Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Bought my grail rifle, now sell it?

Thanks! I do love nice .22s. That sporter is my favorite.

I am not hurting for a new hunting rifle.. My favorite is a Win 1894 saddle ring carbine in 32 win spc from 1909. It has its dings and a great patina. It oozes soul and history. I love hunting with it. If the weather isnt great, I use an early Contender with a 10" 357 Herrett barrel. A 1st gen Colt Woodsman for small game.

I havent kept any safe queens. I do get enjoyment from using them. I think my issue is that someone kept this unfired and as new for 51 years, and I cant imagine seeing another one like it. She is over the hill and seems a shame to deflower her now. Lol.

Ive been in a similar situation several times, and have always decided to take it hunting. The joy it brings to me is worth the cost in depreciation.

And if you do hunt with it until the end, it will probably still be worth what you paid for it. Scuffs and all.

Another factor to consider is the type of hunting that you do. A stand hunter won't usually put a lot of wear and tear on a rifle each year, while a stalker or mountain hunter may add quite a bit.

Maybe it's your bluebird day stand rifle. It's fun to have something nice to look at when the animals aren't cooperating

Unless you need the money why do anything at this point, it's a long time until hunting season. Give yourself time to think about, once it is used then the decision is irreversible, in a few months or years you may decide what you really want to do with it and you will have given yourself enough time to make (hopefully) the right decision.

drover

It has a lot of appeal.
When you go to your local rifle range. just put it in the gun rack when you go to the restroom and it will be gone when you get back. Problem solved.

You were blessed with this rifle, you should count your blessings and use it.

Be thankful.

Go and shoot the cowboy hell out of it.

If its the "one" youve always wanted im also in the camp of using it. Let it bring you joy and happiness every you look down at it in your hands when you handle it.

Ive got some exquisite leverguns and an beautiful old Rigby 416 Mauser. Yes sir i use them

Tough decision. Good luck with that! I'm too poor to ever so much as think about buying something so nice, so my problem kind of solves itself. Ironically my Grendel AR is probably my most expensive gun (all items are mid-high tier). I am inclined to favor preservation or "special tag" / ceremonial use only. Though I appreciate the artistry of firearms they are tools after all.

This sounds like a vaginal issue !!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are male deflower ASAP

if you are female sell and shade your eyes.

Someday, you'll leave it to a child or grandchild. It'll mean more to them if their grandpa used it and it has some hunting stories to go with it.

I have one, I hunt with it. It was meant to be hunted with.






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In todays market prices are crazy.... If you got it for a very good price, but are hesitant to hunt with it., sell it for a profit, and buy a couple other things. We have all done that.

IMO there isn’t a Remington 700 out there that has any true collector value. Some might be nicer than others, but they are all utilitarian hunting rifles. Now if it had some historical or famous hand engravings, or made for an influential historical figure maybe, but that rifle??? Shoot it and enjoy it. When your done with it, maybe it will have some honest use marks on it, but it will be a good, well cared for rifle that was used as intended.

Now if you aren’t going to enjoy using it, sell it to some sucker that thinks it’s exceptionally unique and charge them accordingly....then pick up something you will enjoy using. JMO.

When I first got my Rem 700 mtn rifle back in 1990 it came in with the most beautiful wood I'd ever seen. The gunshop owner and another fella were there and both offered me a profit if I would let one of them have it. I declined but later at home I went crazy for a few days trying to work up the courage to scope it and shoot it. If it shot mediocre I'd offer it back,but it shot as good as it looked. The first time hunting with it I was nervous, till I tagged out. The first time I was caught in the rain I fretted over its cleaning like a new parent. 62 head of game later (whitetail, mulies, antelope) as well as a few varmints for myself, wife, kids,nephews, and once a brother, I can tell you hunt with it. It will come to have its own name, it will be desired by all who get to use it, and it will become your friend. Sitting on stand with it now I often talk to it. We have both gotten silver gray around the muzzle together and it's no longer a tool, it's my companion.

THIS

I had a great friend who had a beautiful custom rifle built on a Springfield action. It was a tremendous sacrifice at the time for him as he had gone through a devastating divorce. It really was something special. He carried it to the stand in a soft case to protect it. But he still hunted it! He killed some amazing deer with that rifle. His grandson now owns it and the pictures of his grandfather’s trophies.
Hunt the rifle. Take every precaution you need to feel comfortable to
take it afield but hunt it.
GreggH

Beautiful rifle! I only own one rifle that was sort of a “dream rifle” instead of just a tool. I know it would be “worth more” to someone else if it was unfired and in the box, but not to me. I lay it on a towel on the bench at the range. I don’t usually worry about stuff like that. It is pretty but I have found I enjoy it more when I look at it across my lap in a tree stand or the deer woods rather than in the gun safe. I don’t take it if I need to drag a rifle through a thicket. I have plenty of hunts where the chances of beating up a rifle are pretty slim. It isn’t my primary hunting rifle but I have killed a couple of deer with it and plan to use it in the future as well. That is when I enjoy it most.

Ultimately, I think you have to decide how you would enjoy it most.

Shoot it. You planned on using it till you die then passing it along. You are gonna be dead for a loooooong time, might as well enjoy it before then. After that you wont regret maybe scratching it a little...


You live once, who deserves it more?

I took all my “too pretty to hunt” kimbers and sold them and got into either ugly wood rifles or stainless synthetic guns.


I’m currently rebarrelling and restocking my first rifle, a savage 110 in 270. Never liked the round, stock was drilled off center barrel contacted one side and the other side had a gap that gravel would get stuck in, trigger was 7# with a 1/4” or creep... you get the idea.

It was given to me by my grandfather who won it in a $5 raffle. So I really couldn’t get rid of it. So I’m rebarrelling it to 35 whelen and putting it in a B&C stock. Make it something I wanna take in the field!!!

If It can’t be used for whatever reason I don’t want it in my
Safe.

This had something to do with my hesitation. IMO I got it for a great price. A buddy at work already offered me double for it, and they have been selling online for a good bit more than that yet. I could make a tidy profit on it, but man, I already know I would rather have it than a little extra cash.

But there has been some terrific advice and insight on here. I love it. I am planning on keeping it. Probably breaking it out in the summer for some range time, and using it for fair weather hunts. We rough it pretty good on our big hunting trips and the weather gets real nasty so I may be waiting on bringing it to camp. Or maybe not!