Every man's fear is that the wife will sell the guns/fishing equipment/ham radios for what he TOLD her he paid for it!
Once again N9NWO -
nonsense. Maybe some men, maybe even
most men lie to their wives about what they pay for "guns/fishing equipment/ham radios," but not "every" man does. I don't.
Besides that, my wife is the one that ordered my Shiloh-Sharps .45-110 for me for our 25th wedding anniversary (25 years ago BTW) so I have to assume she knows what she paid for it. But if she doesn't remember, I'm sure she can look it up because she's a great Records Retention Specialist - that was part of her job during her working years.
My wife also knows about what I paid for every gun I've ever bought for her, like the Ruger "American Rimfire" .22LR I bought for her birthday last year. Like me, she is a guns and hunting enthusiast, and she has just as many guns as I do - maybe more. I know for sure she has more fishing equipment than I do. I don't like fish or fishing - she
does.
At any rate, to answer your question - I figure if I die before my wife, she would probably disperse my favorite guns amongst family members - one of our two daughters is into guns and hunting just like her mom, and all 3 of
her sons (she doesn't have any daughters) are too. Our other daughter, the one that is a wheel with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, doesn't hunt (I don't know where we went wrong with that girl
), so I doubt my wife would give her one of my hunting guns. She might give her one of my self/home defense handguns though. Or maybe she would give her a shotgun. As for the rest of my guns, especially the ones with no sentimental attachments, my wife would probably sell them.
It would be the same way if my wife went before me. It would be hard, but I'd probably give her favorite guns to our daughters and grandsons. For that matter, our hunting daughter already
has one of my wife's 7mm-08s, and
her oldest son (our oldest grandson) already has my wife's
other 7mm-08.
My wife's favorite hunting rifle now is a highly customized M-70 Winchester 7mm Rem Mag. That would probably be the rifle that would be hard for me to part with if my wife went first.