As long as we're on a sentimental journey together what do you think will happen to all your mounts that you have a ton of money and memories in? I have asked my kids to pass them on to cabelas or some other sports store. My kids don't hunt either so I plan on going to hunters safety courses and giving them to the kids I feel did a good job and the ones that look like they don't have much or no father there with them and a mother that is doing her best to fill the role.
Do we overvalue sentimental value of our guns?
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WildRose
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Had he instilled the same lover of the firearms in his kids as he did greenbacks they would have kept passing for generations.
He didn't overvalue them, the kids undervalued them.
WildRose
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Good move on your part.
smokepoler
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Ask the guys at any LGS. Inheritors are constantly bringing in Dad's guns for cash.
Same with second homes in warm weather states. Who wants the added expense of insuring, maintaining and storing things they don't want. My will says when I die, all property will be sold at auction and all proceeds divided equally. My grandfather did it that way and at the time, all of them still were on good terms with each other.
Same with second homes in warm weather states. Who wants the added expense of insuring, maintaining and storing things they don't want. My will says when I die, all property will be sold at auction and all proceeds divided equally. My grandfather did it that way and at the time, all of them still were on good terms with each other.
huntintoo
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Over Valued for Sentimental reasons ........ Yes! I have sellers remorse even if I'm trading up. My wife laughs at me not being able to sell guns!
They say you can't take them with you ........................ Naw! I'm taking at least one!!
They say you can't take them with you ........................ Naw! I'm taking at least one!!
STEPHEN TRAVERS
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STEPHEN TRAVERS
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My farther was a police officer and when he passed away 8 year ago he left me his only 2 pistols they were old I will probably never fired them just put them with all of mine but when I do leave this world they can do any with my 50 guns but those 2 handgun will go to police department he worked for and I hope they keep they in the ln the show case they have they are both over 60 years old
earl1704
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I do genealogy for my family and can trace my roots back to the Revolutionary War. I can find birth, death, land records, newspaper articles and sometimes even pictures. But what is almost impossible to find is WHO they were what they valued what was their life like, (although from records you can guess but only guess). I can tell you where I bought each of my guns and why, I have tried to instill in my sons a sense of what they mean to me and a sense of history. I have a Civil War sword passed down through my family from my second Great Grandfather. I know it was their with my Great Great Grandfather at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Its value in dollars very little, but to me priceless.
Yes guns are just tools, but they are a part of who we are and how we lived. The question is not do they mean something to our children, but have we instilled in our children what they meant to US, who WE are. Maybe our sons and daughters will not value them like we do but someday a grandchild or great grandchild may ask who did this gun belong to? Who was he? If you want to be remembered to generations to come write down why they mean something to you. It tells a story of who you were.
Your kids may sell them seconds after your dead but you can't control that. Most of my guns are just guns but several mean something to me and I have written down in my will who they go to and why and what was I thinking at the time.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
Yes guns are just tools, but they are a part of who we are and how we lived. The question is not do they mean something to our children, but have we instilled in our children what they meant to US, who WE are. Maybe our sons and daughters will not value them like we do but someday a grandchild or great grandchild may ask who did this gun belong to? Who was he? If you want to be remembered to generations to come write down why they mean something to you. It tells a story of who you were.
Your kids may sell them seconds after your dead but you can't control that. Most of my guns are just guns but several mean something to me and I have written down in my will who they go to and why and what was I thinking at the time.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
Dr. Vette
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A Civil War sword with provenance?
It's probably worth quite a bit more than you suspect.
Fred G Cook
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James Bailey
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For me, I have guns that belonged to my grandfather that are priceless. In the end, I can't know what my grandkids will do with them because they never knew Pawpaw. He instilled in us a sense of family and respect for each other's things that makes me feel the way I do. I can only hope that I am able to be the kind of man he was and instill those values in my kids and grandkids. In the end, it's not the guns that matter, but the memories that go along with them. That being said, I like to believe that he smiles when a take one out of the safe and ripe it down again when it doesn't really need it, and especially when I use one to put meat in the pot. I believe that we'll be together again one day to talk about it and just maybe we'll get to smile together as we look down on little Colter doing the same . "We shall meet by and by."
. "We shall meet by and by."
whirlwindjml
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I am going to get tags and a string and hang on all guns in the safe and heirlooms. Putting street price on it for wife and who it should go to if she's willing to let them have it. Ultimately I should have been putting the money into savings but I have dreams and like to live a little.
I hope my boys will value and keep some things but they may not like handloading ECT so who knows. At 2 years old though I have them seating the bullets on the brass before I seat them and so forth. At least they'll have option to keep something and cash out the rest. And At least they'll have an idea of what to get for it. My grandpa's knives ECT are also needing a tag and his knife sharpening stones.
I find awsome stuff @ the junk stores and sometimes I think man....someone just put this in a goodwill?? I got an old keen kutter stag handle knife for .25 cents! Someones grandpa rolled in his grave.
I know my 66 bronco will cause fewd......
I hope my boys will value and keep some things but they may not like handloading ECT so who knows. At 2 years old though I have them seating the bullets on the brass before I seat them and so forth. At least they'll have option to keep something and cash out the rest. And At least they'll have an idea of what to get for it. My grandpa's knives ECT are also needing a tag and his knife sharpening stones.
I find awsome stuff @ the junk stores and sometimes I think man....someone just put this in a goodwill?? I got an old keen kutter stag handle knife for .25 cents! Someones grandpa rolled in his grave.
I know my 66 bronco will cause fewd......
I think the answer to this question isn`t the same for everyone. I have guns that were my fathers and my grandfathers. They are priceless to me. I won`t even put a price tag on them when people ask. I have a son who also loves them and wants to have them some day. That being said for me if I get pleasure out of owning them and my son also gets pleasure from them why would I sell them? On the other hand if you don`t have anyone to pass them down to who wants them in that way and you get to a point where having them doesn`t mean that much to you then sell or give which ever is your preference them to someone who will appreciate them.
