Was I too harsh???

[jimmyj]

Hi:
What is done, is done.
Find out who has the Rossi, and buy it and keep it.

 

[Maximumbob54]

Hi:
What is done, is done.
Find out who has the Rossi, and buy it and keep it.

That is what I had to do to get my grandfather's BAR .30-06 back and it was $800 well spent.

 

[brucev]

Well wrapped up trick-or-treating at my brother's house last night, and he says he has a new semi-auto 22. So I say "what did you get?" So he takes me to his gun cabinet and pulls out a new looking blued Marlin model 60 with wood stock, and this is where it goes wrong. He says "I traded my Rossi for it, what do you think?" Guess I have no filter, as I said "Looks like someone saw you coming." He traded away the first rifle our parents ever bought him, a Rossi 62SAC for a Marlin 60. I would have bought him a Marlin 60 for that Rossi. He said it was really accurate, so tried to be positive, but was still a little upset. As long as he is happy with it I guess it shouldn't matter. Just wondering if I came off too harsh, even though I feel like someone snookered him.

It's easy to pop off at someone, especially when you don't like something they did. It changes nothing. The rifle is gone. Hopefully you and your brother will have many years together. In 1982 I gave my father a very pretty S&W 19-2 (TT,TH,TS,RR,WORS, +99%). I appreciated everything he and mom did for my wife and I when we were in seminary. Later... my brother took the revolver and traded it for a Beretta 92. That got traded for a Colt Detective Special. Then my brother died. And my father died. The Colt was gone. The pictures remain. Guns come. And, guns go. Very much miss my brother... and my father.

 

[novalty]

I don't hold any ill will against him, but a little peeved as this is not the first time this has happened. Fortunately, the last time was the Marlin 336 CS that our mother gave him, which he tried to trade for a Steven's 311, at least he offered it to me first. Yes I know Rossi doesn't exactly have the best reputation, however their 62 model copy of the Winchester 62 was a real winner. The one my brother had was the 62 SAC, Short-Action Carbine Gallery gun. It functioned well and fired accurately. Yes, I am fine with him wanting a semi-auto 22, but just speaking value wise, and someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I valued his Rossi (without sentimental) at $300, the Marlin I would value at $150. Gonna ask him if I can get ahold of the person he traded with as I would definately buy it back.

Sip, he's my older brother, and I've always had the suspicion he was adopted by mistake. With this recent event it pretty much confirms it, seems like the only real course of action now is having his name removed from our parents' wills.

 

[NKJ nut]

It's his to do what he wants with it. Of course since he is your brother you can pretty much give him all the hell you want to

 

[410bore]

If it was his, then he had the right to trade it.

Too bad you both didn't have one. I still have the first rifle (Winchester 67A) and shotgun (Sears 101.7/Stevens 311a .410) my dad bought me, and my brother has the same. I will NEVER sell or trade them.

your dad had good taste

 

[David LaPell]

One of my cousins got my grandfather's old 1894 Winchester SRC and the last I heard it got pawned off and sold. I have my grandfather's muzzleloaders and his Colt .22 Woodsman and then my Uncle's Ithaca Deerslayer. I will sell my car and peddle my butt to work on a bike before I sell them.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I will sell my car and peddle my butt to work on a bike before I sell them.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that. ;-{>

 

[617X10]

So this is about trading some foreign pump .22 for a Marlin cheap .22? Toss up if you ask me. Now if he pulled a nice Italian made 1873 Winchester copy out of that gun cabinet and said, "I traded off that Rossi I don't shoot anymore" I would have congratulated him. If you liked it that much you should have asked for first dibs. At least he didn't show you a bag of crack instead of that Marlin.

 

[novalty]

So this is about trading some foreign pump .22 for a Marlin cheap .22? Toss up if you ask me. Now if he pulled a nice Italian made 1873 Winchester copy out of that gun cabinet and said, "I traded off that Rossi I don't shoot anymore" I would have congratulated him. If you liked it that much you should have asked for first dibs. At least he didn't show you a bag of crack instead of that Marlin.

I would have taken first dibs if he had afforded me the opportunity, however, I was made aware of the fact after the trade had taken place. In regards that "foreign pump .22)", the only one like it on GB is $330, the highest priced Marlin 60 on GB like the one he traded for is $210--with a slew of them in the $160 ballpark. You are correct in that it was better than him trading of for illegal drugs.

Anyway nothing to do about it now. I contacted him yesterday and asked him to tell the person he traded with to let me know if they were interested in selling.

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