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12-29-2019, 08:08 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,743
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! memtbcannot 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
12-30-2019, 08:59 AM
#14
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: NE Nebraska
Posts: 83
A couple of rifles just "Because I Can/Want To" a Savage 99 in 250/000 and a Marlin 1895 in .45-70.
This would give a rifle in most of the "popular" calibers. (.224, .257, .277, .308, .358 and .458.
Then maybe a non magnum in .338 and .375
This would give a rifle in most of the "popular" calibers. (.224, .257, .277, .308, .358 and .458.
Then maybe a non magnum in .338 and .375
12-30-2019, 02:17 PM
#16
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern California
Posts: 18,382
12-31-2019, 04:03 PM
#17
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,746
I will most probably look for a Model 71 Winchester as a gift for a nephew who recently expressed an interest. I am not a big lever action fan myself but he is. Casual purchases for myself might include a Remington 141 chambered in 35 to use on our annual "old rifle" hunt where everyone brings a classic old iron sighted rifle.
Last edited by bronko22000; 12-31-2019 at 04:10 PM.
01-01-2020, 01:05 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,780
I wish I would have know this. I recently traded one in that was in perfect condition (a 141 in .35 Rem). I also had a nice model 71 that a guy bought off me on line a couple years ago. I sent it to his FFL in a hard case. After examining it he decided he didn't want it so he sent it back in just a box and kept my hard case! Well the dummy didn't pack it properly and when I received it the muzzle was protruding out of the box and the crown was damaged. I refused delivery and told him that I hope he had it insured because I refused it due to damage and I never gave him his money back. So I don't know if he ate. The last I heard was the PO still had it so I guess he insured it.