Zeebrahed
Member
A moral problem
Recently, a close friend of my extended family suffered a sudden heart attack and died. He was my uncles best friend, and attended all of our functions and gatherings, and I always talked to him about shooting and collecting and so forth. He was a wealth of Mauser knowledge and reloading in particular.
His death was of course a sudden thing to his widow, whom I do not know. Well, today at his funeral my uncle told me that this gentleman had in excess of 300 rifles and another number of pistols, parts, barrels and reloading equipment of every form. He had well over 200 NIW Remington 700 barrels alone.
Obviously, his widow does not have much use of his collection (she only tactitly approved of his hobby, for 40 plus years) and I was thinking of how to approach the subject of purchasing his entire collection. This would save his widow the grief of trying to place all of this via an estate sale or other means, my uncle suggested several gunshow trips. Yeah, no dice. All of this stuff would fill my F-150 twice. Of course, I would compensate her well for the material but I am just not very good at these things. I am ashamed in a small way, thinking that my profiteering can be construed as ghoulish to some. I just want to know what you ladies and gentlemen think my best course of action is for this situation.
Recently, a close friend of my extended family suffered a sudden heart attack and died. He was my uncles best friend, and attended all of our functions and gatherings, and I always talked to him about shooting and collecting and so forth. He was a wealth of Mauser knowledge and reloading in particular.
His death was of course a sudden thing to his widow, whom I do not know. Well, today at his funeral my uncle told me that this gentleman had in excess of 300 rifles and another number of pistols, parts, barrels and reloading equipment of every form. He had well over 200 NIW Remington 700 barrels alone.
Obviously, his widow does not have much use of his collection (she only tactitly approved of his hobby, for 40 plus years) and I was thinking of how to approach the subject of purchasing his entire collection. This would save his widow the grief of trying to place all of this via an estate sale or other means, my uncle suggested several gunshow trips. Yeah, no dice. All of this stuff would fill my F-150 twice. Of course, I would compensate her well for the material but I am just not very good at these things. I am ashamed in a small way, thinking that my profiteering can be construed as ghoulish to some. I just want to know what you ladies and gentlemen think my best course of action is for this situation.