How do you collect?

[PuertoRican]

That's cool! I'd like to find a 39 that dates to '74, my birth year. What are you looking for from the 50's? Anything I can keep an eye out for?

You're gonna hate me. Had a Nickel 39-2 from 1974. Sold it 2 years ago. I hate myself for that one.
For my 50s piece, I'm after a snub, preferably a .32Long.

 

[DesertFox]

As my collection would testify, the 1006 would not have made it out of my sight. I'm sort of a "black hole" for S&W 3rd gen 10mm...

 

[jstanfield103]

I don't know about anyone else but I collect by pissing my wife off. She say's I spend way to much on guns.

 

[davevt48732]

I don't know about anyone else but I collect by pissing my wife off. She say's I spend way to much on guns.

Yet a hair cut costs them $50 and they have 10 different pairs of shoes. Go figure

 

[waffenmac]

Well one of the first things I look at is cost .If its a real good deal I will usually buy.And I dont buy anything other than NRA xcly condition box is a plus but by no means needed if it drives the price up.And gunbroker has been the best place to find deals many times a gun has one lousy pic taken or the description is horrible,I always hit the ask seller question box and most will send additional pics and infn eexample is a 659 that I won that had a single pic that was blurry and I thought the grips looked good so I contacted him and the pistol ended up being nib with spare mag still rapped and taped up in S&W paper for 300.00 + 15.00 shipping and 15.00 transfer .So fo a little bit of my time I get a new pistol for 100.00 to 200.00 less than it would go for.

 

[waffenmac]

I don't know about anyone else but I collect by pissing my wife off. She say's I spend way to much on guns.

Indeed same here but after 24 years she has finally given up trying to change that.I just told her I could take up golf or drinking with buddies or she could put up with a 1000 to 2000 in firearm purchases every few years.

 

[Birds Away]

The first thing I consider is rarity. Which of the guns available will I probably have to wait the longest to get another chance at? Then price and after that it is pure what I feel like at the time. Good luck.

 

[66f100]

How do I collect? Behind my wife's back (I have enough she will not notice another one, and she will kill me if I buy any more)

I'm with you

 

[Gunhacker]

How do I collect? Behind my wife's back (I have enough she will not notice another one, and she will kill me if I buy any more)

I suspect that for a very few, that is standard operating procedure... along with keeping the combo of the gun safe hidden.

 

[Sunsetomaha]

Wives

I think most wives are aware of our buying habits. We all just try to stay out of the "spotlight", otherwise our wives will feel entitled to purchase something big.

This weekend my son came home from college. He spotted a newly acquired 3913 LadySmith in my office. He asked if it was new. I replied I had had it for "awhile" (hours). He knew it did not look like my other 3rd generation guns, and insisted "No Dad, this is new". I was thinking on my feet. "Oh yes, I bought that for your Mother. You see, it is a LadySmith." My wife overheard the conversation, and asked how much it was worth. After hearing my reply, she said "good, I need to know because I am going to sell my gun!" Fortunatelty, she was kidding (I think).

Several years ago, I kept some old gun cases in the truck. That way, if I bought another gun I could put it in an old case and bring it into the house "under the radar." One day she asked why I was bringing my new guns into the house in the old cases. "Don't you understand I know what you are doing?"

Yes, I think most of them know. I think they realize we could have more destructive addictions.

 

[coorslight]

The first thing I consider is rarity. Which of the guns available will I probably have to wait the longest to get another chance at? Then price and after that it is pure what I feel like at the time. Good luck.

That's why I want your CS9, they are getting scarce where I am.