GUNS THAT SERIOUS COLLECTORS BUY NOT CARING ABOUT MARKET TRENDS

Above, the 1962 Winchester 94 .30-30 I bought in 2019. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

I am not a gun collector. Over the years, I will buy a firearm because I just wanted it or tried one out and liked how it shoots.

The closest thing to a "collection" are the three Winchesters: Winchester Model 94, Winchester Model 62A (inherited from my grandfather) and a Winchester Model 12 shotgun. 

The Avid Outdoorsman posted an article on the guns that serious collectors buy when they stop caring what the market is doing. I was lucky to find the pre-64 Winchester 94 before the pandemic and the prices started skyrocketing. (I saw one this morning of the same year at almost triple the price I paid.) I was looking for one for a while and found it while killing time in an Albuquerque gun store. 

As it turns out, I have two guns on The Avid Outdoorsman list. 

The article begins with:

There’s a stage most gun guys hit after they’ve watched enough “hot” calibers come and go and enough panic cycles roll through like bad weather. You stop trying to guess what’s going to jump in price next month. You stop caring what the forums say is “dead.” You start buying the guns you actually want to own, shoot, carry, and hand down.

Serious collectors aren’t always chasing rare. A lot of the time, they’re chasing right. The stuff that feels good in the hands, runs when it’s dirty, has parts and mags that don’t require a scavenger hunt, and still makes sense in the deer woods or on a gravel road after dark. Here are the kinds of firearms I see seasoned buyers quietly go after when the market noise fades out.

To read more, go here. 

Practical Guide To Selling A Gun Collection

Sometimes people need the sell their guns, whether they sell their guns one at a time or the whole collection. There's a myriad of reasons why they need to do so.

GUNSweek posted an article on how to sell a gun collection. 

They begin it with:

Whether you have a collection that's outgrown your storage or inherited guns that don't fit your needs, you may want to know how to sell a gun collection.

The process definitely comes with questions that selling a single firearm doesn't.

How do you value dozens of guns at once? Is it better to sell everything together or piece it out? Which selling method gets you the best return without consuming your entire life?

And what if you don't know much about the guns you're trying to sell?

This guide walks through all of it – from valuation to selling methods to the logistics of actually getting it done.

To read the full article, go here.