Ever Thin Out Firearms Collection?

[joed]

I've downsized once so far and thinking about it again. Sold some beautiful rifles and S&W revolvers last time.

When you look at it realistically you all probably have guns you ever use.

I can tell you I will never miss .45 Colt revolvers. The .44 just does everything better. Also sold a very nice 700 VS and model 70.

At present looking at selling a 700 classic in .300 H&H. Owned it for 12 years and never shoot it.

 

[CajunBass]

I did. A few months ago I looked into the safe and realized I had guns I had never thought about shooting. I came to the conclusion that I really didn't want them, I was just buying them to have "stuff." They had no real meaning to me.

So I sold off most of them. Hopefully they went to someone who will enjoy them more than I was. I started with about 50 or so, and sold them off until now I'm down to about a dozen, between mine and my wife's.

The ones I've still got I can at least think of a reason I wanted to have them in the first place.

 

[DammitBoy]

Thinning out a collection by selling them to dealers = losing money. Dealers need to make money so they won't off you top dollar or going rate on firearms.

Consignment is one option, you're losing some % but not as bad as an outright sale to a dealer.

The other option is to take your time and sell things individually face to face, or orchestrate trades with people. Trades are a lot tougher since you have to find someone that has something you want, AND has an interest in something you've got.

I decided to thin my herd by renting table space at several gun shows. It worked out great.

 

[JVaughn]

Mine aren't eating anything yet.

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

I've sold some in the past. Sell one, buy one kind of stuff. I did do a safe cleaning once, and do not regret it. I had some decent surplus rifles and pistols, but with no theme and varied calibers... So I sold off the ones I no longer wanted.

There is only 1, that I wish I had back. (Not in the safe cleaning) It was a 1918 Oberndorf Mauser with major components matching. It was in 100% correct German configuration but it did have the Crescent Moon on the receiver.... It was blued by the turks, and was otherwise like new...

If anyone in Ohio has one for sale, let me know.

 

[HammerheadSSN663]

Yeh, I had at least 9 different calibers.

I'm down to AR 223, Shotgun, 22 Lr. and a 9mm

Even thinking of unloading my ARs.

Thinking my Ruger tactical 22LR, a Mossberg 520A1. and a Sig P250 subcompact in 9mm might be enough for a SHTF situation.

You can only grab-n-go so much ammo and hardware folks.

 

[Warp]

I haven't really had enough guns to be able to do that...although I did go on a KelTec purging session where I sold all 3 of them once

 

[Ignition Override]

The MN 91/30 and both MN 44s were sold. The Mini 14 (1990) and 30 were sold. Didn't like the thick front post sights.

The Yugo Mauser will be sold, FTF only (west TN), if anybody offers near what the purchase price was.
Because of the original irons sights it has not been used in over 1 & 1/2years.

HammerheadSSN663: You might make a nice profit on the AR and could buy a large chunk of ammo after the price bubble either pops or deflates.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

 

[HammerheadSSN663]

Right. Saw a show on the Tullip trade back in the what,...1700s or something. Fortunes were made and then lost in a single day. Somebody woke up and said, "hey, they're just flower bulbs people."