I really do have some rifles I won't sell...for instance my .338, my 300 H&H, my 470 searcy, and some family guns...Well lets say I won't sell the family guns, at least I don't think I would, I might sell the 338, 300 or well no not the .470, at least not unless the price was right, but I wouldn't want to...

I don't know, maybe I am just a gun whore, and would sell anything but my rope hores, unless the price was right...

I need help!

Join the club... all of mine are "for sale" at all times. Lifes short, I encourage you to own, enjoy and shoot as many guns as you can - this sometimes requires selling & trading.

The other rule when selling/trading is to make sure you're "trading up."

Family guns can't be replaced, and their sentimental value vastly outweighs their dollar value.

Whenever I come to the realization a gun is gathering dust, has lost the allure of wanting to have that chambering, and funds and space is needed for something I gotta try, the old mare is put out to pasture.

I hate selling any of my guns because at some point I always regret it. But, my Dad always said "Never fall in love with anything you own.", and I try to live by it.

There are a few sentimental things (including guns) that I would never sell...probably never, anyway.

Cheers,
Canuck

You see Cannuck, its the "probably never" with emphasis on the "probably" that kills us!

A gun whore is a gun whore, once a gun whore always a gun whore...

The finest of guns loose their appeal in time and I find it necessary to move on to greener pastures...

I have been eyeing my Brno Mod 21 in 9.3x62, as it has been a darling much too long and the caliber, as wonderful as it is, has lost its appeal to me..I have used it extensively and as well as its served me, I find it boring, so on to the latest addiction, the 10.75x68, it has my full attention these days, that should keep me intertained for the next year of so, MAYBE!

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Originally posted by Paul H:
Family guns can't be replaced, and their sentimental value vastly outweighs their dollar value.

I agree, mostly, but my father (from as early as I can remember) always dreamed of owning a Double Rifle. Well, his life ended sooner than it should have and he never got to own one.

Since then, I've owned a few different DRs, and although my father left me with some nice guns, I know that he would have traded everyone of them to have owned a DR, and quite frankly, if the deal ever comes along - I'll do exactly that, and it'll be his gun. Kinda falls into the theory that all parents want better for their kids than they had, and i believe if he were standing here - he'd say "let 'em all go and get that double before the man changes his mind!"

Now, as for the guns I'll leave my kids, well - they're a hellofa lot nicer guns than anyone ever left me - and I've had to do a lot of finageling to get them - those little sh*ts better never let them go... UNLESS, of course, they can "Trade Up"

Every time I think I'm attached to a rifle, something else comes along and they all seem to be fair game, except of course for the one rifle I inherited from my father. That one will never be for sale -- nor will the other ones for that matter -- well maybe.....damn you Ray, maybe you're right. I could be a gun whore.

I really thing that everything is for sale in America.To many people with more money then brains.Every gun that I have sold I have regret.That dont mean that I will never sell another.Over the 30 years that I have owned guns my taste have changed several times in what I shoot and buy.

I'm always trading and building guns, that's what keeps it interesting. I've got a few I'll never sell, but I don't miss many I have sold, even some family guns.

All of mine for sale, but some of them, Bill Gates would have trouble affording.

Brent

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
A gun whore is a gun whore, once a gun whore always a gun whore...

MAYBE!

You gotta keep'em all Ray! What happened to that old .25-35 Winchester 94 carbine you killed your first deer with? Man, I have wanted one of those in .25-35 for 50 years I think! Now I see they're out again!

Talked to an old buddy the other day I hadn't spoke to in a quarter century.... Somewhere in the conversation he says: "You know, I still have that Model 94 Carbine .38-55 you sold me 35 years ago.

I quickly said, "Yah want to sell it back?"

I could feel the smile over the phone...

You just have to keep'em all I think! Some you'll never get back.......

BigRx

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I really think that everything is for sale in America.

Apparantly Nebraska is not part of America....

My dad left me a 20 gauge Winchester 101 that he bought new in I think 1967 when he was in graduate school. 28" barrels, modified and full. Great balance. He and I both drilled a lot of pheasant and a couple piles of ducks with it over thirty plus years. A few years ago I had the wood finish stripped, the gouges steamed up and/or filled and the woood refinished like new. I went into the local gun store to show it off. Gary said "that is a beautiful family heirloom, but I have another customer who wants a 20 gauge 101 in the worst way." I said "how worst?" I threw in a pistol and a few more bucks and walked out with a Browning Hunter 525 in 20 gauge a half hour later. He would have approved. He was practical, as was grandpa before him.
Any twinges of regret? A few. The new owner is using it a lot more than I was in recent years, and she just loves it. I use the new Browning a lot.

lawndart

BigRX,
I gave that old gun to my son, that way it won't get traded...They took my service guns that had some sentimental value or history, whatever you call it..Didn't even ask, said they had'em and now I couldn't sell them, good move on their part, they ment nothing to me but bad memories..

I do keep all the family hand me down guns like my grandfathers Texas ranger colt .45 LC, M-92 serial number 150 and 94 SRC..Money couldn't buy them and they will go to my grandsons and children..My double to Pierre.

The rest are fair game!!

baboon - Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon - what do I win?

I to have gone through a great many guns, that where the right one at the time ,but lost their luster after a few years. You always seem to find something better that cathes your eye. I think its the boy in all of us. Most of us wish we would have held on to the ???? that we traded for the one we sold to a buddy who had a ?? because we knew we could trade it to Fred for his ???. Sound familiar?? Charlie

I wonder if the selling thing comes with age?? I don't intend to offend anyone, but I can't tell you how many guns I've bought from "older" guys who say something like "I've had this gun for so many years and I'm not doing anything with it"

I sure hope my 14 month old son enjoys guns because he will inherit a bunch of them.

I'm going through it now... again. I have a custom .300 Jarrett I had built on the action from my first center fire. I bought it when I was 15. The barrel is starting to go and it only shoots 1.5" now. I am thinking mod 70 controlled feed for AK. Do I unload my old rifle or rebarrel? I think I see a Lilja .338 barrel in my future. Most of my trading has been in the interest of upgrading. I did trade a Colt Woodsman Matchtarget .22 pistol I wish I still had, and a custom varmint rifle I sold to my brothers' brother-in-law. After 19 years he still has the rifle and I have finally given up asking.

ever since pre-teen have been curious abt almost all guns. i'd rather have 10 good guns for one year each for 10 years than 1 gun for 10 straight years. how dull is that. the only way to really know abt them is to have them and use them. and since i seem to have a dearth of friends who'll let me take theirs and keep them 6 mos to a year, i trade one for another, learn all i can abt it, and move on. besides, excepting only the real high end $$ guns, they're cheaper now than they've ever been in my life relative to the economy. are a few sentimental ones, gifts from my father, etc but that's different. otherwise they can all be replaced.

It never ceases to amaze me how someone could sell their father's or grandfather's old gun that was left to them as a family heirloom. Maybe I'm just blessed from a financial perspective, but, as a "for instance", I have my grandfather's 70 year-old Model 12 Winchester, and I've seen from the posts what most of you guys do for money, but I'll challenge anyone to come up with enough cash to make me part with that gun. It'll never happen ...... the memories mean too much to me. Money's just not worth it.

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Frank Beller: It never ceases to amaze me how someone could sell their father's or grandfather's old gun that was left to them as a family heirloom.

No problem at all. Between my father and his father, I inherited about 30 guns, many un-noteworthy pieces. Couldn't keep it all. I did keep the prewar Colts, the 1911 my father carried in Okinawa, my greatgrandfather's Marlin 32-20, his M12 skeet gun, the M70 my other grandfather bought for me in 1960 when I turned 13, and a couple other nice pieces, so I still have plenty for old times sake.

i don't get your premise as looking back over all the posts on this thread seems to be 100% unanimous that we all keep those of sentimental value which belonged to parents, grandparents, etc.

precisely whom are you accusing of putting $$'s ahead of sentiment? i don't read that any of us did.