About 5 more years.

[Tom K]

Looking at the asking prices for S&Ws I figure 5 more years and I sell them all, buy an island and retire.

Stop looking at the asking prices and concentrate on actual, average selling prices. Not the crazy one-off bidding war highs, or the pawnshop-doesn't-know-a-Heavy-Duty-from-a-Model-10 lows. Granted prices are still going up, but perhaps not as drastically as we might think. Except Pythons - those are truly nuts.

And who wants a damn island anyway?

 

[GF]

I wonder if the "new" breed of high payin' gunowners would frequent internet forums to talk about the different types & changes that make up the history of their new hobby?

I used to be a coin collector of sorts, subscribbed to magazines and went to shows.
When the price of gold and silver trumped the value of all but the rarest of coins everybody jumped in and made coin collecting about weight and not knowledge, I got out.

You gotta' know when to get out and SP may be right, 5 years or less. Everybodys gun collection is gonna' sell. No exceptions.

A standard grave is 2 1/2 feet wide by 8 feet long, according to the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association.

GF

 

[JSW]

I sure miss the days of $125 model 10's and j frames for under $300.

I do to! The main reason I got into collecting old S&Ws was because they were such a high quality item at reasonable prices. Actually, all those years they were undervalued. I guess those times are gone for good!

 

[Old TexMex]

I'm not disappointed in my purchases in the last ten years, because the values have gone way past what I paid, especially on the ones I paid what I thought was too much. Very few of mine would sell to an historical collector, and what happens to the value of a "shooter grade" when the population of "shooters" drops off, through attrition ( death) and restriction? It becomes a buyers market, I rekon. And a buyrs market means falling prices and falling knives.

 

[pmhayden]

A full tank of gas for my Ford Ranger cost me $61 yesterday. (Was running on fumes.) But 8 tanks of gas would buy me a decent used firearm. As would 100 fancy Starbucks coffees, or 5 Nordstrom dress shirts, or one iPad. Proportionally, firearms are still pretty reasonable. Especially S&W revolvers, which have been undervalued, given their quality.

I don't make a lot of money, but if you work, you can get what you want with budgeting, and used firearms hold their value. Just don't go to Starbucks.