Goodbye To Eight More

[Sir Henry]

I just sold eight more firearms to Cabelas today. I made money on the 91/30’s except the PU Sniper. Overall I’m doing great but mainly because I bought them wholesale 20 years ago when I had my C&R.

I’m now at the point where I’m confident I will at least break even when all is sold. I’m way ahead now but the next batch will be 10/22’s and I suspect breaking even on them will be difficult.

[North Country Gal]

The 60s and even 70-80s vintage 10/22s before Ruger went to birch stocks bring some pretty good prices, especially the less common variations and I know you have a nice collection of those. If you have the boxes and papers, you might be surprised what you get. I know Cabela's loves the minty early vintage stuff.

[Sir Henry]

The 60s and even 70-80s vintage 10/22s before Ruger went to birch stocks bring some pretty good prices, especially the less common variations and I know you have a nice collection of those. If you have the boxes and papers, you might be surprised what you get. I know Cabela's loves the minty early vintage stuff.

Yes I have some early collectible ones like a sporter, finger grove sporter and a paddle boat. They may bring top dollar unfortunately I also paid top dollar.

I was thinking I wouldn’t get much for the Nagants but they fetched about 400% more than I paid. Only problem is four times not much is still not much. The PU sniper I bought right after Enemy At The Gates came out and even with the C&R I paid a lot. They aren’t worth as much now and I lost money.

The two Ruger Vaqueros brought me a handsome profit. Yes overall I’ll make a profit but I would have done better buying more mutual funds. But I never spent a Saturday at the range with a mutual fund.

[North Country Gal]

Once in a great while I run across someone who made a killing investing in guns and later selling them off. I know one such person, in fact. Overall, though, investing in guns for profit is a risky retirement plan. Yeah, lots of fun, though.

[BigAl52]

Ya but when you do make money its all yours no taxes are paid

[North Country Gal]

The guy I know worked up here as a timber cutter all his life. This was all prior to 1964, by the way. Instead of hitting the bars with his coworkers when he got paid, he put that money into buying a new Winchester lever gun or bolt rifle every paycheck, going out of his way to find the less common variants. He told me that he could buy these for as little as $30 to $60 back in the old days. When it came time to retire, he had a collection of hundreds of these rifles. At auction, many of them brought five figures. He actually was able to retire on what he made. Of course, he didn't know any of them would become so collectible. He just liked Winchester lever guns and thought it would be fun to collect them. His nickname, locally, is Winchester Bill. He's in his 80s, now, but still gets out to the range to shoot on a regular basis, but mostly with bolt guns. He's one heck of a shot, too.