Gun boxes

Armybrat said:
Boxes full of handgun boxes and a couple of AR component boxes here & there.
Only rifle box I have is for my Winchester 9422. (Not in photo)

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Exactly, thanks for posting the pic.
Don't know the reason for the furring strips behind the shelf brackets though.

Gun boxes

Ya, ya been discussed a bunch. From my readings on here it seems if the gun is high value save the box. What about $200 22 rifles or $300 shotguns?
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CraigC said:
I used to keep all that crap, no more! I have never had the box add any value to a sell or trade. They ask for them but never offer to pay more for them. So I no longer keep them. A few years ago I threw away probably 80% of my accumulated boxes. A ton of gray plastic Ruger boxes. It was like a colon cleanse. Nowadays, I'll often not even wait until I get home to ditch the box. If I can't leave it at the LGS, I'll stop by the local dump site to offload it.

I do keep the cardboard boxes from stuff like USFA's, older S&W's, Colt's, Rugers and Winchesters. Virtually none of the run-of-the-mill modern stuff.



It's kinda funny to see people clamoring for those. We used to toss them in the parts box as soon as we could, in favor of something more comfortable. I don't use a single set of factory S&W grips. Guess I need to offload them to Ebay.

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Beautiful 5-screw HP!! I've got a 6" M28-2 which is probably the S&W of mine that gets the most use, aside from the 2-1/2" M66-1 I use as an EDC. Of the S&W's I own that I shoot frequently or carry, I remove the factory stocks and generally use Altamont replacements, so I don't mess up the factory stocks. I don't collect stocks or boxes, but keep the ones I get with the guns I buy if they have one. I only have five of the cardboard boxes and two presentation cases for the S&W's. I have five or six of the plastic carry cases my 1911's came with which are handy to take them to the range in, but really have no collector value. All they collect is dust.
 
I save the box long enough to know I'm not going to immediately have to return it or send it in for factory work. Pistol boxes and such I keep, just take up less space. If I had more space I might keep them, but like most people - we're in a contant state of backing up against space overflow and always need to get rid of stuff.
 
Tilos said:
Exactly, thanks for posting the pic.
Don't know the reason for the furring strips behind the shelf brackets though.

Gun boxes

Ya, ya been discussed a bunch. From my readings on here it seems if the gun is high value save the box. What about $200 22 rifles or $300 shotguns?
www.thehighroad.org
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Me neither….didn’t ask the builder 30 years ago.
 
Save them all. I tossed most of my boxs after I was sure the guns were in good order. Now all my guns are worth significantly more in original box. I couldn't have imagined it then.
 
I had a rat move into my garage one winter. After nesting in the gun-stuff cabinet, it made the decision to toss the majority of my gun boxes for me.

I now keep the hard cases that come with some guns, and old S&W revolver boxes because those really can add up, but the rest I just don’t have room for.

Stay safe.
 
I have a box from a gun I bought from Walmart, Jax. Fl., in 1996.
That box is now worth more than what I paid for the gun that was in it...
And that gun is still in that box, unfired. :uhoh:
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It's an non-catalogued Ruger 10/22 Stainless Steel with a Mannlicher "Z-wood laminated" stock.
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Armybrat said:
Used to have a little collection of about 35-40 boxed die cast metal cars. Gave most away to grandkids, so these are all I have left.
Might give those to my brother who has a couple of vintage Mercedes in his garage.

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My second car was a 190SL, paid all of $1K for a 1960 model in 1967.

Goes for a little bit more now.
 
A passed on now friend was a gun dealer and one day while we were chewing the fat I complained that I had never liked the magna grips on one of my S&W revolvers. He asked me if I had ever heard anyone say they liked them as he hadn't. Most people replaced them as I did.

I keep cardboard gun boxes long enough to decide the gun isn't going to be returned to the maker to correct a malfunction. I have a few plastic pistol cases stacked in the top of my garage but that's it. I have never made a penny on a gun sale by having the box it came in.
 
Tilos said:
I have a box from a gun I bought from Walmart, Jax. Fl., in 1996.
That box is now worth more than what I paid for the gun that was in it...
And that gun is still in that box, unfired. :uhoh:
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It's an non-catalogued Ruger 10/22 Stainless Steel with a Mannlicher "Z-wood laminated" stock.
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sweet! got a pic?
 
1KPerDay said:
sweet! got a pic?
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Looked on GB for the gun or pic and only found current distributer special guns that are Mannlicher/laminated black, some older guns that are laminated in differing wood tones and a few that are Stainless.
No pic but I may drag it out and take a couple.
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Last time I traded the manager told me no box was a hundred dollar deduct. Went back home to get it
 
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JTHunter said:
Axis II - several years ago, I asked 2 vendors at a local gun show about a gun I inherited. It wasn't NIB and I have fired it but the caliber is unusual (.32-20), expensive, relatively low powered, and hard to find. Both vendors checked their assorted books and, for the age and condition of the gun, classed it at 95-98%. Both asked if I had the original box (I didn't) as that would have boosted the value to 98-100% as only a tiny bit of the bluing was gone from the tip of the barrel. They said that this was from being put in a leather holster a number of times.
It's a S&W “Mod. of 1905 – 4th change” with a 6" barrel. Manufactured from 1915-1940 with a serial number ranging from 65,701 to 144,684. We figure this one was made in the mid 1930s as the number is 111xxx.
I tend to keep the boxes of the handguns I buy now (didn't use to) as you never know. Long gun boxes don't get saved unless very special.
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Those vendors are full of it! The condition of the gun is rated solely on the gun itself. The condition of the box is a separate issue. The absence of the original box in no way detracts from the rated condition of the gun.

That is quite a nice piece you have there, and quite valuable.
 
Riomouse911 said:
I had a rat move into my garage one winter. After nesting in the gun-stuff cabinet, it made the decision to toss the majority of my gun boxes for me.
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Reading this thread that was honestly the first thing that popped into my mind. I live rural and while I do have some barn cats that are mass murders some are quite worthless. Therefor at times we will get a field mouse in the garage, etc.

For decades I have taken the guns out of the box and everything else goes up in the attic as it came. I probably have had mouse condos up there if I were to dig around. Luckily I dont buy many guns that come in plain cardboard boxes. Course they could make short work of the cheap plastic cases too.
 
tarosean said:
Reading this thread that was honestly the first thing that popped into my mind. I live rural and while I do have some barn cats that are mass murders some are quite worthless. Therefor at times we will get a field mouse in the garage, etc.

For decades I have taken the guns out of the box and everything else goes up in the attic as it came. I probably have had mouse condos up there if I were to dig around. Luckily I dont buy many guns that come in plain cardboard boxes. Course they could make short work of the cheap plastic cases too.
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The only plus about the rat roomer I had was the nest it made in my ex-wifes’ wedding dress box..

Didn’t bother me too much when she moved out, took her stuff and found that little present. :thumbup:

Stay safe.
 
I usually keep all handgun boxes but not long gun. I don't really know why I keep the handgun boxes. Just do. I'm not a gun collector, just a gun hoarder. I've never sold a gun so I have no idea if the box makes any difference in the $. I know I wouldn't pay more for the box.
 
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