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Do we overvalue sentimental value of our guns?
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<blockquote data-quote="Country Bumpkin" data-source="post: 1581995" data-attributes="member: 92230"><p>Here's my plan. I'm 34 now with a 7 year old Son and an almost 5 year old Daughter. Both love to go shoot their crickets with me. Sometimes we break out the black guns, 9mm AR's that don't kick and are a "blast" to shoot. My father in law has a huge safe and doesn't have enough room to contain his collection. Some of his guns don't mean much to me now, but that's because I haven't had the opportunity to get the story surrounding them yet. I plan to understand all of their stories. </p><p></p><p>My Wife and I keep a leather bound journal for each of our kids. We write to them about once a month, telling of fun adventures we take them on, "first" experiences, birthdays and such. We will give them their journals when they turn 21, hopefully after they have a drink with Mom and Dad and before they go off to celebrate with their friends. I want our children to know about their upbringing. We also have a plan to share momentous photos and videos of their childhood. </p><p></p><p>We have a rule in our family, guns never get sold or traded. I have broken it a few times for guns that truly won't shoot or bring me no joy, but for the most part we keep them all. My plan is to sneak into their journal written accounts of the guns that have sentimental value to me. This includes guns that I have inherited that don't mean much to me, but that I understand have a "family value associated with them". For example, there's a couple shotguns and rifles that I have that were given to my father by his uncle (Dad's uncle was really the first serious big game hunter in our family). My Dad was fortunate to have received first hand accounts of these guns from his Uncle, stories of his first Western exploits, bucks that got away and "deer camp" stories. I have been told these stories by my father and I know that one day I will inherit them all. I haven't yet decided what to do with them as I'm currently at a "function over form" stage of my life and not all of these are suitable for the types of hunting I do (inhospitable terrain and weather, heavy somewhat inaccurate rifles - not great for my style of Western backpack elk hunting). I assuredly will NOT get rid of them, but I question whether I'd be better off rebarreling and fitting lightweight stocks so that they can be used by myself and my children (to create new memories with). </p><p></p><p>Regardless of what I decide to do with them, I will be writing stories about all of them in our kids journals so that they have written accounts of why they are important to our family. I hope to instill that sentimental value to them. With that, I'll also be honest about the ones that don't hold much value to us. I understand that my children may not want to, or have the space, to keep 50-60 guns each when my father in law and I are gone. I hope that I can leave them with enough history to make educated decisions of which guns they are sentimentally attached to and which ones they'd be willing to part with if they ever feel the need to thin the herd. Either way, to this point, I think we are doing a good job of "passing down the hunting and shooting heritage" to our kids. They are both itching to go on their first legal hunts. I take them with me turkey and bear hunting. We aren't very successful but they enjoy it and learn every time we go. </p><p></p><p>I hope that they will keep the ones with memorable stories or experiences attached to them. I hope that a few will recall fond memories afield with Mom, Dad and both Grampas</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Country Bumpkin, post: 1581995, member: 92230"] Here’s my plan. I’m 34 now with a 7 year old Son and an almost 5 year old Daughter. Both love to go shoot their crickets with me. Sometimes we break out the black guns, 9mm AR’s that don’t kick and are a “blast” to shoot. My father in law has a huge safe and doesn’t have enough room to contain his collection. Some of his guns don’t mean much to me now, but that’s because I haven’t had the opportunity to get the story surrounding them yet. I plan to understand all of their stories. My Wife and I keep a leather bound journal for each of our kids. We write to them about once a month, telling of fun adventures we take them on, “first” experiences, birthdays and such. We will give them their journals when they turn 21, hopefully after they have a drink with Mom and Dad and before they go off to celebrate with their friends. I want our children to know about their upbringing. We also have a plan to share momentous photos and videos of their childhood. We have a rule in our family, guns never get sold or traded. I have broken it a few times for guns that truly won’t shoot or bring me no joy, but for the most part we keep them all. My plan is to sneak into their journal written accounts of the guns that have sentimental value to me. This includes guns that I have inherited that don’t mean much to me, but that I understand have a “family value associated with them”. For example, there’s a couple shotguns and rifles that I have that were given to my father by his uncle (Dad’s uncle was really the first serious big game hunter in our family). My Dad was fortunate to have received first hand accounts of these guns from his Uncle, stories of his first Western exploits, bucks that got away and “deer camp” stories. I have been told these stories by my father and I know that one day I will inherit them all. I haven’t yet decided what to do with them as I’m currently at a “function over form” stage of my life and not all of these are suitable for the types of hunting I do (inhospitable terrain and weather, heavy somewhat inaccurate rifles - not great for my style of Western backpack elk hunting). I assuredly will NOT get rid of them, but I question whether I’d be better off rebarreling and fitting lightweight stocks so that they can be used by myself and my children (to create new memories with). Regardless of what I decide to do with them, I will be writing stories about all of them in our kids journals so that they have written accounts of why they are important to our family. I hope to instill that sentimental value to them. With that, I’ll also be honest about the ones that don’t hold much value to us. I understand that my children may not want to, or have the space, to keep 50-60 guns each when my father in law and I are gone. I hope that I can leave them with enough history to make educated decisions of which guns they are sentimentally attached to and which ones they’d be willing to part with if they ever feel the need to thin the herd. Either way, to this point, I think we are doing a good job of “passing down the hunting and shooting heritage” to our kids. They are both itching to go on their first legal hunts. I take them with me turkey and bear hunting. We aren’t very successful but they enjoy it and learn every time we go. I hope that they will keep the ones with memorable stories or experiences attached to them. I hope that a few will recall fond memories afield with Mom, Dad and both Grampas [/QUOTE]
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