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What's this "selling guns" you speak of?
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Browning BSS Sporter (straight English style stock) in 20 gauge. I saw one of those in LL Bean in Maine a few yrs ago. It was well, well used, still tight but showing lots of hard miles. Those are a far nicer gun than the std BSS. I would have bought it but for being a CDN in a foreign land.
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My first 870. I was young and dumb.
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Sometimes though, it just becomes “stuff”. I have a Marlin 336, unfired, with original box, etc, that I bought around 2003 or so. I like it, I just never got around to shooting it. I have plenty of other rifles that I hunt with.
They have gone up appreciably in value, and that means it is relegated to being a safe queen - I’m never going to shoot an unfired Marlin 336 at this point.
So it is just “stuff”, taking up space. So the question becomes do you keep carrying the baggage and hope it goes up even more in value? The older I get, the less I like “stuff” that isn’t used.
If you have ever seen the movie Fight Club, there is an awesome line, “The things you own end up owning you.”
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Nula in .260 Rem. I didn't really have a use for it anymore, and it needed to be hunted properly. Cool rifle and the design was defiantly ahead of its time.
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Like the OP, I want to experience as many different guns as possible. I have neither space nor $ to keep them all so in order to buy, I must sell. Most I don't miss but I really wish I had kept the two model 700 Classics in 6.5x55 and .35 Whelan. They both shot very well, fit me perfectly and comprised a perfect North American two rifle battery.
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I tend to agree - I have only sold when I needed money (young dad with a stay-at-home wife in the case of the 9422) or when I was truly done with the firearm (like a Mossberg 835). Something like your Mossberg I would probably just give that to a kid or a friend.
I am MAGA.
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I am in the midst of selling a Win Model 70 "Shot show Special" with a 4X piece of maple on it......haven't even received the check yet and am already crying about it......Just have too many rifles and need to thin the herd a bit.....
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A Charter Arms .44 special. The 3 inch Bulldog.
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For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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I still have all the guns given to me as a youngster. I will never sell the guns I got for Christmas or birthdays or whatever before I was a teenager. I sell and trade only the guns I have acquired as an adult on my own.
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Ruger 96/44. Loved that little lever gun. Sold it during a moon 🌙 fit!
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Nary a regret.
They're just tools to me.
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Win 94 classic. 26 inch octagon, good figured stock.
1920 grey winchester 94 1956 win94
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Colt Anaconda Single Six in .32 H&R Magnum
Save our kids - shoot your local drug dealer.
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None. That’s the only to build a collection 😁
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I had a C grade 700 in 25-06 with a heavy barrel. I sold it like a Dumass. I sold an Iver Henriksen rifle like a Dumass too, but DesertMuleDeer was kind enough to sell it back to me.
I hesitated buying a Keith Stegall 7 mag, gone when I made my mind up to buy it. That bothers me a lot.
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Belgium Browning Sweet 16.
Stevens 410 SxS I bought off the neighbor at Christmas. Guy at work wanted one to cut down for a truck gun. What a waste…..
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20 ga H&R Topper Jr., Christmas present from dad when I was 6. Some worthless [bleep] stole it from my truck.
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S&W 686 sold for $250 in 1994 because it was too big to conceal.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I didn't sell it, the ex-wife did before I was able to return from Germany after divorce.
Ruger 77 tang safety, 7x57 with Leupold 4x. Absolutely gorgeous stock on that rifle, and shot very well. Think about that one a lot. The old man bought and gave that rifle to me in 1980 or so.
Guns are responsible for killing as much as Rosie O'Donnel's fork is responsible for her being FAT.
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