You call "yours" a collection?

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details! details!

I wish they'd told more about the old and rare guns in that collection. I'll bet he got some real gems before he just went nuts and bought anything he saw. In particular, I wonder how many Colt
SAAs and Lugers he had.
 
cnorman18,
go to post #12 and click on the "proxibid" link. You can still peruse all 500 of the weapons sold off last weekend.
Highlights I saw were an 1886 Winchester $4000, some trapdoor Springfields $1400+/-, Pre 64 Win 70 .375 Win Mag, $3500... mostly old WWII milsurps, avg $150-200... things you could buy cheap(er) 20+ years ago.
 
We need to get a bronze bust of him. It should go to the "Collector of the Year." :p
 
J.M. Davis in Claremore, OK had over 20,000 guns when he died. Alot of it topshelf stuff. Tons of NFA stuff and Gatlings etc. he put them in a Trust and many are on exhibit in the museum there. I highly recommend it to any firearms afficianado. When I get the rare chance to pass by someone has to yank me away. I never met the guy but he is one of my heroes. FYI his crypt is in the museum kinda like being burried with his toys.

If having more guns than you can shoot makes you a nutcase hoarder then I Sir am well on my way and darn proud of my craziness.
 
there are 6 collections here in Tucson alone that literally smoke 3800 guns, Most are very high quality military collections.....

As far as taking care of that many guns its not hard, I've been doing it for half my life, the key is in cleaning the ones ya are shooting as soon as they are ready to go back into the vaults, if your gun room or vaults are properly setup there is no need to be cleaning the guns in the racks and oil is only needed if the environmemt in the vaults is not properly maintained, its much easier to control a walk in vault than it is to control a lil gun safe BTW

ALL of mine get used, not all at once obviously but I shoot everyday and on weekends we might have up to 30-40 guests and twice as many assorted guns outa the vaults.......
 
I'm kicking myself for missing this

Upcoming ammo auction
http://www.nyeauction.com/

Sept 15 and 16
Be sure to click the links for the catalog and pictures, it has the final bid prices.
http://www.nyeauction.com/auctions/2007/auction_091607.html

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Heres the auction from May 5

http://www.nyeauction.com/auctions/2007/auction_050507.html

Barret Model 82A1, 50Cal, SN 3957 sold for $6,750
 
Well, it can just disappear actually. If they were made illegal and the BATFE came and took them away. The only way around that would be to actually live up to the bluster and oppose them with real force, and even then, you would lose.

Gun collections as an investment are pretty good, but not invincible. A few strokes of President Obama's pen are all it would take to make them worth $0, and you a criminal.
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Not true! In that event every gun will become "priceless". Of course, provided it works.
 
The biggest problem I see with haveing that many is Cleaning them. Man you have have to work all day every day just to keep them from rusting. No thanks. I for one hate cleaning guns anymore. That is why I am on a quest to find the cleanest burning powders out there.
 
Guns may not have been the only hobby he indulged in. Pahrump is in the same county where prostitution is legal. :)
 
Anyone notice he also had a collection of 300 SLEDGEHAMMERS!! Is that in case you run out of the 250k rounds of ammo?
 
I think this guy had some mental issues. He was loony, and not loony in the sense he was "dangerous" but loony in the same sense some OCD guy buys 300 pairs of shoes or an old women has 86 cats in her house when they find her dead. There are people with mental illness that gives them a compulsion to collect.

Yes you can say "its a free country", or the guy can/should pursue his hobby, but I'm just saying if I ever get to the point I'm buying random guns just to buy them and store them away (quanity minded) then I'll have to re-evaluate my life plans.

You can't take it with you when you die, and I think as this guy got older he began to buy more and more guns in a panic, realizing this fact that everyone learns sooner or later.


I am by no means a Bible thumper, but this passage came to mind:

Matthew 6:19-20
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
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3800 guns? Strictly small potatoes. Ever heard of the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma? 20,000 plus arms. All belonged to one man who, in 1965, put them in a perpetual trust in the hands of the State of Oklahoma to preserve them for all to see, forever, at no charge.

Woody

Be careful who you choose to stand behind and support. If you are unwilling to take care of yourself, you must take whatever care that comes along. I've yet to see a flock of sheep, no matter how well cared for and tended, that doesn't get fleeced from time to time and eventually end up on the dinner table. Not many sheep die a natural death. B.E. Wood
 
My apologies, 2RCO. That's what I get for not reading the entire thread!

It surely is a great collection. I plan to make it up there again soon.

Woody
 
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