marlinguy
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Re: Collecting Rifles?
Reply #24 - Dec 30th, 2018 at 2:13pm
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In some cases the younger generation might be more open to "crossing lines" than many of us older guys are. I talk to a lot of younger guys and gals at our local collector shows and they are often surprisingly interested in the guns I put out for display each month. They ask good questions, and seem genuinely interested in how the guns are fired, and whether they can still be safely fired. I think a lot of the younger gun owners are more interested in enjoying firearms by shooting them, so they might be more likely to buy old single shot rifles if they know they can shoot them, and collect them. My son in law is career Navy, and with over 20 years in the Navy he's spent a lot of time in some pretty bad places. Never been stationed on a ship, as he is a combat classification. He's been on over a dozen missions into Afghanistan, about 10 missions into Iraq, a few into Kuwait, Libya, and some other nasty places too. He owns some black rifles, and some semiauto handguns, but has a big interest in single shot rifles and old lever guns. I gave him a Rolling Block for his birthday last year, and he's looking hard to purchase some lever action repeaters, and singles too. Fortunately my daughter is also a gun person, and she is 100% behind him investing money into a collection of old single shots. He owns the black guns because he's familiar with them, and likes them. But he's confused with the older guns, and although very interested, he's been cautious about what to buy because of all the variants, and not knowing what is original, or a fair price to pay. I think he's like many younger folks. They feel comfortable buying brand new guns that they don't have to worry about, but would like to own old guns if they can get through the learning curve and figure out what's what.
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