Unless I get grandkids that hunt or shoot I wont have anyone to pass them down to. When the time comes I plan to find someone in their teens to early 20s that cant afford a really nice gun and just give it to them with a letter of the history and the promise to pass it down to someone who also deserves it. I'll do that for each gun. I wont need the money at the end of the road in life.
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hesse
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They may if you take them shooting or they may not I have 3 kids 2 love to shoot 1 does not . They all know how to and the safe handling of firearms(they are adults)
memtb
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Sorry to hear of your friend's passing!
This is an issue that my wife and I are presently addressin. Some will be easy, and will divided among our children/grandchildren, handled with our "trust".
Other rifles/handguns, especially my favorite hunting rifle, will have to be sold to someone that handloads and wants a high horsepower/heavy recoil rifle. I really hope that it goes to someone that will fully appreciate and use it! !
I certainly hope that I won't be able to look back here from the afterlife and witness what will happen to that which I dearly love and took me a lifetime to accumulate! memtb
This is an issue that my wife and I are presently addressin. Some will be easy, and will divided among our children/grandchildren, handled with our "trust".
Other rifles/handguns, especially my favorite hunting rifle, will have to be sold to someone that handloads and wants a high horsepower/heavy recoil rifle. I really hope that it goes to someone that will fully appreciate and use it! !
I certainly hope that I won't be able to look back here from the afterlife and witness what will happen to that which I dearly love and took me a lifetime to accumulate! memtb
Nicely done Memtb !
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Unless it happens suddenly, I've got it covered in my will. Suggest everyone go to a lawyer and see to it ASAP! But if I have time I've got some youngsters to make donations to. My son is well provided for. He loves to shoot and anyone attacking him is in deep water. 6 ft 4 inches 260 pounds. Armed with a Springfield prodigy. Plus his beloved AR,s. One gun I've never warmed to. So I've got it covered. Just hope it doesn't happen soon. 
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hesse
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My parents just did this . They had a auction. He sold over a 120 gun a ton of reloading materials. Classic car collection. Then sold the house also. That being said he had me come and get what I wanted before the sale and he'd kept all the reloading materials and does and press for the caliber I shoot. They are taking the money and adding on to the lake cottage in Michigan and the have a place in AZ for the winter. I am.glad that he did it this way .
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Thinning the herd:
Initially I thought that this was going to be a slight bit of humor regarding the selling off of some personal firearms. However...
This can be and really is a serious enough matter to put some time and effort into making these decisions ahead of the time before it becomes necessary.
I've handle 4 of these situations for the widows of friends who had hunted and shot a lot. They left behind significant numbers of firearms which their brides really had no interest in or specific knowledge of. And I have agreed with the wives in that they really didn't need to have significant knowledge of their husband's firearms. So I did the best I could to handle this for them, getting everything organized and sold without stressing out the wives. But it would have been much simpler if this had been addressed before their husbands passed.
One of my last best friends who is a gunsmith and avid shooter/hunter joined me in the idea of managing and documenting our possessions. We have a current list by serial number and value based on current dollars. We took pictures and created a file for each item. We also update when necessary to stay current.
Yes, it can take some work but the savings in stress for those left behind is huge. Take some time and consideration before it becomes necessary.
Have a Joyous and Merry Christmas!
Initially I thought that this was going to be a slight bit of humor regarding the selling off of some personal firearms. However...
This can be and really is a serious enough matter to put some time and effort into making these decisions ahead of the time before it becomes necessary.
I've handle 4 of these situations for the widows of friends who had hunted and shot a lot. They left behind significant numbers of firearms which their brides really had no interest in or specific knowledge of. And I have agreed with the wives in that they really didn't need to have significant knowledge of their husband's firearms. So I did the best I could to handle this for them, getting everything organized and sold without stressing out the wives. But it would have been much simpler if this had been addressed before their husbands passed.
One of my last best friends who is a gunsmith and avid shooter/hunter joined me in the idea of managing and documenting our possessions. We have a current list by serial number and value based on current dollars. We took pictures and created a file for each item. We also update when necessary to stay current.
Yes, it can take some work but the savings in stress for those left behind is huge. Take some time and consideration before it becomes necessary.
Have a Joyous and Merry Christmas!
Laelkhunter
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Good Luck !! I said the same thing 10 years ago. I'm 70 now and that 10 years went by in a flash. I don't feel any different (physically) since then, and now I'm hoping to continue until I'm 80.
I'm not near as organized as Sable above but since I do have some that were gifted to me or left from friends who passed I just got a a&d book and in the notes recorded the details of who I got it from and why that piece is special to me.
levers4life
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I put hang tags on family heirlooms that shouldn't be sold. Grandpa's deer rifle & shotgun for example.....
