Do you save empty gun boxes?

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Wife found my stash of about 40 gun boxes in the attic....proceeded to give me the talk about saving junk that has no redeeming value. (Everything is there, sales reciepts, owners manuals, plastic sleeves, and impregnated oil wrapping paper.) If she only knew how much it adds to the value of the collection....

....anyone else save the boxes?
 
Receipts and instructions are kept, everything else gets tossed in the trash.

Collector value be damned. I buy 'em to shoot.

Ed

Edit: I don't care about receiving the packing materials when I buy a used gun so that is probably why I'm not to excited about keeping it. Also, I'm sure I'd have a different opinion if I had a place to store it. Space is at a premium in my apartment.
 
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I'm with my friend Mal H on this one, as I always save my
firearms boxes. Reason? Not likely, but if I ever did decide to sell or make
a trade, I just figure the receiving other party would want the box and
doc's. I know that we allow a few dollars more for persons making a
trade that has everything in its entirety~!:D
 
I save them--not because of the collector's value but because occasionally I decide to sell one and it is nice to be able to provide everything to the new owner that originally came with the gun. I know that I like to get that stuff when I buy a used gun.

If it's something that I'm SURE I'm keeping (never, EVER gonna sell it), I'm less careful about keeping packing materials.
 
You guys collect guns?

Myself I collect long skinny cardboard boxes from AIM/SOG/Century/etc. Those jerks though must consider me a sucker. I get this feeling that they are cleaning out the junk in their warehouse when they send me these boxes. Quite a few times recently I've gotten a bunch of greasy firewood & metal tomato stakes to go along with those boxes when they arrive.

I wouldn't mind it so much (my trash guys will pick up most anything) but the shipping on those boxes is getting a bit silly. I do wish that they would stop taking advantage of my good nature.....
 
I had that happen to me
i ordered a crate from those guys at AIM and it was full of rubber bags
One can only imagine what could be so foul that they'd seal it in a rubber bag
Needless to say those went straight into the garbage
And now my crate is mounted proudly on my wall with my boxes and containers
 
Guess I got a real bad concept of about keeping gun boxes from a guy that used to work at the local gun shop. Somebody would ask about trading a gun. The first thing he asks is "you got the box??"

"WHAT...YOU DIDN'T KEEP THE BOX??" (Loud voice) "Wow, that's gonna lower the value!" Didn't ask condition, caliber, serial number. Total fixation on the stupid box.

Some guns have decent boxes, but anymore a lot are just plain brown generic boxes.

Collector value be damned. I buy 'em to shoot.
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My thoughts. If I want to collect something totally useless, I'll start collecting stamps or coins. There's enough crap to keep without storing empty boxes. My heirs can whine because there's no box for the guns. I'm gonna shoot. YMMV
 
I keep the hard plastic boxes. If cardboard, I try to hang onto at leasst one cardboard box of the proper size so I can send the gun in for service if it ever becomes necessary.
 
If I was worried about collector value to the point of haveing to have the box, I`d leave the gun in it and then have the claim "it`s never been fired" to go with it.
Paper work and hard cases I keep, the rest goes............Of course I buy to shoot, not to sell at a later date or collect.
 
I save mine in my attic also. How many of you ever thought that you may need THAT box to ship a gun back to the factory or to a gunsmith? Manuals and receipts are stored in my document safe with my duplicate legal papers etc.
 
I try to keep mine. Always did even before the recent buying and selling of boxes by collectors. The long gun boxes do tend to get trashed after a while especially if you move. I lost the boxes on some of my original firearms in a move. It would have seemed a bit odd to make a claim to the moving company over empty boxes at the time. All handgun boxes get saved in the moving type book cartons. They stack nicely and are easy to handle. Finding a certain box can be tough sometimes though.

I keep records as to whether or not the firearm had the original box and paperwork when I purchased it. Years ago, the paperwork went into a "firearm file"; now I tend to leave that stuff in the box as it is much easier to associate the paper work with the original gun later.
 
I have MOST of my boxes...although I have NO idea where the box for my Marlin .30/30 is hiding...but is must be keeping the Maverick shotgun box company :evil: :D
 
Yep, saving mine and my WIFE moved the old ones from the closet to the attic! :D
 
I save all of it , boxes , tags , wrappers . You'd be surprised at the looks I get when I sell a gun with all its original trappings to someone , most people really appreciate gettng all the stuff . Heck I even got the original store displaycase tag for a 22 rifle I bought in Germany in 1982 .
 
If anyone has a box for an original Winchester 52B Sporter (late 1940's).....email me, your lottery ticket has just been drawn.
 
Most of my small "collection" are to shoot, a couple have not been shot and will not be shot (by me). I never buy a gun with the intention of selling it, but I'm old enough to know I won't live forever. Plus, despite intentions, sometimes life intervenes. The original boxes and papers add value, and/or can make the difference between a sale and a walk-away. I keep them (much to my wife's dismay).
 
both the shotguns i have were used so i got no box with them, but i do save the box on all my elctronic stuff and almost anything else i buy that will later have some value, when i do go to buy new guns i will keep the boxes
 
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