onpoint
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Just a observation. I spend a lot of time all across the net on gun auction sites, Facebook gun for sale pages, Etc
What I'm seeing is, a generation of gun owners who cherish very little in the classic well made guns of yester year. The A-5 Browning, The 1897, model 12, model 37 pump guns. This generation thrives in either $200-$400 guns or in black plastic(camo sometimes) flat finished guns. Also, they only deal in cash with the cheap guns. If it's $500 on up. They nearly always only buy where they can use plastic. Trying to move a gun of a $1,000 or more in a private sale, is almost impossible. A generation that lives pay check to pay check, rarely has that kind of cash to play with.
I have a safe full of these classic well made guns of yester year and they are near worthless unless your willing to trade for something else. AR-15's, tactical type firearms are flying off the shelf. I read numerous articles from the shot show. Every single one of them talked of the top guns at the show. Nearly 100% were tactical, black plastic handguns, AR's and short barreled shotguns. All for home defense or Armageddon. The biggest news of a gun with wood shocks, the Benelli O/U. I never thought in my day I would see such classic's loose their appeal.
I also have seen more families after a death of a grandfather, or sometimes a father, settling the estate, SELLING off grandpa's guns instead of handing them down. I know several friends who had to go to the auction to buy their grandfathers guns they wanted. This is happening IMO more because of the higher rate of divorce and remarriage. Grandma has only been in the picture 20 years or less and has not the ties to her husbands off spring that a grandma that had been their through 60 plus years of marriage. My wife's grandfathers guns went to the only boy in the family who had a broken marriage, remarried and the women didn't get along with the family. Her uncle up and died before he was 50. Boom, all of grandfathers guns are now in control of by a person who could care less about the history or sentimental value. Guns carried for 60-100 years or more by a family, handed down..all gone.
Just my ramblings of the morning. Things change in life and with time. For some of us, it's not easy to watch or except. But as the saying of this new generation says..IT IS WAS IT IS.
Have a great Sunday day of rest..
Onpoint:thumbsup:
What I'm seeing is, a generation of gun owners who cherish very little in the classic well made guns of yester year. The A-5 Browning, The 1897, model 12, model 37 pump guns. This generation thrives in either $200-$400 guns or in black plastic(camo sometimes) flat finished guns. Also, they only deal in cash with the cheap guns. If it's $500 on up. They nearly always only buy where they can use plastic. Trying to move a gun of a $1,000 or more in a private sale, is almost impossible. A generation that lives pay check to pay check, rarely has that kind of cash to play with.
I have a safe full of these classic well made guns of yester year and they are near worthless unless your willing to trade for something else. AR-15's, tactical type firearms are flying off the shelf. I read numerous articles from the shot show. Every single one of them talked of the top guns at the show. Nearly 100% were tactical, black plastic handguns, AR's and short barreled shotguns. All for home defense or Armageddon. The biggest news of a gun with wood shocks, the Benelli O/U. I never thought in my day I would see such classic's loose their appeal.
I also have seen more families after a death of a grandfather, or sometimes a father, settling the estate, SELLING off grandpa's guns instead of handing them down. I know several friends who had to go to the auction to buy their grandfathers guns they wanted. This is happening IMO more because of the higher rate of divorce and remarriage. Grandma has only been in the picture 20 years or less and has not the ties to her husbands off spring that a grandma that had been their through 60 plus years of marriage. My wife's grandfathers guns went to the only boy in the family who had a broken marriage, remarried and the women didn't get along with the family. Her uncle up and died before he was 50. Boom, all of grandfathers guns are now in control of by a person who could care less about the history or sentimental value. Guns carried for 60-100 years or more by a family, handed down..all gone.
Just my ramblings of the morning. Things change in life and with time. For some of us, it's not easy to watch or except. But as the saying of this new generation says..IT IS WAS IT IS.
Have a great Sunday day of rest..
Onpoint:thumbsup:
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