I've been thinning, still to many AK's & AR's, hunting rifles. It's rough, but at 71 & no family interest, some need to go. The market is slow on some, still strong on others. It's not easy. Best to get fair value now, because family won't. Also best to do it slow.Reloading & ammo are a real big problem for family, but I just can't let go yet. Its been good. I've been collecting since I was 9. Tables were $7, people would ask if I was here with my dad, Yep. Go ahead and take the hand gun. M1 Carbines were $65. Dad said pick out a Winchester. They were stacked 3 ft tall on the table. We come, we go. Best to enjoy the moment.
Gun show dilemma
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Nobody said you have to come home with more than you left with. Less you like more or more you like more, either way you are winning LOL. Might even give it some thought as a way for folks who wouldn't normally go to a show to interact in a relaxing environment. Another option would be to combine it with a no questions asked buyback for $100, something they have been doing around here anyway.
I have a "bunch" of guns. They are all shooters, not a safe Queen in the bunch. I know I should cull the herd but I just can't bring myself to do it. My son said what are your wishes. Take your pick. The rest can be divided between the family. Anything left over sell. A lot of shooters in the family. The wife just tolerates my addiction and she is taken care of. So money isn't an issue.
rpv-ak
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I'm 69 y/o and I'm still adding to my collection. I'll continue going to gun shows/shops until someone takes my truck keys away or I can't walk to a bus stop. When I'm gone, regardless how much I own, it won't be my problem.
Navy vet
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Wife asked, when is enough gun? One more.There is, and you're here...Welcome......Ben
My wife calls me a "gunaholic" a badge I wear proudly
I once was in a gunshop and the phone on the wall behind the counter rang. After a breif conversation the clerk handed the phone to me and said "it's for you". I answered and found it to be a good friend who owned a car dealearship and was also a class three dealer.
As I closed the conversation I said, by the way, how did you know where to find me (this was long before cell phones) and he said: "Well if you were an alcoholic I would have called all the bars in town, since you are a gun nut I started calling the gun shops - this one was the second"
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I too have thought about selling off some of my guns, especially now that I am 76 and will probably not even look at, let alone shoot most of them anymore. There is a problem though! The price of any "quality" gun of yesteryear has now gone through the roof and once I sell what I have I could never afford to get them back again. The $100 Mil-Surp days are long gone and prices now are into the stratosphere. Even commercial older blued steel and walnut guns of yesteryear now command a King's ransom to acquire. I suppose that says something about the guns currently being made. Just one example of many, an original Colt Python once sold for $260, now they have hit $3,000 plus and climbing daily, putting them way out of the range of ordinary working people.
Prices have become so bizarre that many internet Gun Dealers are now trying to entice people to buy by offering them financing just like when one buys a car and then takes years to pay it off, prices have gotten that crazy on guns too.
Prices have become so bizarre that many internet Gun Dealers are now trying to entice people to buy by offering them financing just like when one buys a car and then takes years to pay it off, prices have gotten that crazy on guns too.
"SELL".....is a FOUR LETTER WORD.....forget you ever said it!
THE PILGRIM
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Know a Dude- he built an underground bunker - vault to store his goodies.
He has an older construction house built on stem walls.
So he and a couple of laborers actually dug the hole under his house, put in rebar , forms and poured concrete.
Then cut a hole in a hallway, installed a circular staircase, and a surplus bank vault door.
I don't blame you if you don't believe me.
If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it either!
He has an older construction house built on stem walls.
So he and a couple of laborers actually dug the hole under his house, put in rebar , forms and poured concrete.
Then cut a hole in a hallway, installed a circular staircase, and a surplus bank vault door.
I don't blame you if you don't believe me.
If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it either!
rpv-ak
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Why the need to thin the "herd"? Follow your instincts and keep them all unless you really need the cash. I still mourn selling my 3" 29-3 I bought way back in the early 1980's. I'm keeping every one and letting my son deal with them when I pass—unless I can figure out a way to take them with me…
Faulkner
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". . . letting my son deal with them when I pass." Makes me cringe to read that.
I've told this story before but it's worth repeating here. My father in law was a avid golfer. Unfortunately, he passed when my wife and I were in our early 20's and had not been married long. He had no sons and he left all his golfing stuff to me, and I hate golf. He had several very expensive sets of clubs in high dollar golf bags, a golf cart, and all kinds of accessories and shoes and gloves and cases of balls and I don't know what all.
And it was up to me to deal with it. When I went and looked at all that stuff, I just wanted to load it up in my pickup truck and haul it to the dump, but I didn't want to be too disrespectful either. I ended up calling some of my college buddies who were golfers to come look at it and make me an offer. They told me that some of the individual clubs were worth hundreds of dollars each, I told them I'd take a hundred bucks for each bag full of clubs. They thought I was nuts, but I told them I just wanted the stuff GONE and out of my way.
A new revolver had been my happy place for working all the time. There are some i havent shot for awhile but cant bring my self to part with them!
I'm 87 and still buying. I can't remember the last time I sold a gun. 
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