I figure that someone someday will either:

1) Shoot it after my heirs sell it

2) Turn it in to a "gun buy-back" program

3) Neglect its care and allow it to deteriorate

4)...etc., etc., etc....

I want the pleasure of shooting a really fine gun--that's what it was made for. We're in the ground a long, long time--might as well be me or my kids who shoot the damn thing! If it loses a few bucks in value, well, so be it.

Some good advice I was given:

"Never love anything that can't love you back"

Tim