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I am blessed with a Nephew who shoots, hunts and is getting an education concerning nice guns. He knows how to properly maintain them and load for them. He knows my collection and they will be passed down to him and his children. I will not have to worry about disposing of them when it's my time to leave this world. With limited funds supporting a young family he will inherit a number of very nice guns he otherwise would not be able to afford. He and his children will be caretakers well into the future.

Can I be your nephew? What does your nephew, and you....have to do with assuring gun values now and for the future propagation of gun values.....likely NOTHING?? Nevertheless, glad you have someone to inherit your collection. But still, this has nothing to do with future gun prices......sorry.

Yep Chuck, they are flat or are even down.



I'll give you what you paid for all your Ithaca 410s.

Sure you want .410�s Mike? Are they toys for upland birds? Are they cripplers, no matter how good the shot? Why hunt with a .410 when you can hunt with a gun that will do the job sooooo much better?? Hmmm.....

In Chuck's hands they are very effective bird guns.

One morning I watched him take three wild Kansas roosters over pointing dogs with his Ithaca 410. There was a foot of snow and the birds were sticking so the shots were short. But Chuck killed the birds dead dead dead.

I don't shoot well enough to do what Chuck did. But Chuck does.

I've got a little Birmy boxlock 28 gauge that shoots the same load as American 410s. It is pretty effective on pointed bobwhites. Haven't tried it on anything larger.

And besides, all the rational people are in line at the drive-thru at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Rational people do not chase semi-feral pointing dogs across the prairie in pursuit of their gallinaceous fare.

Some people will never understand, or admit, that.

SRH

I profess to be a good example to explain why the market for SxS's is "soft."

1) At 61 I am probably young by the standard of this Forum

2) The market for quality SxS's is hard to estimate. I thought I might like to get a Parker or Philadelphia Fox, but I found the variations confusing and I could not get a feel for how much a quality double should cost.

3) I do not hunt.

4) The members on the Smith & Wesson Forum are pleasant and eager to help. Many members of this Forum are a bit too snarky.

Buzz, I was replying to J�germeister's comment on too many guns and having to dispose of a collection. This is not a concern of mine so I can buy a nice gun when the urge takes me. There are a lot of very nice guns out there for very good prices. This is not a bad time to acquire some really fine guns. Just do the homework and research and view a lot of guns and real sleeper's can be found.

I know nothing about the high grade guns, but I've been following the prices of Beretta 620 series and 420 series for several years now and they have done nothing but go up. I wish I had bought several more of them when I had opportunity.

It always seems like some guns are a great "secret value" for a time but the word always seems to get out and the prices catch up with them. Years ago you could find 16 ga. guns for a bargain price. You could find Fox Sterlingworth 16 in high condition for 500-750, 20's for a few hundred more. I bought a 16 and 20 AE grades for less than 4K not very many years ago at the big Louisville winter gun show. Then the market adjusted and 16's and 20's went up in price.

Then it was German Guild guns. In 12 or 16 for 400-800. Some were as well made as guns costing three or four times as much. Or British hammerguns, then box locks all going for a song. Point is that in the end the market finds all the bargains and corrects the prices.

But low to mid range guns are unchanged, with a few exceptions, from what they were worth a year ago, two years ago or even five or more years ago. Maybe an adjustment is coming or maybe not. I remember my grandfather talking about how quickly horses fell out of favor for farm work. You could see matched teams complete with all tack going to the auction block and not even getting a ten dollar bid. Just a few years earlier they were worth hundreds of dollars each. That market decided almost over night that the era of horse for farm work was gone. Perhaps the era for cheap or worn out doubles is also almost done.