TheTyler7011
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If you love something, let it go. If it returns to you cherish it forever. If it does not, it was never meant to be yours. That said, if somebody offers more than it is worth, it means he owns it! Think Skeeter Skelton wrote that somewhere.
TheTyler7011
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Yup. I also believe that just cause you love something doesnāt mean itās gotta be yours forever. Enjoy it, learn from it, and pass it on to make room for other stuff.
64Springer
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The ones I really loved and let go have haunted me ever since.
If you still have it.....Keep it.
If you still have it.....Keep it.
My dad used to tell me if it aint eating nothing keep it.
One time sold a gun or I wasn't eating
One time sold a gun or I wasn't eating
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I used to get tired of stuff and sold it cheap. Then, years later, discovered the stuff I sold was worth a lot now and would have been excellent investments. Plus I missed it. Got to the point where I felt that I could always get more money, but can't always replace stuff I'd sold. If I want something else, find the money for it rather than selling something.
Now I need more space...
Now I need more space...
Old guys remember what we paid for stuff - and what that same money would buy at the time. When you make $500 a month, a $100 rifle's a big deal. Today, that's not even a family dinner at a so-so restaurant. Today's prices seem stupid high to some of us, but that's our frame of reference.
We're not stingy, just price-shocked b/c a decent M/L rifle ($1,000) represents two months' wages in our memory. Widows are easily cheated b/c few of us told our wives what we actually paid for stuff when it came home. "Grandpa paid $50 for that old pistol." ...guilty.
We're not stingy, just price-shocked b/c a decent M/L rifle ($1,000) represents two months' wages in our memory. Widows are easily cheated b/c few of us told our wives what we actually paid for stuff when it came home. "Grandpa paid $50 for that old pistol." ...guilty.
64Springer
75 Cal.
Just this morning I was contemplating a new .308 bolt action Unmen.
So I went looking. 600 bucks. 900 bucks. 1,200 bucks. A quality scope 300 bucks.
Twenty years ago, all of these prices would be well under half. You could buy a bare bones bolt action for 249 bucks on sale. Not no mo.
I decided that my cobbled together 69 dollar surplus 8mm Mauser and 150 dollar scout scope that shoots .290 MOA at 50 yards will suit me just fine.
Jason holgate
40 Cal
Yeah I have been there
I have retreats about many of the guns I sold or gave away.
I thought the saying was
If you love something let it go, if it doesnāt come back hunt it down
I thought the saying was
If you love something let it go, if it doesnāt come back hunt it down
I'm been done buying unmentionables for some time now, but I know and agree with what you're saying.
In some cases we 're better off looking at the used ones as opposed to some new ones, like Remlins as they
are called. Quality has suffered in some takeovers. Mine are all JM's.
I'm on the fence with a couple of guns staying or going, it suck's. If you sell one,
there's now a gap where it used to be. Do you fill the gap with another or move
out more? Once you start, where does it end? Scary!
Or, another version I had heard; "If you love something, let it go. If it returns to you cherish it forever. If it does not,
I have a T/C Hawken flint that I would be willing to part with. I dont want to deal with shipping hassles, crating and all that stuff. so it remain,s
Other than memories attached to some of my stuff, looking back, it was the fun/challenge of the "hunt" to actually own (if but for awhile) most of it.
Kinda like finally owning a good pony. You finally get one. Can 't ride it, grandkids don't want it, and now you have to feed it. Time for pony to go down the road.
I thank the Lord we didn't buy them a pony when asked. But, really, five safes of unshot, unused wildly assorted guns is at my stage in life..sorta the same thing. That pony needs to go down the road. Daresay others on here are in the same boat.
Kinda like finally owning a good pony. You finally get one. Can 't ride it, grandkids don't want it, and now you have to feed it. Time for pony to go down the road.
I thank the Lord we didn't buy them a pony when asked. But, really, five safes of unshot, unused wildly assorted guns is at my stage in life..sorta the same thing. That pony needs to go down the road. Daresay others on here are in the same boat.
64Springer
75 Cal.
Can't beat the JM stamped rifles.
My .30-30 lever is a Marlin/Glenfield 30A pre-safety. JM stamped.
Has a permanent place in the heard.
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