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Offline Idaho Elk Hunter

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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2006, 04:20:10 PM »
Honestly I do have to many guns. I have been thinkinf of selling my M70 pre 64 collection. I have purchased close to a gun per month since I was about twenty And I need to stop  :shock:

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« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2006, 12:19:16 PM »
how would youever decide wich ones to sell??? I've tried but just can't let go..I guess my kidswill have to figure it out when I'm gone- Kevin :?

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« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2006, 03:20:51 PM »
Quote from: Idaho Elk Hunter
Honestly I do have to many guns. I have been thinkinf of selling my M70 pre 64 collection. I have purchased close to a gun per month since I was about twenty And I need to stop  :shock:

SHEESH!! :shock:
Mmmm, sad to sell such a collection.
Do you use them?
If not perhaps there is an arms museum or gallery that would appreciate such a display.
If you have military arms there is usually some sort of museum crying out for good exhibits.
Past that I can't think of any other suggestions that don't involve actually giving them away or selling them.
A friend has just started getting out of shooting more because of health problems and he basically kept the things that he really has a passion for, like a 577/450 Martini trade rifle, an original BSA Martini .310 Cadet and some other little items like period .22lrs.
I guess it's a case of finding what you really love and use and then having the strength of mind to think "I can't take it with me" and sell those that are sitting gathering dust.
If you have family who'd like particular items thats an easy out to begin with.
I'm not in a position really to even imagine how much room a collection like that takes up but it must be considerable.
At present I only have 5 complete rifles and I just acquired a large frame Martini action for custom rifle so 6 will probably be a premium unless something really interesting comes along.
I have a couple of Belgian-style Martini rook rifle barreled receivers with few parts in 32 WCF and 297/230 Morris and they would be amazing to finish(if I could just find the freakin' parts! :( ) but that would only total 8.
Mmmm, I do go on.
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Offline Idaho Elk Hunter

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« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2006, 04:30:15 PM »
Well I have 3 I priced the other day to a man that has been driving me nuts.  3 Winchester Westerners Unfired with all hang tags and paper work. All 264 mags I told him I will take $2500 each and he told me they didnt book that high.  I asked him how many new one he has seen! Said that was his first. I think he will end up taking them though. I told him price was subject to change. They are not that hard to get rid of for me. I need a new camper. I will probably just sell a few as I need the money. Daughter has to go to college if a few years .

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« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2006, 08:11:31 PM »
Sounds like a wise decision.
Kinda like a trust for your daughter.
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Cheers & God Bless

.22lr ~ 22 Hornet ~ 25-20 ~ 303/25 ~ 7mm-08 ~ 303 British ~ 310 Cadet ~ 9.3x62 ~ 450/400 NE 3"

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« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2006, 04:01:31 PM »
I'm only 7 guns away from having one for each year of my life, doing pretty good :D   For me buying guns is not a problem...  I like it too much:)  but letting them go is the problem, I put my guns with that old quote...  You can pry it out of my cold dead fingers.
"At least with a gun that big, if you miss and hit the rocks in front of him it'll stone him to death..."

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« Reply #36 on: March 20, 2006, 06:23:56 PM »
Y'know, this is going to sound like complete crazy talk but a workmate and I were talking about the fact that civilisation is only a thin veneer where everyone says "Yeah, we like things the way they are so lets keep things orderly".
The older I get the more comfortable I am that, not to protect my family, but simply to feed them, I have a locker of guns.
As people get used to their dishwashers and microwaves and "meat on a styrofoam tray at the supermarket" I think we're actually alarmingly closer to complete choas than we ever were.
I may be no backwoodsman but I know I could bring down an animal, carve off the meat needed and feed my family if things went wrong.
Is that why people seem to fear shooters & hunters?
Because we aren't necessarily locked into the fragile safety of Western Society?
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« Reply #37 on: April 11, 2006, 02:36:06 PM »
My better half thinks I have to many rifles.I have more then our local
pawn shop,more then walmart,but less then one of my local sport shops
unless I count my muzzel loaders and hand guns then I might be even.
But I still say I dont have enough. :P
I'm not in VietNam anymore,so get someone else to walk point.('69-'70)

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« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2006, 03:56:04 PM »
Too many? Nah.  My talley:

Rifles:
Savage 110 .30-06
Swede M96 Sporter 6.5x55
Spanish La Coruna Mauser Sporter 8x57
Turkish M38 Sporter .257 Roberts
Mosin Nagant M38 7.62x54R
SMLE No4 Mk1 .303 Brit
Schmidt-Rubin K31 7.5x55 Swiss
Yugo M48A Mauser 8x57
Gewer Commission 88 8x57J
Yugo SKS 7.62x39
Marlin Model 60 .22LR
Ruger 10/22 .22LR

Shotguns:
Browning A-5 12ga
Remington 870 Express 12ga
CZ 712 12ga
Charles Daly Maxi-Mag 12ga
NEF Pardner 20ga

Pistols:
Ruger P95 9mm
"Collection o' parts" 1911 .45ACP
Star Modelo Super 9mm Largo
CZ52 7.62x25 Tok
Pietta Remington 1858 Clone .44cal Blackpowder

I still need a few dozen more . . .

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« Reply #39 on: April 12, 2006, 10:56:49 AM »
Rifle Magazine did a reader survey a couple of months ago. I don't remember exactly, but I think the average respondent to the survey claimed to own 67 firearms.

Which means I need to get busy!

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« Reply #40 on: April 13, 2006, 06:11:18 PM »
That just crazy talk...did your wife somehow hack into your computer and post this hog wash.  Too many guns...why I outta!!!

Just kidding (well not realy) but I have seemed to be selling off the ones I don't use for ones that I would.  For the time being I've been restricted to "if you want a gun you need to sell one or some of your other crap (such harsh words from such a small woman) if you want to purchase a new one".

Oh well, she's probably right sine my son is just over 2 and my daughter is not quite 4.  It's amazing how house payments seem to override most decisions these days.  Okay now I'm depressed...

Josh
My wife once made the mistake of telling me "all of your guns look alike"...No, I've had this gun for a long time! LOL