Ever feel like reducing down to just a few firearms?

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I am down to just a handful or so of rifle calibers.
22, 22mag, 223, 243, 30-30 and 6.5cm except for the hunting calibers 243 and 30-30 and one old mossberg 340 these are all target quality rifles. I do also have an itch for a 45/70 though.
Handguns I have mostly standard calibers 22 and 22 wmr, 38/357, 380, 9mm, 45 acp and colt. I have one little 32 ina sw long revolver I couldn’t pass up also.

I did get rid of a few calibers over the years but I am pretty happy where I am now. Except the 45/70 falling block is still kind of itchy.

I guess I have thought about it , did it, then added a few so I’m a maybe.

of course then there are shotguns to consider
 
I'll add perspective from a guy who didn't come from a family that owned guns. I don't have a gun my grandpa hunted with (neither hunted) or that my dad carried (he did have a revolver but sold it when I was little), no tradition of shooting, hunting or anything like that. Guns are a tangible link to our past that if you don't have grandpa's single shot shotgun or dad's hunting rifle, is missed . by the time I die I plan to have heirloom quality firearms to give each of my children (2), each of my nieces and nephews (9), plus any grand kids & great grandkids I have by then. I better start buying more...
 
I had accumulated (and collected) at one time 105 guns - mostly S&Ws. I realized there were at least 50 guns I had never shot. I am in the process of a purge, and have 55 of them going up in an auction in April. I sold 10 to friends and neighbors. I've been passing family heirloom guns to my son and nephew recently.

I have 35 remaining. I kept most of the special things I collected (S&W Triple-Lock, S&W Model 1917, gold plated 1903 Colt, S&W 2nd Model HE 44, S&W 2nd Model HE .455, my Dad's Highway Patrolman, etcetera).

It has been a lot less of a "tug" than I thought it would be.
 
I spent most of my working life buying and shooting firearms. I am now retired amd plan on shooting lots more. Everyone should have 10+ .22 rifles and as many pistols and revolvers. Then on to other calibers, both long guns and handguns. As long as I am healthy enough to shoot and enjoy them I choose to be selfish and keep them. My family knows basically what they are worth and besides they all are shooters as well.

Now I am waiting for gunny to respond to this thread.:D
 
Obturation said:
by the time I die I plan to have heirloom quality firearms to give each of my children (2), each of my nieces and nephews (9), plus any grand kids & great grandkids I have by then. I better start buying more...
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I have similar goals. We need a thread about which current production firearms will become future classics.
 
Old Dog said:
In the end, it's all just stuff. I want my family and friends to be partying at my wake, not still be going through the dusty attic, garage and gun safes trying to figure out how to get rid of all my "stuff."
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Same here; I want them to take some of my ashes, load them into some shotgun shells and give me a great send-off! (and not having to spend a year going through stuff, probate, etc.)
 
Don't get me started on the lawyers -- waiting in their boring offices to have a five-minute meeting, having to spend several hundred bucks an hour just so they can farm out the work on all the forms and documents to their paralegals. Free tip: have a lawyer before you die, determine whether you need to set up any kind of trust(s), do your estate planning beforehand and use an experienced probate lawyer. Don't leave this to your spouse or children for after you pass unexpectedly, who will likely already be emotional wrecks and not thinking too clearly.
 
Phydeaux642 said:
Odd statement coming from a "gun guy". Very odd.
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I was not the one concerned with political winds to begin with as a reason to buy, sell or select a firearm. If a fellow wants to sell his firearms based on such that is his/her right, no judgement required. I will not be selling mine.
 
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I have bought and sold a few guns over the years to get what I wanted with an eye to increasing the herd as time goes by. This month I am going to buy a safe big enough
to hold about 30% more guns than I have right now. With those empty spaces I am sure I will feel the need to fill them.
 
GAF said:
I have bought and sold a few guns over the years to get what I wanted with an eye to increasing the herd as time goes by. This month I am going to buy a safe big enough
to hold about 30% more guns than I have right now. With those empty spaces I am sure I will feel the need to fill them.
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plan on 100%, especially if your guns have scopes, protruding grips, etc those guns take up 3 spaces for every one you have like that.
 
When I first got married and we both had good jobs, I bought at least a gun a month. Sometimes 4-5. Mostly rifles. We later had kids and relocated. I took a pay cut and the wife stayed home with the kids. After that I sold a gun a month to pay the bills. I finally got a pay raise about the time I was down to a reasonable amount of guns. Due to political winds I have consolidated into a few core calibers I stack ammo deep for. I still buy guns but don’t deviate much from my calibers. I still have a lot of stuff outside of the box. But I don’t add calibers often. 223/5.56 308 45acp 9mm 12ga is what I’ll buy. I have some 22’s, 300blk, 460r, 7.62x54, 20ga, 16ga, 270, 30-30, 22-250, I’m sure there’s something else in there, but I’m trying to abstain from having to stock pile ammo in anything else.
Trading isn’t near as fun and easy as it was when we had the FB gun groups. Kinda hard to sell guns around here now.
 
Let me put it another way that might be more clear. If monetary investment and return on investment are a consideration to a persons gun purchase choices then certainly many factors including "political winds" might play a role in the value of any given gun or type of gun. Like the stock market as an investment, and the particular stocks purchased, politics can be a factor in that speculation. Either for the near term or long term for both. Because I did not purchase my guns, any of them, modern sporting or any other sort, based on monetary speculation and hope for return on investment the "political winds" are not a concern to me as to value. I bought what I bought based on my uses and likes and preferences, not some long away speculative value. And since I plan to give mine away to relatives, friends and persons important in my life when the time comes, monetary value still plays no role in the choice of who gets what.
 
I'm going the exact opposite direction. I'm building more rifles than ever these days. As the saying goes, get while the gettin' is good. Not that parts are easy to find, but who knows what will be prohibited in the not too distant future. So I'm working diligently on building out as many AR style rifles as budget allows for the foreseeable future.
 
I have a friend who has two sons. I plan on having the three of them over soon to pick which of my guns they would like. Those I shall make a note of in the will and keep.
All others will be sold either Before or After as, other than my wife, I have no family members to leave my guns to.
 
No, most of the ones I ditched and never looked back were polymer, and then there's AMT hardballer and Javelina howlers at the moon. :)
 
Sometimes I wish I just had a shotgun,a rifle and a ,well in my case a .22 and a 4wd,it would make hunting a lot easier a me a better shot,so they say! ( beware the man with one gun.)but I am a fair shot now.
 
In the last two years I have sold and traded multiple guns to fund higher end (for me) models that I wanted more than what I owned. I'm happier with the guns I now have to shoot, and they take up less space in my home.

For me, it's been a win win.
 
gnappi said:
No, most of the ones I ditched and never looked back were polymer, and then there's AMT hardballer and Javelina howlers at the moon. :)
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Making a hard baller run is one of the most fun projects I’ve done.
 
Yes!

I got a long gun on Armslist now. Another may be posted as well. Thinking of reducing myself to just two 22LR rifles.

Ideally I’d sell the shotguns first. Then the reloading components after.
Might even part with all of my reloading gear!

But strangely Armslist is very quiet!

I’ve been purging a lot of things from my life lately. Part of this selling is me being realistic of what I really have time for... I don’t have time to turkey hunt. I don’t have time to properly deer hunt. But I can make time for squirrels due to generous season lengths.
 
Think of it this way, if you sold 100 firearms for an average price of $450 each, you would have $45,000 to spend on something you would actually pull out of the garage and use, like a new RV, or a BOAT, or even a small CABIN somewhere pretty. Those things will give you and your family far more memories than firearms will.
 
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