[QUOTE=Rich Anderson

I have no one in my family to pass guns down to so I'll just use them to the best of my ability and my heirs will have to sort them out.[/QUOTE]

Don't forget your brother from another mother down here in MD. I'll have my attorney contact yours to draw up the paperwork.:)

Thank you C.O.B., that's good information that I wouldn't have known. I also like seeing your pointer posing on your gunstock. Great photo!

Wayne, I'm sending you a PM.

Chuck

Thank you Wayne. The photo is of Gunner a wonderful companion for almost 15 years. The gun was custom built using a VH 20ga in his honor.

Ok thanks Chuck, I'll look for it, not there yet.

if this was my grandpas gun only sickness in the family would make me sell it...there s been a few fair looking 28 gauges on gunbroker in this past year below 10.000for sale if this helps...

It helps a lot. I got a similar thought from Chuck, so thank you both. At that price, maybe I can safely pass it on to my niece with children and trust that it's not worth so much as to tempt her husband to sell it. That's my real dilemma, so in a way, it's a relief to find that it's not worth so much after all. It was my great grandfather's, and well used by the end of his life. My grandfather had put it in his attic and never looked at it again. My father thought it was a deer rifle. I wasn't any smarter, having once tried to sell it while in college for $300 but couldn't find a taker. Anyhow, I've hunted with it for fifty years and I greatly appreciate the encouragement from people here to find a way to keep it in my family. I guess that's what I came on this site to learn.

One just sold here in the Carolinas for $8000, very nice gun.