when the market was exposed to the lesser quality guns. I got mine and I am happy with it..... Signed by Cap himself. JJJ-D :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Dog, SASS #20401 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The Chinese may be inscruable and greedy but they are also quite pragmatic. The Chinese 87s and mebbeso the 97s as well are dead and gone. The reason is they are harder to make than the 870 and 37 knock-offs they are now flooding our market with. Look at it from the factory owner's perspective. They can either make a relatively few hard-to-make cowboy type shotguns or a whole bunch of easier to manufacture modern "defense" and hunting pump clones. Which is better for the bottom line? Which are you gonna go with making? I am purdy shure the IAC/Norinco 87s and probably their 97s are now things of the past. What I don't know is what about the other 2 Chinese 97 sources. Anybody know if the formerly-TTN-now-Cimarron 97 is still gonna be imported or not? As for the third 97, the Kuandian/Century International Arms, well we can only hope that skunk is dead and buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughneck Rod Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 i called IAC the other day to order some 97s and they said there isnt anymore and there will not be anymore. they said they wont be importing anymore shotguns because there wasnt enough of a demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICO, SASS #9760LIFE Posted July 18, 2011 Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 Well I guess that pretty much answers my question. Guess I'll hold on to my '87 for a while, it may get valuable....... Of course there is always the Chippa(sp?)'87 but then they're already pricey. Thanks for the responses, RICO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 This is too bad. The IAC guns were pretty good. I've got one of the 97 Trench Guns and a 93/97. Both well made shotguns. I don't have a "regular" 97, I've got 2 real Winchesters, and I just found an original 87 for a good price. Even so, I was planning to pick up a repro 87 so I could get one with a short barrel. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. John Campbell, SASS #58165 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I ordered another IAC 97 for myself, figure it can't hurt to have a spare shotgun for this sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Enuff Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Still sick about it. The IAC 97W was nearing perfect out of the box. I really hope the production plans for the 09xxxx guns aren't lost forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castalia,SASS#18915 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 The 1887 and 1897 IAC guns are still out there new in the box. I just bought a NIB 1887 at a local gun shop. This last weekend I saw one NIB at a gun show. The asking price was $400.00. Also at the gun show I saw two 1897 NIB. The asking price was $375.00 each. Good luck in your search. Castalia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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