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Originally posted by gambit123:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Please post a price. All WTS ads must have a price.

Hope this a joke I am not looking to sell, just asking for opinions

I was sitting here thinking how the hell could a member who has been here since 2009 think Para (who do know who he is, yes?) could think he was joking?

But then I looked...that's what happens when most of your posts are in the classifieds.

Well I am sorry if I offended you. Yes I know who he is but I don't need your judgment. Para just kill my account as well.

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Originally posted by gambit123:
Well I am sorry if I offended you. Yes I know who he is but I don't need your judgment. Para just kill my account as well.

Ooh, boy...

I will miss you guys. Just cause most of my posts were in the classifieds I still had a good time reading your posts. Goodnight fellows

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Originally posted by 4x5:
I'm in the same boat - out of my entire collection, there are only 2 or 3 handguns I regularly shoot. But, I just can't see myself ever selling anything - I know I would forever regret it. My taste in guns kind of goes in cycles, sometimes I like to admire my 1911, sometimes my Ruger Blackhawk, sometimes it's my HK or Sigs. Even though I don't shoot them, I still take pleasure in owning them. Plus, a couple of my kids have expressed interest in a few of my guns, and I'd like to be able to pass them on to them.

Same here. Sometimes I think about how much money is tied up in guns and what else I could do with it. But then I look at their sweet little faces staring up at me from the safe...

I think I understand the OP. You have several firearms that you don't shoot anymore and wanted opinions on whether to sell or hang on to them.

I look at firearms as an investment. Values often do not change much so if they are in very good condition, hanging on to them until a time in need is probably wise. If you need money now, or rolling them over together will allow you to buy something else that you want and will shoot, then have at it!

I have a ton of guns and magazines for each. There is a part of me who is getting to the point of wanting to sell off a large portion of it but then I always think that at this time I don't have to and the stroke of a pen could make it so I couldn't replace if I wanted or said pen stroke or market change could change the values exponentially.

At the end of the day I like the variety and until I NEED to I will probably sit on them.

Besides there is a tiny perverse part of me that wants my daughter or potential grandkids to have to clean out my house after I pass and have that moment of WTF. "What the hell did grandad need with all this crap".

I think for me, the reduced resale value can't compare with leaving them to the kids when I kick. I enjoy shooting my dad's 22 Diamondback or cleaning his Garands. It would have been a shame if he had to liquidate his collection even though he could have used to extra money near the end.

I try to buy guns I have a use for.

Maybe the guns you are thinking of selling still have a use, You just need to remind yourself and practice the use you originally had for them.

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Originally posted by muzzleloader:
I think for me, the reduced resale value can't compare with leaving them to the kids when I kick. I enjoy shooting my dad's 22 Diamondback or cleaning his Garands. It would have been a shame if he had to liquidate his collection even though he could have used to extra money near the end.

+1

This is what I was talking about in my post.

One of my most favorite topics ---

I'll take perhaps a less common view. I completely understand. I always sell things I don't use. Once in a blue moon I actually need that item again, but very very rarely. More often, it is a passing nostalgia or feeling that I wish I still had it, but in reality, even then I don't need it, and if I had it again, would likely soon sell it again.

I very much enjoy the faux-wealth of re-liquified cash. I often joke that I've been spending the same money for 20 years. In truth, there's very often a loss on the sale, but gathered over time, those losses to me are the cost of the enjoyment. Like a ski trip, or a golf vacation. My main passion now is watches, but I once greatly enjoyed collecting guns of various types. I've had some wonderful stuff. I now have a Glock 19. and a Ruger 10/22 youth that I may upgrade to a CZ452 very soon.

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (see signature line) isn't about minimalism for the sake of self-denial. In business or translated to "personal" application in one's life, it's about freeing resources -- time, brain cycles, people, dollars -- to do higher-value and/or more interesting things.

Collecting things is fun. I like to buy watches. But it's as fun for me to trip and tune down as it is to add. A casual chronograph trimmed for a casual diver watch that seems more fitting for the places I might go that suppose casual watches. Trim a Grand Seiko that I wear to work to add a Jaeger LeCoultre that I think I like more, which would also only be useful in the work mode. etc...

Two last quick thoughts. A friend's father once said (and it stuck with me), "The more you own, the more own's you". ...and finally, consider that if you owe money on a car, that could be paid by selling something you don't need/use/want, you are essentially financing that item at the rate of your highest % rate debt.

Hope that helps.

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Originally posted by gambit123:
Well I am sorry if I offended you. Yes I know who he is but I don't need your judgment. Para just kill my account as well.

Wait, what?

That was like watching Richard Hammond in a jet car! And why?

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Originally posted by gambit123:
I will miss you guys. Just cause most of my posts were in the classifieds I still had a good time reading your posts. Goodnight fellows

I may be wrong, but I really think there was some kidding going on. I hadn't read in this deep until now and see your member status on fire. Sorry to see it go this way... Hope it can be salvaged.

Well that escalated quickly.

I have done this 3 or four times. I usually do end up buying more guns. Almost never do i buy the same guns over again. It is a good way to revamp a collection into a new group. I am hovering at about the same number of rifles vs pistols. Yet i dont use rifles nearly, 10 to 1, as much as pistols.

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Originally posted by gambit123:
I will miss you guys. Just cause most of my posts were in the classifieds I still had a good time reading your posts. Goodnight fellows

Geez, dude, chill.

I can't speak for him, but, I'm fairly certain that was merely a caution from the boss. You're approaching dangerously close to a line with your question. One step further and it'll look a lot like trying to use The Lounge for selling, and circumventing several selling rules.

If you go over the line: Trust me: You'll know, in no uncertain terms, real fast.

As to your question: Dunno. Have only ever sold one firearm: The T/C with which I competed in handgun metal silhouette. Sometimes I regret it, sometimes not. Right now I have two handguns I'll probably never use again, and they don't have any particularly special meaning to me, so I'll probably eventually put them up for sale here.

And that brings me to my last point: If you screw up, just man up, admit it, apologize, then go forth and sin no more. Sigforum's rules really aren't onerous, the boss and membership are quite forgiving, and this really is the absolute best firearms forum on the Internet. Maybe the best forum of any kind, for those like us. One of the things that makes it great is it's a great place to buy and sell stuff. (And, I'll guarantee you: Riding herd on that aspect is no fun for the owner and his staff. So say "Thank you, Para.")

Don't shoot yourself in the foot over your ego.

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Originally posted by striker1:
I know a guy (late 50s) who auctioned a large collection and kept just a few guns. He felt like he was a slave to his possessions, and it was very freeing.

I try to keep the ones I actually use.

But there are a few that I have that I don't shoot. So, I am inconsistent.

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Originally posted by gambit123:
Well I am sorry if I offended you. Yes I know who he is but I don't need your judgment. Para just kill my account as well.

Damn, doesn't take much for you to take your ball and go home.

Take a deep breath.

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Back to the original question. I have a rule, if I haven't used it in six months, then I sell/trade/gift/donate it. I only own one gun I don't use regularly, a P228. It's not a safe queen or anything, I just have others that fill the same roll 229/M11-A1 so I prefer to put the wear on those instead.

I can tell you this I've never, not regretted selling a gun (other than a POS 10-22 I could never make work). Thin the heard of what you know you don't want or haven't shot in years, then reevaluate.

I have a rule, I don't sell a gun unless I'm replacing it with another gun.