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It's possible to develop a sense of personal obligation to the makers of these guns and to men ungrown who might have the chance to use them. I can think of one e-dealer who might be capable of offering you the option of "ransoming" a gun from the torch. Best not let him see you sweat.

jack

Rabbit,
Ed's next set of advertisements will be made from random letters cut out of magazines.

The less Ithicas there are on the street, the more value yours has. Isn't that the game? Yours has just moved up a notch in the pecking order of things Ithica.

Good one Yeti!

jack

You know Marc, I have a similar observation but a different perspective. I have been around guns and gunners extensively my whole 55 years. The usual "cloth" I have seen interestingly is a rather stubborn, opinionated and rather intolerant bunch. I have never really understood why.
I have personally found that this board is much more varied, interesting (interested) and open minded than most other "gunners." Different social, political, cultural perspectives seem more at home here than many of the gun groups with which I have been involved.
But, there is certainly a strong thread running through this group that seems to love and cherish old double guns and the intangible esthetic aspects of them. Go figure.
Many here spend countless hours researching the guns and preserving/restoring them. That many would feel it is a shame that the parts are greater than the whole from a purely economic view with one of these disappearing pieces of American history does not suprise me. Why does it cause so much anger in you? Jake

Edited PS. It also occurs to me that history is full of similar disassembly of esthetically interesting objects for reuse. Countless bronze statues melted down for cannon balls for the conquering forces comes to mind. RCC

Has something to do with cosmopolitan experience. A number of fellows here have nearly seen it all and a whole lot more of us have seen just enuf to know we haven't. If we all thought that everyone is or should be just like us, that would mean we hadn't seen much. There are a couple of guys who also know it all but they trip up often enuf to make it interesting.

jack

Rob bought the barrels as an inexpensive way to improve his gun. So is there also something wrong with putting non-original barrels on his gun and parting out his original barrels?

It's a curious romantic notion that there's important inherent value in preserving as originally built a worn, nicked up, non-rare field gun of little monetary value. Seems very strange that some would damn the moral character of a person they've not met who doesn't happen to be religious about this ... sentimentality running amuck.

As another generation passes, I'm afraid many of these guns will decline dramatically in value and go to scrap anyway.

As in "lead is dead"?

jack

Indeed Rabbit, indeed. I wonder about all these old field guns I and many others hoard. When that inevitable pronouncement comes, those old shooters are going to take a very big drop. I often think it may be prudent to let go of most of the stash. Jake

Some of that Jack, but moreso the demographics of the shooting population and upland and waterfowl gunners. Clutching our values close to our hearts won't preserve them when we're gone.

Jay