A discussion on selling guns to buy nicer ones
Even though we hit 110+ for the 4th day straight yesterday(102 today is gonna feel downright chilly), a buddy of mine and me hit the trap range yesterday. In the course of one of our breaks while I was nursing a frosty Mexican Coca Cola, the subject of how we build our collections came up.
Now, while we both love shotguns, we are entirely different collectors. I love Parkers and he loves pre war Browing A5s. Still, while we may go different directions some of the issues we encounter on paying for them are the same.
My uncle always refers to his collection as gun equity. Meaning that for the most part the majority of his collection is for sale to buy the next right gun that comes along. It is always just a matter of how much "gun equity" you wish to dip into.
This brings us to the actual question at hand from yesterday, one which I will honestly say I struggled with.
If you found what you considered to be the "it" gun for your respective collecting bug, ie Parkers for most of us, would you liquidate the rest of your collection to purchase said gun.
His answer was a quick yes, in a heartbeat. He actually knows where his so called "it" gun is located, so he has probably debated this in the past if it ever comes up for sale.
For me it is more of a debate. If I sold all of my Parkers, I think I could get up to a decent A grade. A 33" 3 frame AA is more what I would call my "it" gun, but I do not believe my collection would get me there.
However, after long debate with myself, I feel the answer is no. While I would love to have that high grade gun, I enjoy looking at them and comparing the ones I currently have too much to actually reduce myself down to one lone Parker even if it was a very high grade. Heck, I don't even know that I could bite the bullet on my collection enough to make a jump to a BHE....
Anyway, just curious what some of ya'll's positions might be....
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"The Parker gun was the first and the greatest ever." Theophilus Nash Buckingham
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