I know a guy who is an auctioneer and also owns a gun store. He takes every cheap M94 that comes in the store and puts them in the estate auctions he does. Then when he advertises the auction he purposely doesn't get into detail about the M94's, he just says "old Winchester lever action". It brings them in everytime!
Before my father passed away he put a value on every gun he owned (lots) and let any of the 8 kids buy anything they wanted with the money going to the estate. None of them wanted any so we all agreed on a total price and I wrote out 7 checks, one to each of my brothers and sisters for 1/8th the amount. We've seen way to many families ripped up over the estate of a parent to let it happen to us.
