So What is on the Chopping Block for 2020?

[mbliss57]

Well this is is silly question if you ask my dear wife. I started out the 2019 year to reduce my accumulation by 50%. Thats's a lot of selling. I started out great and sold /donated some handguns at the spring NE Ohio bunch and several others here on forum and a few private sales. I thought I was on track ... however...
I just looked at my inventory sheet and although I sold or donated over 1X guns this year my inventory grew by 3X or 20% this year [emoji23]
How do yo u explain that?! Is it a a sickness or a healthy hobby!
If last year is any yardstick it doesn't matter what I sell I'll end up with more than I started with.

 

[HorizontalMike]

Just shot up nearly all my center-fire pistols and revolvers to see what can go...uooo..oh,..oo..ohh...!....
Oh kay-rapp! Looks like I need MORE, not less!

Needless to say, I guess I don't have anything to contribute to THIS thread for now...

 

[rubiranch]

First thing that went was the ex.

 

[Engineer1911]

Sell??? We just bought Colt Mustang 380 ACP (her) and Para Ordnance (North Carolina) Government model series 80 1911 45 ACP (me).

EDIT: M629-4 with 3" full lug barrel and unfluted cylinder just went to a new home. Just 8 more 44 mags to sell right after I shoot the ammo.

 

[Pine_Worker]

A Colt Detective Special will be going, just don't like it.

 

[wproct]

I think about this subject quite a bit. I will soon be 75, and over the past 8 years or so I have thinned the herd some already, and I feel like I should be letting more go, but am just having a hard time doing so. My daughter and son in law are not interested in guns at all, and my son likes shooting some but has never had the level of interest in them that I have. I hate dragging guns to gun shows just to get a fraction of what they are worth. I have a friend my age in the same situation and his wife is always nagging him to get rid of them so she wont have to, but my wife does not do that. She says I will let them go when I'm ready. It's a hard decision to make.

 

[B_Still]

I think about this subject quite a bit. I will soon be 75, and over the past 8 years or so I have thinned the herd some already, and I feel like I should be letting more go, but am just having a hard time doing so. My daughter and son in law are not interested in guns at all, and my son likes shooting some but has never had the level of interest in them that I have. I hate dragging guns to gun shows just to get a fraction of what they are worth. I have a friend my age in the same situation and his wife is always nagging him to get rid of them so she wont have to, but my wife does not do that. She says I will let them go when I'm ready. It's a hard decision to make.

If, at some point (long) in the future, your son (or son-in-law) were to inherit a nice gun collection, an inheritance might change his perspective on its value or even spark an interest in the sport itself. Or maybe it skips a generation and sparks the interest for a grandchild?

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[Dave Lively]

My daughter and son in law are not interested in guns at all, and my son likes shooting some but has never had the level of interest in them that I have. I hate dragging guns to gun shows just to get a fraction of what they are worth.

Like you I don't have anyone really interested in guns that I can pass them down to. A few years ago I started selling every gun I had not shot in the past two years which was more than half of my collection. It feels weird to be able to quickly pull any gun you own out of the safe instead of having to move others out of the way first but you get used to it. Some of the ones I sold were expensive but my heirs would probably have taken them to a gun shop and got pennies on the dollar if they inherited them. Selling them myself so I could leave them the cash instead made more sense. I am 60 with no major health issues so hopefully this will not be an issue in the near future but you never know.

If selling your guns seems like a big hassle to you imagine how your wife would feel about it.

I sold my 22s, bolt action rifles and pump shotguns on a local trading board unless they were worth more than $400. The rest I sold on GunBroker.

GunBroker can be a pain and the fees and shipping costs take a big chunk of the sales price. But for collectors items like the no dash 610 with a five inch barrel I sold having a national audience means a better chance of selling the gun for what it is worth. In the case of centerfire handguns and semi auto rifles I also liked that with GB the sale goes through a FFL dealer.

Everyone I dealt with on the local trading board seemed like great guys and the board had a feedback system so you had some idea of who you were dealing with. I always asked for a peek at a drivers license or carry permit so I knew they were in state and I could legally sell to them. But while perfectly legal meeting someone in a parking lot and selling them an expensive handgun for cash seemed risky. I do not do Craig's list for many of the same reasons. And if a handgun I sold eventually gets stolen from its new owner and ends up in the hands of a criminal I would prefer to have a paper trail proving I sold it legally. The odds of that happening are low but not zero.

 

[Narragansett]

How are you planning on disposing of your firearms? Do you have a LGS that accepts consignments? Use an auction? Classified advertisement?

I would go to the sell forum on this site first

 

[roguegamma]

I just might dispose of a NIB Colt Pocket-Nine that I've been sitting on for years. I have a square butt Model 12-3 that I don't think I'll carry or shoot. I keep arguing with mysel over the need for two 3" model 36's. If I can break through my hoarder's instincts, these could go along with a few shotguns and .22's.

 

[NRA Dave]

On the sell list for 2020 are
629-4 Mountain Gun with box
NIB Ruger EC9
NIB H&R Handi in 300BO

Maybe include
Freedom Arms Model 97 in 357m
Remington 1903-A4 Sniper rifle

Sniper rifle took a long time to acquire but it takes up a lot of space in the safe.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and bountiful 2020! (oh and wishing my Tigers a National Championship in football!)

 

[TTSH]

So What is on the Chopping Block for 2020?

I'll be continuing my plastic pistol reduction initiative that I started in late-2017. Other than my mini-mouse pocket pistols, plastic does nothing for me anymore except take up valuable safe space.

I'll probably also put my vintage Charter stainless .38 snub and my AMT Back-up .380 up for auction on GB just to get rid of them. I'm sick of waiting for another lucrative buy-back. I bought them together brand new ~40 years ago. Never shot or carried either. They won't bring much, but GB completed sales says they'll bring something.

 

[ladder13]

I'll be continuing my plastic pistol reduction initiative that I started in late-2017. Other than my mini-mouse pocket pistols, plastic does nothing for me anymore except take up valuable safe space.

I'll probably also put my vintage Charter stainless .38 snub and my AMT Back-up .380 up for auction on GB just to get rid of them. I'm sick of waiting for another lucrative buy-back. I bought them together brand new ~40 years ago. Never shot or carried either. They won't bring much, but GB completed sales says they'll bring something.

What plastic ya got, I'm paying a dollar a pound. Better than AL @ .21 or steel at a penny or two.

 

[TTSH]

What plastic ya got, I'm paying a dollar a pound. Better than AL @ .21 or steel at a penny or two.

Wise guy!!!

 

[DonD]

My 6.5" Performance Center 500 Mag. For some reason, despite a superb trigger, I shoot my original style 8.375" barreled 500 Mag much better and it's more muzzle heavy balance makes it more comfortable with heavier loads.

I'd like a long slide M&P 2.0 in 10mm to spend some of the $ on. Don

 

[GeorgeD]

CZ Shadow 2 Black and Blue and a Beretta 92x Centurion. But, those will go to fund the buying of something else.

 

[Pine_Worker]

A Colt Detective Special will be going, just don't like it.

Well, it's gone, guess I don't have anything going in 2020.

 

[rubiranch]

Well, it's gone, guess I don't have anything going in 2020.

That was quick.

I don't even have a chopping block to part with.

 

[Benchrest1]

Nothing, going in the other direction.

 

[notsofast]

Recently sold four, 2 of which I wish I had back. So no immediate plans for anymore selling