I'm still into guns, but I've now sold three in three years

[Tallpine]

I have never sold a gun.

I expect my children/grandchildren to get them.

There will probably come a time when I start giving them away just to make the estate process simpler.

[makattak]

There will probably come a time when I start giving them away just to make the estate process simpler.

<perks ears>

You know Tallpine, I've always liked you. You really help make this place respectable.


... is he buying it?

[mtnbkr]

Plinking is a lot more fun when you can hit the target....

You can work on both at the same time.  Keeping the can moving is motivation for learning how to shoot, at least it was for me.  I never saw the utility in handing a kid a gun and running them through a regimented shooting session.  Best to let them have fun and let the desire to hit the noisy, moving target (tin can, not a cat or liberal) be the motivator.

When you don't have a beanfield, you find yourself at a pay-by-the-hour joint. Shooting gets much less fun. :(

I don't have a beanfield either.  I do my plinking at deer camp and less often at certain relatives' houses who have land out in the country.  Otherwise, I shoot steel plates at the local IWLA.  Not as much fun as a tin can, but better than paper.

Gophers

It's more fun if the target is already moving 

We have a dearth of shootable gophers here in the Mid Atlantic.

Chris

[Tallpine]

<perks ears>

You know Tallpine, I've always liked you. You really help make this place respectable.


... is he buying it?

Do you think that I slept with your mother 

 

[mtnbkr]

I have never sold a gun.

I expect my children/grandchildren to get them.

There will probably come a time when I start giving them away just to make the estate process simpler.

I considered that, but I decided it was better to set aside "special" guns for my kids rather than trying to maintain a large collection.  Even so, they're going to each have a decent collection if I never buy another one.  I have for each: 2 22lr revolvers, 2 32 revolvers (one vintage 32SWL and another vintage 32-20), 2 38s (K38 Masterpiece, and a nearly NIB 10-7), and 2 44mags (Redhawk and 629). I only have one rifle, so I'll need to add another one at some point.  I have plenty of shotguns for them as well.

Three things I try to do with my guns for their benefit: I don't buy trash and I try to get the gear to reload for each caliber and have some ammo set aside that won't be shot.  That way, along with each gun goes some ammo (especially nice for the two 32s) and the tools to load more.  Finally, I make sure I've used them so they're not just guns "dad bought", but guns "dad used and cherished".  That's another reason I let some go, I just don't care about them.  The ones I have now have meaning to me and I hope that translates to meaning for my kids.

Chris

[Pharmacology]

I've been trying to find a buyer for the Norinco 213  that I picked up on impulse, and it's proving difficult.

It's a fun little gun, but I don't really have any use for it.  That and I get tired of the hammer bite (big mitts) after about 150 rounds.