...Gunbroker is not the best place to get a deal on hard to find stuff.
So true! Also an auction where the reserve is not met tells you nothing of the guns real value. There were a couple of bids, but those bids were a thousand dollars less that the "buy it now" price. Could have even been buddies biding to prop up the apparent value.
The only good way to get a real clue about the value of a gun from an auction is if the gun actually sells. Even then, there could have been to rich idiots bidding!