Originally Posted by
Memtb2149
I had to look, to see if this was my post!
Though, there are several firearms that will go to family. There are also a few that family can’t appreciate, as one is a “wildcat” and they don’t hand-load...... it will likely be sold( by me) to someone that can use and enjoy it! My greatest fear is that what took me a lifetime of careful selections and of financial sacrifice, will be merely sold or traded off with no thought of the history or what they meant to me. What means or meant so much to me......means so little to them! memtb
I feel 100% the same, I took so much time and care building the collection I have and its sad no one in my family cares at all about it!
cannot blame them, we all like what we like
but what a shame, to enjoy something so much and know, it ends with you, in your family!
one good thing I have found, SOME times, is, due to I have sold off a lot of things, I have been sort of able to sel to folks either my friends that I know appreciate things better, or just strangers that seem to have a passion for certain guns
has become some what enjoyable seeing some things pass on to others that do seem to value them!
Still sucks, selling things, but at some point in life, you have to make the call, to either NOT sell them and have them get sold to the first idiot with cash that makes the family a LOW ball offer and makes out, or, try and sell off before you go!
I spent the past 10 yrs ow thinning things, and glad I did I THINK LOL