What do you do if you see a grail Gun?

[WestKentucky]

I have had a few grail guns in my hands, and they generally end up back on the rack. I just slow myself down to check everything out carefully, and always with a keen interest of “why is it here” and I often figure out something odd about the gun that makes me either not want THAT gun or not want one of them at all. I recall the first time I ever picked up a 50AE desert eagle, and had the money in my pocket. The gun was beautiful, huge, heavy, didn’t feel well in my hands, and the action felt kinda strange. I put it down and the guy behind me bought a box of ammo for it and went to the range with it, and it sat in the case for 3 more months before disappearing. Rather than get excited and throw cash at the gun, I methodically convince myself that I either do or don’t need it, and I usually don’t.

 

[WestKentucky]

As someone who has shot quite a few full autos, I agree. F/A are very fun but once you had shot one a lot, you'd question why you wasted $24k on a gun? Ever since ammo prices went insane, even for primers, I have no more desire to shoot F/A. Just go to a place that rents them, go nuts for a day and you'll likely feel the same. A friend is an FFL07/SOT02 and has has about forty of them and he's let me shoot many of them. Really cool but to own? Nah! Only if I was so wealthy I didn't know what to do with all that money.

Yep. Thompson is my F/A grail and I know where some are to rent, but it hasn’t happened yet. It needs to. It’s my dad’s grail too and I plan to take him when I go, but we haven’t made it yet. There is no way that we would bring one home, but a smile on our faces would only wear off after a couple days.

 

[Mark_Mark]

As someone who has shot quite a few full autos, I agree. F/A are very fun but once you had shot one a lot, you'd question why you wasted $24k on a gun? Ever since ammo prices went insane, even for primers, I have no more desire to shoot F/A. Just go to a place that rents them, go nuts for a day and you'll likely feel the same. A friend is an FFL07/SOT02 and has has about forty of them and he's let me shoot many of them. Really cool but to own? Nah! Only if I was so wealthy I didn't know what to do with all that money.

like if I had 100 Million and was bored!

 

[Mark_Mark]

Yep. Thompson is my F/A grail and I know where some are to rent, but it hasn’t happened yet. It needs to. It’s my dad’s grail too and I plan to take him when I go, but we haven’t made it yet. There is no way that we would bring one home, but a smile on our faces would only wear off after a couple days.

I rented a MP5 and LOVED IT! about 25 years ago, shop owner was like, it’s for sale. $14,000! I bought a Motorcycle instead! lol

 

[Legionnaire]

To my mind a grail gun is one I know a lot about and have been searching for. I'll have a good sense of its value and how that varies by condition. A true grail gun is one I've committed to purchase when I find one, and I'll have already worked out how much I'm willing to pay and how I'm going to pay for it. If one buys a gun on impulse, it wasn't a grail gun. So, if I had a grail gun I was searching for (I don't) and I found one in satisfactory condition that met my price point, I'd buy it without a second thought.

The class of guns I find more difficult for my wallet are the "good deal" guns that I just can't pass up--targets of opportunity rather than true grail guns. Like the Ruger No.1 RSI in 7x57 Mauser that I had for a short time. I bought it because I thought it was cool and it was at a very good price. Sure enough, I parted with it once the coolness factor wore off and I was able to make a few bucks on it. I don't think of grail guns as being "easy come, easy go."

 

[Howland937]

To my mind a grail gun is one I know a lot about and have been searching for. I'll have a good sense of its value and how that varies by condition. A true grail gun is one I've committed to purchase when I find one, and I'll have already worked out how much I'm willing to pay and how I'm going to pay for it. If one buys a gun on impulse, it wasn't a grail gun. So, if I had a grail gun I was searching for (I don't) and I found one in satisfactory condition that met my price point, I'd buy it without a second thought.

The class of guns I find more difficult for my wallet are the "good deal" guns that I just can't pass up--targets of opportunity rather than true grail guns. Like the Ruger No.1 RSI in 7x57 Mauser that I had for a short time. I bought it because I thought it was cool and it was at a very good price. Sure enough, I parted with it once the coolness factor wore off and I was able to make a few bucks on it. I don't think of grail guns as being "easy come, easy go."

Ditto, 100%

 

[v8stang289]

As others have said, if it's a grail gun, unless its astronomically priced, it's coming home with me.

 

[jonnyc]

Duh...it's a Grail Gun! Make sure you have your plastic on you, buy the gun, and BS the wife in any way to stay alive and enjoy your treasure!

 

[jar]

Look down upon it and shout “No chance, English bedwetting types! I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing, you tiny-brained wipers of other people’s bottoms!”

 

[gnappi]

Pfft... trick question. I buy it and eat PB&J for 6 months

I found that all too often I lost a jewel by researching and another came along and bought it. Nevermore!

 

[lightman]

If its truly a grail gun I'm going to know its value and if its priced fairly and in good condition I'm going to buy it!

 

[horsemen61]

I did the right thing I put it on layaway men I couldn’t let this one get away

 

[375supermag]

Usually end up buying it out right or putting it on layaway depending on where my disposable income balance happens to be at the moment.

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

First thing I do is ask if lay A way is available. If so, then plunk down 200 instantly, to lock it down. Then go home and see what trade / sellable fodder I have accumulated and go sell a few things online. This clears out junk and I get a new forever piece of much more importance.

 

[hemiram]

My biggest regret as far as passing on a gun was when the last cheap(ISH) H&K P7's were going for like $700. I regret passing on them back then, and I don't want one enough anymore to pay the crazy prices they want for one now.

 

[Mosin77]

I don’t have too many grail guns any more but if the price is at all reasonable I’d buy it then and there if I could possibly swing it.