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gewehrfreund Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 437 Location: Cortland Joined: Jan 24^th, 2005	Re: collecting future Reply #30 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 2:59pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Oct 31^st, 2018 at 10:41am: Collecting the things you love makes you live longer. It's healthy to collect single shot rifles. Collecting makes you smarter and your friends and enemies will admire you for collecting. Your status in society is elevated when you're a collector. There is no limit to the amount of single shot rifles a collector can own. It's also important to remember there is no limit to the amount of X wives you can have. So keep soldiering on collectors. Soldier on. Joe. Inspiring words to live by in these troubling times. But isn't the number of single shots one can have directly inversely proportional to the number of ex-spousal units?


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #31 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 3:02pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Oct 31^st, 2018 at 10:41am: Collecting the things you love makes you live longer. It's healthy to collect single shot rifles. Collecting makes you smarter and your friends and enemies will admire you for collecting. Your status in society is elevated when you're a collector. There is no limit to the amount of single shot rifles a collector can own. It's also important to remember there is no limit to the amount of X wives you can have. So keep soldiering on collectors. Soldier on. Joe. Joe, If you keep on collecting more X-wives, will you still have the money to also keep on collecting more single shot rifles?

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7324 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: collecting future Reply #32 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 5:05pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Oct 31^st, 2018 at 3:44pm: Always marry educated women if you must marry. You guys are twisting my mellon, man....... Joe. I prefer the ones that aren't educated enough to find a lawyer Frank

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Ballard6 Full Member Offline Posts: 177 Location: CORINTH Joined: Apr 5^th, 2008	Re: collecting future Reply #33 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 6:34pm	Print Post
	Gentlemen I appreciate all the replies. Have printed them and will review tonight. I suspect most of you see the same future for single shots as I do. What a shame!!!


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Ballard6 Full Member Offline Posts: 177 Location: CORINTH Joined: Apr 5^th, 2008	Re: collecting future Reply #34 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 7:43pm	Print Post
	Just finished reading the replies and I appreciate everyone's input. I bought my singe shots not as an investment but, for the enjoyment and to admire the craftmanship that went into making them. They didn't have the tooling we have today, but did great work. I just wonder if my heirs will appreciate them and if they don't will they realize any monetary benefit Many thanks for all opinions. Ballard6


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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: collecting future Reply #35 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 11:44pm	Print Post
	That's what I hope for, the guns I enjoyed being appreciated by the kids. I know my son called dibs on my pre-27 Smith and my daughter wants the mint 4" Highway Patrolman. Whether they'll keep the rollers, ar's, 1911's, etc.? Who knows? I never considered firearms I acquired as investments. I bought what I liked, if I got tired of it, I moved it on. Sometimes I made money and that's ok. I wish I was the type of person who obsessed over money as much as I do women, cars, guns, etc. But... I'm not. My bank account would be fatter, but what fun would that be? I guess that my real concern regarding the flat market is not so much the selling aspect, but rather the portent that is inherent in that flat market. Like I said, enjoy the market for what it is, maybe you might find a nice sxs shotgun to play with?!


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40_Rod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Extremism in the persuit of accuracy is not a vice Posts: 4285 Location: Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 20^th, 2004	Re: collecting future Reply #36 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 11:11am	Print Post
	All collecting is cyclical it has ups and downs just like any other commodity. One of the downsides of the popularity of that Coors brought to Schuetzen was the super heating of the collector market. I think what you are going to see for a few years is as some of the big collectors die off and the collections go to auction is that prices is going to shrink. 40 Rod


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: collecting future Reply #37 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 11:20am	Print Post
	I do hope that interest in single shots holds on in the future. But I also don't care if my guns go up or down in value. I've enjoyed collecting and shooting them, so that's what's really important to me. If my family keeps them and enjoys them, or sells them so someone else enjoys them, doesn't matter. What they get out of them doesn't matter either. I wont lose sleep wondering what happens after I'm gone. But I do hope my records of what goes with what are helpful so the next person has everything that goes with the guns.

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Dellet Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1102 Joined: May 19^th, 2017	Re: collecting future Reply #38 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 1:36pm	Print Post
	Prices falling could actually be what saves the interest in collectible single shot rifles. The ones that shoot well, are too expensive for entry level people. The ones that can be afforded, don't shoot well enough to hold their interest. The people that shot these as a kid and buy them for nostalgia are fewer and fewer. What seems to drive collectible prices are people old/successful enough to have the money to buy whatever it was they wanted and could not afford as a kid. The best we can hope for now, is people trying to recapture time spent with grandpa learning to shoot. Or another movie like Quigley.


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #39 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 4:59pm	Print Post
	40_Rod wrote on Nov 1^st, 2018 at 11:11am: All collecting is cyclical it has ups and downs just like any other commodity. One of the downsides of the popularity of that Coors brought to Schuetzen was the super heating of the collector market. I think what you are going to see for a few years is as some of the big collectors die off and the collections go to auction is that prices is going to shrink. 40 Rod A return to old rifles stuffed in barrels at your local gunshops?

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CptCurl Full Member Offline Posts: 191 Location: Botetourt County, Virginia Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2017	Re: collecting future Reply #40 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 6:21pm	Print Post
	I haven't been trying to sell, but I must say I haven't noticed such a dip in prices on the buying side. The auctions seem to bring strong prices for good collectible firearms. If I am overlooking someone's bargains, please direct me toward what I am missing. Curl


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: collecting future Reply #41 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 7:57pm	Print Post
	CptCurl wrote on Nov 1^st, 2018 at 6:21pm: I haven't been trying to sell, but I must say I haven't noticed such a dip in prices on the buying side. The auctions seem to bring strong prices for good collectible firearms. If I am overlooking someone's bargains, please direct me toward what I am missing. Curl Bargains wont be found at auctions on any type of gun! At last not very often! Online auctions have way to many views and bidders for much to slip by cheaply. You need to get out to big gun shows to find bargains, and take cash with you. Regardless of pricing, most sellers are usually open to offers and at large shows they have a lot of competition, so ready to deal on asking price. I occasionally find a bargain at a small gun show too, but good gun shows are still the only place to find many bargains on good single shot rifles.

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: collecting future Reply #42 - Nov 1^st, 2018 at 11:29pm	Print Post
	[quote author=5C6C777F704E1E0 link=1540862682/46#46 date=1541105978 A return to old rifles stuffed in barrels at your local gunshops? [/quote] Watch the bottoms of those barrels for false muzzles

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: collecting future Reply #43 - Nov 2^nd, 2018 at 11:23am	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on Nov 1^st, 2018 at 11:29pm: [quote author=5C6C777F704E1E0 link=1540862682/46#46 date=1541105978 A return to old rifles stuffed in barrels at your local gunshops? Watch the bottoms of those barrels for false muzzles [/quote] One of the neatest guns in my collection came out of an old whiskey barrel in a gun shop nearby. A friend called me and told me about it, and I went to the shop the next day. He never mentioned a whiskey barrel, so I looked all through the racks, and cases, and thought he was mistaken, or it sold. Turned to leave and walked past a barrel with buttstocks sticking up from it. There was a small Farrow Swiss buttplate sticking up, and I slowly pulled it out to see the gun he described!

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3913 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: collecting future Reply #44 - Nov 2^nd, 2018 at 12:57pm	Print Post
	Another barrel story. I was in London back in the 70s and I found a small gunshop just north of Harrods. Looked more like a work shop than what we would think of as a gunshop. I enquired (that's what you do over there, you don't ask, you enquire) if he had any singleshots. He said no and about that time I spied one in a barrel behind him. I said what about that one. He said would you be interested in that (like why)? It was an early Westley Richards Deely and Edge with a 400/360 barrel on it. For $100 and $25 shipping it was on its way to the States. Wouldn't mind still having that one.


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