There's a bit of nuance to it. Everyone interprets data differently, but based upon recent sales I keep track of both domestically at retail, the auctions here, in the UK, and the EU, here's my analysis:
On used and vintage rifles:
450-400 - record setting prices
404 Jeff - record setting prices
470NE and 500NE - Stable prices
500 Jeff - record setting prices
505 Gibbs - stable prices
Small bore doubles - record setting prices
English small bore magazine rifles from London makers- record setting prices
Smallbore 410 and 28 gauge best guns are up
By make:
Heyms are record setting prices
Dakotas are record setting prices
English doubles are record setting prices
Gibbs Farquarson and Similar single shots are record setting prices
Westley Richards are way up
Hollands are stable
Griffin & Howe rifles in less common smallbore calibers are up
CZ customs are up
Storied American pre-war customs other than G&H are stable to down
Prices are down on the following:
BPE doubles are down
Brownings are down
450NE, 475 No 2, 465NE are down
Drillings are way down
Combination guns are way down
Cape guns are nearly unsaleable
Rimless largebore double rifles are way down
Custom/bespoke R93s and R8s (steel receivers heavy embellishment) are down
Vierlings are way down
Ferlachs are down (except for record setting prices on Borovniks in UK/EU)
375HH is slightly down
Spanish shotgun prices are in the toilet
12 bore shotgun prices are slightly down
American parker, fox, and lefever guns are down
American custom rifles are down considerably
360NE rifles are up
By features:
Mauser actions are stable or up
Push feed best guns are way down
Single trigger large bore double rifles are in the toilet
Over/Under largebore double rifles are also in the toilet
Large bore extractor double rifles are down
7x57 / 275 Rigby is up
250-3000 and 257 roberts is up
6.5x54 and 6.5x55 is up
Largebore metric rifles are down
