So am a bit torn on what to do. Am off work for at least 3 months after ankle surgery, so am trying to organize the gun room, and make some hard decisions.
As many of you know, my Dad's good friend died quite awhile back, and he(my Dad) and I helped his widow to sell off a good part of his gear. Am still selling some off, will be for quite awhile I imagine. What I found most troubling was that none of their 3 kids, all well older than I am, helped do anything with the house, or the stuff in it. I just couldn't imagine leaving all that work to someone outside my family.
My Dad has been helping the widow ever since his friend died, and this year at 85 she was ready to sell the house. So my Dad worked tirelessly to help her get the place straightened up, and the garage emptied out.
Now my Dad, as with most males, has a habit of collecting what we call "good stuff". Thing is my Dad had a lot of "good stuff" already. He's turning 79 tomorrow and if, by chance, he should die tomorrow(So help me, God) I'd be ####ed. I'm one of 4 siblings, 2 of whom live in Australia, while my other sibling lives in Ohio.
He has a 24x32 garage(with a full upstairs), so full atm, he can hardly get around without bumping into stuff. He also has a good sized shed in the back yard(also with a large attic full of wood timbers), with a lean-to, and a large portable garage all full of "good stuff".
I'm sure many of you can appreciate the mentality, I have inherited the same gene, just trying to get a handle on it so that someday I don't leave my family in the lurch.
So finally to my point, the widow's daughter was in town about a month and a half ago, and happened to call me while I was driving back from work.
I was half worried what she was going to say about how well, or otherwise, we did selling stuff off. We did get rid of a lot, practically gave away a good part of it at the Orangeville gun show, but I was told either you price stuff to sell or you'll be stuck with it going show to show for a long time.
I waited a couple of hours to call her back, and when I did, it just so happened that she had a firearms officer at her Mom's place, and was trying to decide what to do with all the ammunition that her Dad left behind. I was a bit puzzled at first, because I had believed we sold most of it at the gun show. She told me she was about to give everything to the police.
Stunned, I told her NO! Please don't do that. Told her my Dad would come pick everything up so we could sell it for her Mom.
Well, later that week, my Dad called me up and he and the daughter loaded everything up into my Dad's truck, and he brought it down that Friday.
The daughter called that day to tell me that whatever ammo she sent with my Dad, she wanted me to keep, in appreciation for the work I had done for her Mom.
I thanked her, and that was that.
Little did I realize just how much ammo and reloading components my Dad brought.
Here is a pic of the projectiles:
7mm Mauser. About half of it.
After lots of sorting, organizing and then finally some counting, I was left with 7500 rounds of 45 acp, 5200 rounds of 32 S&W Long, and close to 3000 38 Special.
All reloads, each small ammo box with the all of the load details carefully inscripted. I should mention here, that I would implicitly trust each and every round he loaded, he was a competitive, champion shooter throughout North America, and was the most meticulous person I've ever met.
I was left with about 6 calibers of ammo(.270, 7mm, 8mm, 9mm, .38, 30-30, .22 Centre fire) for which I don't have a rifle with which to shoot it.
This pic shows the 7mm projectiles on the left vs the 8mm projectiles on the right.
Now, my dilemma is do I sell off what I can't shoot? Or hang on to it till I get a gun in each calibre?
My family, unfortunately, is in the same boat as a lot of families - mainly a 1 income family, and the last few years have been difficult, and from what I read tonight, things are going to keep getting tougher with this idiotic government and their plan to make me spend more and more money on just keeping the lights on in my house.
My best friend, also a gun nut, keeps telling me not to sell anything, but I know that unless my wife lands a cherry job, I doubt I'll be acquiring any new guns anytime soon.
How do I choose what to sell, the pile of 7mm on the left is a bit bigger than the 8mm on the right, I have about as many or more in .270, a calibre I wish I owned, and likely will get someday, but damn it's a tough one.
Man, am getting sore from just sitting here typing this out, sorry for how long this turned out, can't sleep at night lately due to the ankle pain. Perhaps it's the drugs talking here too.
Try to put yourself in my situation, keeping in mind my gun room isn't as big as I wish it was as well.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron
As many of you know, my Dad's good friend died quite awhile back, and he(my Dad) and I helped his widow to sell off a good part of his gear. Am still selling some off, will be for quite awhile I imagine. What I found most troubling was that none of their 3 kids, all well older than I am, helped do anything with the house, or the stuff in it. I just couldn't imagine leaving all that work to someone outside my family.
My Dad has been helping the widow ever since his friend died, and this year at 85 she was ready to sell the house. So my Dad worked tirelessly to help her get the place straightened up, and the garage emptied out.
Now my Dad, as with most males, has a habit of collecting what we call "good stuff". Thing is my Dad had a lot of "good stuff" already. He's turning 79 tomorrow and if, by chance, he should die tomorrow(So help me, God) I'd be ####ed. I'm one of 4 siblings, 2 of whom live in Australia, while my other sibling lives in Ohio.
He has a 24x32 garage(with a full upstairs), so full atm, he can hardly get around without bumping into stuff. He also has a good sized shed in the back yard(also with a large attic full of wood timbers), with a lean-to, and a large portable garage all full of "good stuff".
I'm sure many of you can appreciate the mentality, I have inherited the same gene, just trying to get a handle on it so that someday I don't leave my family in the lurch.
So finally to my point, the widow's daughter was in town about a month and a half ago, and happened to call me while I was driving back from work.
I was half worried what she was going to say about how well, or otherwise, we did selling stuff off. We did get rid of a lot, practically gave away a good part of it at the Orangeville gun show, but I was told either you price stuff to sell or you'll be stuck with it going show to show for a long time.
I waited a couple of hours to call her back, and when I did, it just so happened that she had a firearms officer at her Mom's place, and was trying to decide what to do with all the ammunition that her Dad left behind. I was a bit puzzled at first, because I had believed we sold most of it at the gun show. She told me she was about to give everything to the police.
Stunned, I told her NO! Please don't do that. Told her my Dad would come pick everything up so we could sell it for her Mom.
Well, later that week, my Dad called me up and he and the daughter loaded everything up into my Dad's truck, and he brought it down that Friday.
The daughter called that day to tell me that whatever ammo she sent with my Dad, she wanted me to keep, in appreciation for the work I had done for her Mom.
I thanked her, and that was that.
Little did I realize just how much ammo and reloading components my Dad brought.
Here is a pic of the projectiles:
7mm Mauser. About half of it.
After lots of sorting, organizing and then finally some counting, I was left with 7500 rounds of 45 acp, 5200 rounds of 32 S&W Long, and close to 3000 38 Special.
All reloads, each small ammo box with the all of the load details carefully inscripted. I should mention here, that I would implicitly trust each and every round he loaded, he was a competitive, champion shooter throughout North America, and was the most meticulous person I've ever met.
I was left with about 6 calibers of ammo(.270, 7mm, 8mm, 9mm, .38, 30-30, .22 Centre fire) for which I don't have a rifle with which to shoot it.
This pic shows the 7mm projectiles on the left vs the 8mm projectiles on the right.
Now, my dilemma is do I sell off what I can't shoot? Or hang on to it till I get a gun in each calibre?
My family, unfortunately, is in the same boat as a lot of families - mainly a 1 income family, and the last few years have been difficult, and from what I read tonight, things are going to keep getting tougher with this idiotic government and their plan to make me spend more and more money on just keeping the lights on in my house.
My best friend, also a gun nut, keeps telling me not to sell anything, but I know that unless my wife lands a cherry job, I doubt I'll be acquiring any new guns anytime soon.
How do I choose what to sell, the pile of 7mm on the left is a bit bigger than the 8mm on the right, I have about as many or more in .270, a calibre I wish I owned, and likely will get someday, but damn it's a tough one.
Man, am getting sore from just sitting here typing this out, sorry for how long this turned out, can't sleep at night lately due to the ankle pain. Perhaps it's the drugs talking here too.
Try to put yourself in my situation, keeping in mind my gun room isn't as big as I wish it was as well.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron
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