Which one will never be sold.

[powdergun]

Like a lot of the guys on this forum I like to trade, buy, and sell rifles more often than you change your underwear on a hunting trip or even at other times

However, there is always one or two in the safe that will never be sold. For me it is an over and under, and a weatherby mark V given to me by my father. Both guns for the most part have no use to me but have a great sentimental value.

What rifles will never leave your collections ?

 

[pc9]

My Tactical Marine Mag with a 14 inch barel
Told my wife that gun is to be buried with me when i die.

 

[jaywill]

a pair of 22's . one browning pump that i got when i was in grade school , and a golden boy my wife bought me (shed #### if i sold it)

 

[agilent_one]

An H&R "Pardner" .410 that was given to me by my parents for my 12th birthday.

 

[southwest maddog]

A Marlin model 39a Golden Mountie .22 lever action rifle. Great historic gun, light to carry and nice size to slide into a scabbard. I am looking forward to teaching my grandkids to shoot it.

 

[GRiNGo]

A Interarms Mark X in 270 I got from my dad and a 30-30 marlin that I got for my 12th birthday and my first 22 and my ruger 10/22, but thats all.

 

[Scott Bear]

CZ 452 2E ZKM (heavy barrel) with a leupold scope (not sure what kind). Cheap to shoot, easy to clean and nearly makes 1" groups out to 100 yards. Bought it used for cheap and the scope wasn't even set up properly (bolt hit it when opening and eye relief way off) so I think it was never shot. Came with the standard 5 round mag and 2-10 round mags and scope covers. Great for gophers and anything else.

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

I definetely wouldn't sell off either the Browning Semi .22 or the 6.5x55 Swede I inherited. However, my sister seems to have stolen the 6.5x55 from me. The Sako 30-06 I bought off here...I think I'd need to be in a pretty dire need to sell it. Everything I own is replaceable.

Sako 30-06

6.5x55 Swede

 

[Noel]

The heirlooms will never leave. The replacement heirlooms will never go either unless I find a more accurate replacement first.

These two are the real McCoy for genuine heirlooms.
Steven's Favorite my Great great Uncle brought from Wisconsin in 1907. It has the "Tool & Co." roll mark so I suspect it is a fairly early one. He sent his son out with it for rabbits ducks and grouse and the occasional coyote.
Great Uncle Reuben:

Great great Uncle Albert crouched down behind, rifle in foreground after a busy day.

The gun still shoots, took a crow with it at 60yds, I was impressed.

When Great uncle Reuben got his own homestead at age 17 he bought a Remington 12C from the local trapper for $12 IIRC.
Hard to tell but it is in his scabbard here in the early 30's.

He shot the rifling right out of it but it is still in nice shape considering.

Reuben is now 98 years young. Took him for lunch today and then to the museum. We both had a great time.
There are a few others here but I won't hoard the thread.

 

[Wookie316]

As of now any of my Fathers and Grandfathers rifles will stay with me! They're not worth anything to anyone but me anyways! Everything else I have would go for the right price! But then I am partial to my 338 Gaillard!

I will say this though, one rifle I'd be willing to shell out for is a Sako AV 7mm Hunter Laminate or Fiberclass. After I sold the 243 Ruger youth model my father gave me for passing hunter safety, I was going to use the money to buy a Sako in one of the above listed models. I actually had the laminate in my hands at one time but was short the extra cash I needed to top off the sale as what I got from the Ruger wasn't enough. I told my Dad about the rifle I wanted to buy and the first thing he said was "What the hell do you want that thing for? It doesn't have a clip!" He was a Browning guy then, but I have since converted him to Sako! That was way back in 1995 I believe! I ended up blowing the Ruger money on beer and continued hunting with Dad's 270 Browning until 2001 when I bought my first rifle. A Sako 75 STW! Man I liked that rifle, like an idiot I sold it though, why I have not figured it out yet :-( Even after getting the STW I still have always had a chubby to find a 7mm AV Laminate/Fiberclass. The closest I came to getting one since was in 2003 when I found a 270 Sako AV Laminate at a gun shop in the city. The guy told me it had come in on trade and been there a month and he was shocked no one had bought it yet. It was the first shop I checked out in the city, and told the guy I was going to check a couple more shops and try my luck there. After visiting the other shops with no success I decided to go back and pickup that 270. Believe it or not a guy came in right after me and bought the damn thing! Man was I depressed :-( I really wish I had it now as I have recently acquired a 7mm AV wood classic that I could have just switched the stock on as they are the same length of action :-( It really is a nothing special gun, I just want to get one because it is originally what I wanted! If anyone out there needs to part with one PM me and I'll rob a bank (LOL)!!!!!

 

[firemachine69]

My Savage 93GL. Even though it's crazy-expensive to feed (considering the actual size of the caliber), it is my very first firearm. LOTS of sentimental value is attached to it, even if dealers are having trouble clearing them at under $230 (meaning they are quite abundant).

 

[Cavs42]

my grandfather's 12g cooey. Sure, I blew it up, but it's still an heirloom...

 

[stubblejumper]

Every gun that I own will be sold if the price is right.But the price is much higher on certain guns.

 

[sgt.rock]

My 1965 .444 marlin with the 24" barrel and monte carlo stock. Bought it recently off the EE and am sure glad I did. Already nailed 1 caribou and a moose with it. The moose dropped like a tonne of bricks and the caribou nearly flipped over. (didn't hurt that they were both hit within 40 yards.)
I suspect that my other most recent EE purchase will also be buried with me. A model 70 Winchester classic with CRF in .30-06 from the late 90's. Fits me like a glove, but I haven't sullied its reputation with blood yet. The spring bear hunt is gonna make this rifle feel like part of the group (gun locker group that is)
Absolutely everything else is expendable. I have gone through about 14 rifles in the last 24 months. I love trying new guns and calibers. You can't make a definate decision as to what your favorite gun/caliber combination is until you've damn near tried them all now can you??

 

[steyr36]

A Marlin model 39a Golden Mountie .22 lever action rifle. Great historic gun, light to carry and nice size to slide into a scabbard. I am looking forward to teaching my grandkids to shoot it.

x2 Mind you I"ll be teaching my future kids, as it's still my father's. Very awesome .22!!

 

[thekid856]

My 788 22-250 that belonged to my dad, my 1906 winchester that was the first gun I ever shot and my first 760 30-06.

 

[Rackmastr]

Hopefully the itch to sell my 7-08AI never catches up to me.......

I'd like to keep it for a long time and add another Ackley to the collection, but that itch always comes and goes to find something newer!!

 

[KDX]

"If" I had something that I owned for a number of years with no paper trail, that one would be a keeper. Notice I said "if".

 

[Noel]

 

[Boomer]

Well, never say never as a change in circumstances can always have unintended consequences, but having said that I would be reluctant to sell my custom Brno 602 .375 Ultra, Smith barrelled, McMillan stocked carbine, my almost stock .30/06 Brno ZG-47, or my .308 M-700 target rifle with add-ons from McMillan, Jewell, Dlask, Kreiger, Parker Hale, S&B, Badger and others: