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Post by leftysixgun on Oct 4, 2024 20:46:43 GMT -5
So at what age do you decide when to thin the herd. I’m still quite healthy and my shooting interests bounces around about every 7yrs….I still have a very loyal following to my sixguns.
I have papers on 99% of what I have bought. But my wife and daughter still doesn’t know what all I have.
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 5, 2024 18:00:36 GMT -5
NOT SURE THERE IS ANY GIVEN AGE. EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE AND THINK ABOUT THE ONES YOU HAVE NEVER SHOT, HAVEN'T SHOT IN A LONG TIME, ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER USE AGAIN, CAN LIVE WITHOUT, etc. ME, I BEEN SELLING A LOT, BUYING A FEW, AND STILL GOT LOTS OF GUN CASH.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 5, 2024 19:38:09 GMT -5
Wife and I briefly spoke of firearms disposition the other day, at some point in the next 5 years I’ll be selling some that will not get used.
Trapr
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Post by coltfan on Oct 5, 2024 20:14:25 GMT -5
Well, this is one that I want to follow since a lot of this is very fresh in my mind. Between my father passing last summer, a good buddy this spring, and now a friend who says he wants to downsize at age 81 (with my help). I often look around and think I need to get rid of some guns and stuff, and yet nothing seems to shrink.
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 5, 2024 20:45:19 GMT -5
I HAVE BEEN SERIOUS ENUFF ABOUT DOWNSIZING THAT, AND GOD FROGIVE ME, I HAVE MOVED 2 45 COLT REVOLVERS AND ANM IDENTIFYING A FEW OTHERS FOR A NEW HOME.
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Post by doninnh on Oct 6, 2024 11:23:50 GMT -5
Well: I have the same problem I guess all of us that get older sooner or later see problems
which will be there for the rest of our families. My wife has been dead for near 10 years.
I do not have the problem of worrying about her being taken care of. My oldest is as large a
gun nut as his old man. I sort of only have the problem of stopping any ill results from
passing. So I may pass up new guns and get rid of some of the paired ones. As any gripes
made will fall on deaf ears I guess that is about the best I can do.
Have a nice day Don K.
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Post by Jamey Worrell on Oct 6, 2024 14:12:07 GMT -5
My collection is small by many standards on this forum. My "best of the last" collection all have either my name or family name on them, and most of the rest were my great grandfather's/grandfather's/father's hunting firearms. The Boss will save it all for our son...I anticipate the few AR-type firearms I own to be sold off, and I couldn't care less...soul-less black plastic tools...
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Post by Professor on Oct 6, 2024 15:38:11 GMT -5
My wife wants me to sell mine and im only 40. She is not wrong about it being a pain. My friends own a shop in Tyler TX they opened in 1947. Several generations made a living off buying family collections for half what they can sell them for.
My Dad has 100+ guns and has no intention of selling any. He would add more if he had money.
I worry about mine everytime we leave the house over night. Its stress that I would probably be wise to reduce.
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Post by kings6 on Oct 6, 2024 15:58:18 GMT -5
I haven’t I’ve never thought about my guns when I am gone overnight. Shoot I’ve been on the road about nine weeks this summer and I’ve worried about the animals, the yard etc but my “collection” never crossed my mind. The guns are just things and while things are nice, they are just things. Every one of those days gone were spent with special friends or helping family. To me, those the important things.
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Post by gw425 on Oct 7, 2024 10:55:38 GMT -5
Packed a trailer this weekend with the remaining 68 firearms that are being sold. Packed another trailer with reloading stuff, ammo, grips, magazines by the dozens, etc. for the local gun show in November. Probably another 6 or so trailer loads of just reloading stuff. One thing I forget at times when dealing with all of this is that he wasn't expecting to pass away...
Greg
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Post by tentcamper on Oct 9, 2024 8:13:18 GMT -5
I helped a friend's wife liquidate the remainder of his firearms estate several years ago. Not a terribly difficult process as I knew what everything was worth or could easily valuate it or knew a way to do so. And I knew the right place is to go to make her some money... pretty good money in fact.
Just as bad luck would have it. As soon as I finished selling everything for her and got her paid, she died.
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 9, 2024 16:06:20 GMT -5
I REHOMED 19 TODAY, GOING TO STOP FOR A WHILE, JUST TAKES TOO MUCH TIME TO DO LISTS AND WITH HUNTING SEASON COMING UP I GOT PLENTY OF OTHER STUFF TO WORK ON.
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