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Do we overvalue sentimental value of our guns?
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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1581984" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>I have guns with sentimental value. When we first moved west just after marriage the only guns I had were junk because that is all I could afford. Gradually I bought better and slaved over them to make them the best they could possibly be. I shot lots of game with them. Now I can afford the best and I have a few in that category but what they represent is 40 years of hard work more than carbon fibre and stainless steel. What they are worth to anyone else is whatever the market will bear. Someday they will be sold for pennies on the dollar just like my wife's collection of China and all the fancy tools in my shop. Sentiment is a personal thing and when the person dies it dies with them. So should the sadness. I firmly believe that when you protect the past more than the future you have no future. I value the memories and emotions those guns create but I would junk them all in a second if I thought the world would be a better place for it. Life is about tomorrow not yesterday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1581984, member: 91402"] I have guns with sentimental value. When we first moved west just after marriage the only guns I had were junk because that is all I could afford. Gradually I bought better and slaved over them to make them the best they could possibly be. I shot lots of game with them. Now I can afford the best and I have a few in that category but what they represent is 40 years of hard work more than carbon fibre and stainless steel. What they are worth to anyone else is whatever the market will bear. Someday they will be sold for pennies on the dollar just like my wife's collection of China and all the fancy tools in my shop. Sentiment is a personal thing and when the person dies it dies with them. So should the sadness. I firmly believe that when you protect the past more than the future you have no future. I value the memories and emotions those guns create but I would junk them all in a second if I thought the world would be a better place for it. Life is about tomorrow not yesterday. [/QUOTE]
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