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Post by bandit999 on Jan 7, 2015 10:08:46 GMT -5
You are a fortunate man indeed, axman.
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Post by Markbo on Jan 7, 2015 15:27:45 GMT -5
I once had an opportunity to bid on a scrap tanker for a client. I was allowed $1/2 million. There was some pucker factor at that amount of money. I might bid on Elmer's gun just to say I bid on it. I am sure what I can actually spend is a tiny fraction of what it will eventually go for.
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Post by Markbo on Jan 7, 2015 15:31:32 GMT -5
I just realized....not a single picture of it here  |
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Post by CraigC on Jan 8, 2015 14:13:47 GMT -5
I don't think things are quite so bleak. "We" have always been in the minority, even in Keith's heyday. Still lots of old men who think you can't kill anything bigger than a small deer with a handgun. I'm only 40, have been reading Keith, Seyfried and Taffin since childhood and we have quite a few here younger than I am.
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Post by ddixie884 on Jan 8, 2015 23:17:50 GMT -5
I would like to know the total amount the collection brings in the end. It would be nice to know how much a man of modest means could manage to amass in a long and colorful lifetime.
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Post by Jamey Worrell on Jan 9, 2015 6:46:51 GMT -5
I don't think things are quite so bleak. "We" have always been in the minority, even in Keith's heyday. Still lots of old men who think you can't kill anything bigger than a small deer with a handgun. I'm only 40, have been reading Keith, Seyfried and Taffin since childhood and we have quite a few here younger than I am. Just a grunt older that Craig (soon to be 45), but I think a lot of us younger guys got started on single actions because it's what our dad's taught us to shoot with. Our family gives a Bearcat (Single Six "Blackbird" for my son) to every kid/grandkid before their first birthday...all of us start shooting with a single action revolver first, and I think that builds a life long love. My nephew is 15 now, loves his UBGs and such, but still carries his Bearcat that I gave him when he was born when he goes walking the farm. And armadillos fear him with it  |
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Post by lscg on Jan 9, 2015 13:27:37 GMT -5
I don't think things are quite so bleak. "We" have always been in the minority, even in Keith's heyday. Still lots of old men who think you can't kill anything bigger than a small deer with a handgun. I'm only 40, have been reading Keith, Seyfried and Taffin since childhood and we have quite a few here younger than I am. Just a grunt older that Craig (soon to be 45), but I think a lot of us younger guys got started on single actions because it's what our dad's taught us to shoot with. Our family gives a Bearcat (Single Six "Blackbird" for my son) to every kid/grandkid before their first birthday...all of us start shooting with a single action revolver first, and I think that builds a life long love. My nephew is 15 now, loves his UBGs and such, but still carries his Bearcat that I gave him when he was born when he goes walking the farm. And armadillos fear him with it I believe you're right Jamey.
i'm 25 and my love for single actions is because of my Dad. when I was around 9 or 10 he started reading me stories he cut out of magazines, stories by Elmer, Skeeter, Charles Askins and many others. being able to roam around the pasture with His single six and a pocket full of 22's was one of my greatest joy's as a young'un .
if it wasn't for that then I doubt i'd have the deep appreciation for single actions and men like Elmer and Skeeter that I do.
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Post by seancass on Jan 9, 2015 15:11:03 GMT -5
I got my first single action when i turned 21 because I wanted to learn how to shoot, not just spray-n-pray. I first heard about Keith on this site around age 26. I wasn't raised around guns at all. First real exposure to firearms was in 4-H. I might be a bit away from the norm around here in this regard.
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Post by bandit999 on Jan 9, 2015 19:56:25 GMT -5
All you youngsters are making me feel my mortality in most uncomfortable ways.
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Post by rjm52 on Jan 10, 2015 22:33:50 GMT -5
I would like to know the total amount the collection brings in the end. It would be nice to know how much a man of modest means could manage to amass in a long and colorful lifetime. I "had" a friend who died last March...a little old Polish dairy farmer, he was 89. He never had much money but what he had he put into guns... He started collecting in the late 1950s and there were things in his modest house that one can only dream about.... How about: A MaDuce... Unfired M60 Two 1921 Thompson SMGs Several one of ten M1 Garands in .22/06 UNFIRED Stoger Artillery Luger He owned three of trick shooters Ernie and Dot Lind's handguns and three of his rifles....they were good friends. How did he do it...never had a new car. Clothes looked like they came from the Salvation Army. Never ate out. Never took a vacation... Had a lot of friends "in the business" who would call him when good deals would come up. Would often ask the seller for a time payment and was always good to his word... Dot Lind's .357....      I was proud to call him friend...Bob |
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