Your point may be valid, if you are a "trader", but if, like me, you believe in keeping and shooting an older quality gun, for its intrinsic value if nothing more, than the money spent is money well spent--IMO anyway. I don't buy older American shotguns (Model 12's and L.C. Smiths mainly) to sell later on, I buy them to keep and shoot.


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..