Thanks, Vall, I hate sitting at gun show tables trying to sell stuff and trying to keep idiots from ruining the merchandise by doing stuff like opening sealed boxes to see what's inside. But, that might be a good way to go. Plus, I don't have the patience to listen to every old guy that comes over and tells me the story of his entire collection, thinking I'm interested because I have some of that kind of stuff for sale. Only problem with putting it all out at a show is I'd have absolutely no good way to price what I have; it's going to take some research to figure it all out and determine what's worth what. Otherwise, would be a shark feeding where all the vendors come over and buy my good stuff for 1/5 of what they put it out for, and leave me with the dogs that I overpriced. At least when I sell one item at a time I don't put it up for sale until I research it, and I learn as I go by selling stuff in a selective order. For now, all the cartridge stuff is sitting in about 30 ammo boxes in my shop; I made my way through all the miscellaneous gun parts last night, and started in on the huge lot of colt single action parts. After I get those figured out, the harder winchester lever parts come next. Only a few single shot parts in this lot, got a few 922 H&A, one favorite, a nice #2 rolling block, a rolling block sporter tang, a #6 remington, a couple period scopes, and the trapdoor and high wall barrels in the classifieds out of it. Haven't gone through the barrels yet, did pull out a couple new liners and there's a few that might be good. These all combined estate lots are an interesting challenge to sort through. Every rusted and broken gun part from a 60 or 70 year period mixed together with rare and hard to get parts and rotted pieces of paper, even discarded candy bar and sandwich wrappers. Barrel bands, cut off barrel ends, sights, safeties from military rifle conversions. About 50 double barrel, pistol, pump shotgun and old lever gun receivers stripped all or partly, some burned or rusty. All together in tubs. Will have to take the steel scrap bucket to the recycling this week.
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