I keep a close watch on GunBroker particular and have noticed that over the last 6 months in particular, the numbe of collectible doubles has been declining in every auction cycle.
I’ve noticed the same thing in the narrow niche of guns that I watch for but was not sure across the wider double gun market here in the states. Yet, when Daniel Cote ceased publication of the DGJ last year he mentioned the “diminishing interest in classic guns,” and “…young people of today are not nearly so interested in classics guns…” as one of his two reasons for closing down the Journal (the other being rising material and labor costs). As a counter to that the Jan. ‘22 Field and Stream article on Mike Jensen”s double gun room in Kansas City stated, “It may come as a surprise that many of Jensen’s customers aren’t aging collectors, but younger hunters in their 30s and 40s, with the millennial’s taste for the artisanal and the handmade.”
So, I’m left scratching my head and accordingly, have slightly edited the original post to reflect that.
