Unused Firearms -- Keep or Sell?

[joshb]

in a situation like that id do the same thing. ive got a few with some sentimentall value id like to pass down but i guess ill have to get over it.

Find a cute 30 something and have a kid? I know a guy my age that married a younger girl ten years ago and had a kid. He got a daughter but she’s learning how to shoot!

 

[joshb]

butt how can i sell my 86 Python i dont shoot much?.

You get buried with that one. Just oil it well so when you’re dug up in a thousand years, it’ll still be worth something!

 

[L2R23]

I have inherited multiple firearms on two separate occasions. Most were expensive and others not so much. Some were collector grade.The look on the people's face when I gave them free guns were priceless. It seems like now I'm never short of deer meat for the favor of giving them a new gun. Most times they drive over and deliver it. I did manage to keep two guns that were sentimental to me a rem 788 in 7mm08, and a Diana Springer. The rest of my collection in the safe have a tag on them with name of the person that I want it to go to. Being retired now if I want a new gun usually means selling one that doesn't get shot anymore.

 

[Dave Way]

In my case, several things made my decision. As I approached retirement I was losing my interest in hunting. At the same time, my interest in Long Range BR shooting kept growing. My wife has little knowledge of gun values and would likely get taken if she had to sell them after I was gone.

I turned about 20 or 25 rifles, shotguns and handguns into a few of the most accurate LR rifles around as well as a super accurate PPC to play with. I’ll tell her what the few remaining rifles are worth when I’m gone.

Just how I decided to handle things.

Dave.

 

[hoz53]

Find a cute 30 something and have a kid? I know a guy my age that married a younger girl ten years ago and had a kid. He got a daughter but she’s learning how to shoot!

not a bad plan- daughter could push me around in my wheel chair at the range!! —when i get to be 85 though and shes 16 she‘ll prob give up on me and run off with a younger man

 

[hoz53]

In my case, several things made my decision. As I approached retirement I was losing my interest in hunting. At the same time, my interest in Long Range BR shooting kept growing. My wife has little knowledge of gun values and would likely get taken if she had to sell them after I was gone.

I turned about 20 or 25 rifles, shotguns and handguns into a few of the most accurate LR rifles around as well as a super accurate PPC to play with. I’ll tell her what the few remaining rifles are worth when I’m gone.

Just how I decided to handle things.

Dave.

id like to handle things the same way - i did sell 5 or 6 but its been difficult to get myself to sell others.

 

[bpd459]

My dad punched out a few years ago, and my uncle got out of shooting due to age. my brother and I ended up with a bunch more guns. My younger son had a pretty good collection going. He moved to Montana in 2023. Every time I see him, I give him a few to take custody of. I got a kick out of his 28yo self telling me he needed another safe….

 

[625-8]

I have found with age priorities change and I have guns I seldom or no longer shoot. I’m considering selling a few of them and maybe get a new toy(s) I’d like to shoot. And, as a few here have said, give some to family members now instead of later as opposed to the estate doing it.

 

[Just Dave]

Im there right now. I got two custom guns that I'lll never get to use for what I intended them to be.
A 30-06 with a 9 twist douglas that I thought I would bear hunt with someday, and a 243 775 twist to launch 105's at coyotes, . Im gonna sell them to fund my benchgun dreams. you'll see them on this forum when I get motivated enough to take pictures.. shoot, I got a brand new Taurus TX22 witha red dot that will be three years old in a couple months, never chambered a case yet, I just didnt have time.

 

[hoz53]

Find a cute 30 something and have a kid? I know a guy my age that married a younger girl ten years ago and had a kid. He got a daughter but she’s learning how to shoot!

Oops forgot- I had theV surgery many moons ago.

 

[centershot]

My son married a liberal woman and she will not even let him keep his guns, that he had since a young boy, in the house.
We would go out after school was over and go to the range to shoot in a .22 silhouette match. Both loved it. Still have two of his favorites in my safe.
It's not just guns. Look at all of the small tools and parts related to shooting. They will probably go into the dumpster.
I was talking with a person, who went to the Air Force Academy and he offered to buy my M-1 Garand that I purchased from the DCM many years ago and I might just take him up on that.