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Honestly struff55 what make or model shotguns has any one made in the last 25 years that are worth investing in to make a few dollars
Ok on the brownings I have a set of NIB model 12 clones
Yes those I will get back more than I paid but what may be 300 bucks max on the set for stashing them for years and tying up a few grand
Hardly worth it is it
May be the NIB remington 3 1/2: wingmaster I may make 200 bucks and that has a grand tied up now for 14 years that is unless remington decides to release it again then I lose money
There may be a couple models worth saving from 50 years ago but again one has to be careful with the vintage stuff since once this generation dies off young guys don't want them and we are getting close to that point IMO with some
OTHER than Cory he thinks like an old fart however
Smart boy IMO
Cheers
Ok on the brownings I have a set of NIB model 12 clones
Yes those I will get back more than I paid but what may be 300 bucks max on the set for stashing them for years and tying up a few grand
Hardly worth it is it
May be the NIB remington 3 1/2: wingmaster I may make 200 bucks and that has a grand tied up now for 14 years that is unless remington decides to release it again then I lose money
There may be a couple models worth saving from 50 years ago but again one has to be careful with the vintage stuff since once this generation dies off young guys don't want them and we are getting close to that point IMO with some
OTHER than Cory he thinks like an old fart however
Smart boy IMO Cheers
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Honestly struff55 what make or model shotguns has any one made in the last 25 years that are worth investing in to make a few dollars
Ok on the brownings I have a set of NIB model 12 clones
Yes those I will get back more than I paid but what may be 300 bucks max on the set for stashing them for years and tying up a few grand
Hardly worth it is it
May be the NIB remington 3 1/2: wingmaster I may make 200 bucks and that has a grand tied up now for 14 years that is unless remington decides to release it again then I lose money
There may be a couple models worth saving from 50 years ago but again one has to be careful with the vintage stuff since once this generation dies off young guys don't want them and we are getting close to that point IMO with some
OTHER than Cory he thinks like an old fart however
Cheers
Investing that couple grand into an investment would give you better returns in 14 years. Curious, if you think that the next generation does not want the vintage stuff, why would it be worth more to people that don't want it? I love wood and old shotguns, don't get me wrong, but I would think old shotguns that can't handle steel load will be going down.
It is like the pre64 mod 70 winchester rifle. I grew up with my dad and every one we knew searching the country for them .today new gun buyers would not look twice at one on a table. I love them .but in s few more years not many will spend the cash for one ...Dutch
Some interesting points made here. "Collecting" means different things to different people. Just because Joe Schmuck doesn't spend 40 years looking for the exact pristine personal rifle that Hitler used doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't get a bang out of gathering up what he likes.
A hard fact is one we can deny all we want, but it remains - peoples' tastes evolve. The younger crowd at gun shows don't usually give a gorgeous old Model 12 a second look. I had an L.C. Smith Ideal grade, 1946, unfired at a couple of shows. Only the old guys looked at it and I finally sold it to an fellow that was probably 75.
I haven't bought any of my keepers for the purpose of "investment". Some of them have gained value big time. I lean heavily to old milsurps, and would like to pretend that I knew all along that the value would go up. That isn't the case, however!
It is painful to watch young people trading off their el cheapo plastic stuff for decent guns, but in order to get quality, it's going to cost money these days.
I enjoy my stuff. I love posting pics on here and a couple of other sites. I love showing the guns to interested people. I love to learn from others about their guns. I won't be holding my breath waiting for the auction sale after I croak to see how much more my guns are worth!
A hard fact is one we can deny all we want, but it remains - peoples' tastes evolve. The younger crowd at gun shows don't usually give a gorgeous old Model 12 a second look. I had an L.C. Smith Ideal grade, 1946, unfired at a couple of shows. Only the old guys looked at it and I finally sold it to an fellow that was probably 75.
I haven't bought any of my keepers for the purpose of "investment". Some of them have gained value big time. I lean heavily to old milsurps, and would like to pretend that I knew all along that the value would go up. That isn't the case, however!
It is painful to watch young people trading off their el cheapo plastic stuff for decent guns, but in order to get quality, it's going to cost money these days.
I enjoy my stuff. I love posting pics on here and a couple of other sites. I love showing the guns to interested people. I love to learn from others about their guns. I won't be holding my breath waiting for the auction sale after I croak to see how much more my guns are worth!
First off, don't buy firearms as an investment.
Buy them because you want to use them, appreciate them, &c. If you eventually increase your return on them, all well and good. If not, you still got to have/use them for a time.
Will it make you a better shot to shoot an H&H, Woodward, David McKay Brown or Grade VII Browning B25 / B325 / B525, rather than a Baikal o/u, if o/u's float your boat?
And if o/u's don't do it for you, will one of Jas. Purdey's, Thomas Boss', Philip Webley, Wm. M. Scott's finest offerings bring home more birds/bunnies/squirrels?
And if you have to justify their purchase to your significant other, try this:
"Think of my guns like your shoes. The only thing different is that I can use them for x years, then sell them and get part/all/more money than I purchased them for. Can you say that about your shoes that you don't wear any more?"
;-)
'Sides, the last I heard, Brink's doesn't follow the hearse when you're on your way to take the big dirt nap.
Buy them because you want to use them, appreciate them, &c. If you eventually increase your return on them, all well and good. If not, you still got to have/use them for a time.
Will it make you a better shot to shoot an H&H, Woodward, David McKay Brown or Grade VII Browning B25 / B325 / B525, rather than a Baikal o/u, if o/u's float your boat?
And if o/u's don't do it for you, will one of Jas. Purdey's, Thomas Boss', Philip Webley, Wm. M. Scott's finest offerings bring home more birds/bunnies/squirrels?
And if you have to justify their purchase to your significant other, try this:
"Think of my guns like your shoes. The only thing different is that I can use them for x years, then sell them and get part/all/more money than I purchased them for. Can you say that about your shoes that you don't wear any more?"
;-)
'Sides, the last I heard, Brink's doesn't follow the hearse when you're on your way to take the big dirt nap.
jamesharrison: Love your sig line. Telling the truth does sometimes bring accusations of being cynical. Where the line blurs sometimes is where a person is just being a miserable prick and has nothing good to say about anything or anybody.
Wish I had of known that 40 years ago but then again I did some investing also and remember after 911 when the markets took a nose dive never to return or at least in my case I lost like 30% over night which was way more money that I ever lost on firearms
For me firearms are a very poor investment period. I look at my muscle cars to compare. 68 impala ss427 paid 2500 bucks for it in 1973 now appraised at 44K, chevelle same way
That is where my money should have went
I am not following you on the vintage comment. What I mean is yes vintage stuff is collectable including some firearm models but there is a point where you have to sell it to get the max return, hold on too long and the people interested in it die off and most times the next generation wants nothing to do with it.
Model 12 winchesters are a prime example. Look at how the value of those keep dropping now year after year and who buys them not 21 year olds any more. I see this all the time with stuff we collect the hard part is determining when that time to sell is
Cheers
Exactly Dutch what I am trying to say. The demand for the pre 64 model 70 is dropping every year as those who appreciate them age and the youth want nothing to do with them for the most part
I think of my model A parts. I had a barn full and would not sell for many years. When I finally decided to let some go yes the coupe stuff went but for peanuts and most the rest of the collection went to the scrap yard. No body wanted it
I held on too long
Cheers
Sure is my friend but we live in a disposable world today and not for the better IMO as I go out to start my 32 year old Honda snowblower and see the guy next door must have bought another new one. Pretty yellow this time
Must be six or eight now in the past 25 years he has bought new and laughed at me when I bought the HondaCheers
