Suncoast440 wrote:
I have a 1969 CIL bench-rest with Anshultz target sights. I never shot it much but it is very very accurate. Had it since new. I’ve had a few friends ask to buy it $1500+. I don’t want to rip someone off. Does anyone have an idea as to value? I though I may buy another PCP if I sell it. So Im Motivated.
A little more information is needed.
Presumably it's a .22LR. The Anschutz target sights suggests a single shot Anschutz made rifle. CIL imported a number of different Anschutz models in the 1960's and 1970's. Several of them are shown above by sillymike. These rifles use the 64 action, which was not Anschutz's top-of-the-line action. The best at that time was the 54 match action. Some of the 54 models are indeed worth well over a $1000 in today's market.
Neither of the single shot "target" rifles shown above -- the CIL Anschutz 180 and the CIL Anschutz 190 -- are "benchrest" models and neither are particularly expensive. The 180 typically goes for $500 to $600, while the 190 goes for $100 to $200 more.
Anschutz rifles that had factory benchrest stocks, with flat nearly three-iinch-wide forearms, were not available until the 1990's, and these were based on the 2013 action, itself a variation of the venerable 54 match action. These rifles easily sell for $1500 and more.
If you have a 1960's single shot CIL-marked Anschutz, it will say Anschutz on the left side of the receiver and it will say it's made in Germany. It will be a 64 action, unless it's a less desirable Flobert action CIL imported Anschutz . If it's a CIL-branded Anschutz, there will almost certainly be a model number on the top of the receiver in front of the loading port. Unlike Savage in the U.S., which also imported Anschutts rifles in the 1960's and 1970's (perhaps even in the early 1980's), CIL didn't import any Match 54 action single shot Anschutz rifles.