I'm Selling My Guns....

[ltxi]

.....and buying a few. My goal is to cut my collection of around 55 firearms to a dozen +/- quality shooters plus a few collectibles. Involves buying a couple as well as selling. Hope to get this down to as few as 20. May not make that but it's the goal.

[aKahrt_and_p2KT]

Hey if you can't find any buyers and need to make shelf room I would be happy to take a couple off your hands to help you out. Can't afford to buy any but I would be happy to help a fellow forum member out

[Bawanna]

I've had similar thoughts lately myself. It's darn tough. I got through and make a keep pile and a sell pile and a want list. About the only progress I make is the want list gets bigger and bigger but both the keep and the sell piles go back in the toy box and I get no where.

KIND of like picking which child is your favorite.

[Planedude]

I thought about doing this a while back. My old Bear safe was full and I was needing to thin the herd to make space.
So I took out all the guns in there and laid them out oun the bed. Each and every one was reveiwed, re-elauated and rated as keep or go. In the end, they all went back in the safe as I owned no guns that were not purchased with great thought and logic before purchase or given to me by folks or the estate's of freinds that made them too highly prized to exit the collection.
My plan now...???
GET A BIGGER SAFE!!
Try that and stay happy.

[mr surveyor]

On a bit "smaller scale", I've been doing that for the last 3-4 years. I've culled the herd down to about 50% in that time, and all new acquisitions involved trade (some 1+cash, some 2 for 1, and even 2+cash for one). I'm now down to nothing that I consider to be pure trade fodder. The M92 .44 cal rifle I bought last week is the first new purchase I've made with "new money" in over 3 years. Being the practical thinker type, I have no firearms now that don't serve a definate "practical" purpose, and I reload for all but the Kahr 9's and the shotguns (even though I could). I haven't had a true "wish list" for several years other than the CM9 last February for a "boot gun", although a snubby fits just as well.

I suppose that when you feel like you got your own bases covered with just enough good quality hardware, it's best to focus more attention to the software side of the equation..... and dressing up the current herd with the best grips and sights and ......

surv

[downtownv]

Well, I hope you give fellow members first crack..... regardless of how crazy the price.

[yqtszhj]

I have thought about doing the same thing. I'd like to get down to a few handguns and take the proceeds to buy some other things. The only thing is if I trade something the wife gets upset because she thinks i should keep everything (CW9 was the last thing I traded for a CM9.) It's a good position to be in but increases the expense when I want something new. Mainly because if I but me a new gun I have to buy her something of equal or greater value.

[FLBri]

I have thought about doing the same thing. I'd like to get down to a few handguns and take the proceeds to buy some other things. The only thing is if I trade something the wife gets upset because she thinks i should keep everything (CW9 was the last thing I traded for a CM9.) It's a good position to be in but increases the expense when I want something new. Mainly because if I but me a new gun I have to buy her something of equal or greater value.

Wait!
your wife gets upset if you sell a gun to buy another ... because you didn't keep the one you traded. I'm very envious.

I'm trying to think of how I can use that for golf vacations and such .....

[MW surveyor]

Mainly because if I but me a new gun I have to buy her something of equal or greater value.

^^^^^^This is the main reason she's upset!

[muggsy]

I've whittled my collection down to 15 guns. At least three were spirited away by my #1 son. The rest were sold off. I'm now going for quality over quantity.

[Bawanna]

Well I see that series 70 Gold Cup still on the menu, if that's headed for the trash, probably unsellable, I know a fella that would give up a kidney for it.

Kind of a jerk but I do have good days, I mean he has good days.

[FLBri]

I know of a local (to me) pawn shop that has a Gold Cup. If any one is interested I can find out more about it.

[Bawanna]

Wonder if they take internal organs? I'd love to have one someday but not nearly enough marbles at the moment to even think about it.

If Barth (Please check in pal, people are asking about you?) would have just sent me the money instead of buying that new truck and all them new toys, everything would be alright, but NOOOOOOO, he's gotta bogart the loot all to hisself.

Crap, I sound like a demorat.

[Flincher]

I did the same thing a few years back. But that was before I bought my first Kahr. Now I want a few more Kahrs !! So the fun'll never end, except instead of 28 handguns, I will easily be able to keep the inventory down to a 1/2 dozen collectible safe queens, and a handfull of top quality shooters.

[RevRay]

.....and buying a few. My goal is to cut my collection of around 55 firearms to a dozen +/- quality shooters plus a few collectibles. Involves buying a couple as well as selling. Hope to get this down to as few as 20. May not make that but it's the goal.

So, was this just a passing thought ... or will a list of available guns be appropriately distributed sometime in the near future?

And if so, would a Glock 19 or 19C or 26 or 26C be among the mix?