Buying guns then never shooting them?

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Originally Posted by MikePal

It's all about the market....really old guns do far better being sold down south where there are more collectors with deep pockets. If you leave them in an Estate you'll get better return for them in an auction house in the US than one here. A friends buddy passed and his instructions were for his widow to contact the auction house in the US and sell the collection there. Not a bad deal, his lifetime hobby of collecting netted her over $1 million US..

At the last Carp Gun show I was at..I bought a few things from a lady that was left her husband's Hunting Stuff and she wanted it to go to a good home. She had it priced right and sold a lot....but if in the end she got $2K she would have been lucky.

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Yep, need to find the right buyer.

Wish some one would "impulse sell" an older 7600 in 270 caliber......been looking for ever

I have one but not for sale. Great all around gun for deer, moose and bear.

A man should have a hobby ?

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Originally Posted by SMcK

Wish some one would "impulse sell" an older 7600 in 270 caliber......been looking for ever

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Look on Gun nutz there is a model 6 on there now in .270, same as 760 or 7600 only a little fancier with monte carlo stock and a little more checkering, actually there is also a 7600 in .270 on Canadian gun nutz as well.

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Originally Posted by jlmorgan

Look on Gun nutz there is a model 6 on there now in .270, same as 760 or 7600 only a little fancier with monte carlo stock and a little more checkering, actually there is also a 7600 in .270 on Canadian gun nutz as well.

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Lots of 270s around, now find me one in 35 Whelen with a 22in barrel.

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Originally Posted by Fox

I see this in the buy and sell sections all the time, CGN has a lot of them.

Guys that are not dealers are selling guns that "I never fired".

I am not being critical of it but I am curious as to how many people go out and buy guns just to resell them? Seems odd to me.

I am not speaking of collectible arms, hunting arms.

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I have buddies that will build up a gun - new stock or stock mod's, upgraded trigger, base, rings, scope then fall out of love and then sell to finance the next project. Just have to be there with a pile of cash when they are looking to sell. Also happens quite a but with pistols.......they buy and shoot 100 or 200 rds then decide to sell.

Some guys collect beer cans ,some tools they never use, whatever at least they are worth something if you sell them..... my beer can collection isnt! LOL