Hey, J.A.,
The gun is not mine, but I've been thinking along your lines. I realize we are writing on a collector forum, but I'm not a collector, per se. If I had bought this gun with hopes of making it a shooter, I would not be thinking of collector value. I'd be thinking of how much fun and use I could get out of it.
Who, among us, ever buys a new car with the thought of what it will be worth when we are through with it? We don't think that way about cars. We use the heck out of the car and then we go out and repeat the process. Technically, we lose money every time we drive a car off the lot, but we don't care. We keep buying them and using the heck out of them.
If this gun were mine, and if I'd bought it for a few hundred dollalrs and really wanted to make it a shooter, and if I found it would be a safe shooter, I wouldn't balk at $1,000 or more. I might not balk at further investments for upgrades as time went on. I'd get my investment out of the pleasure of USING the nice old gun. If I determined that it could be a safe shooter, I'd invest in it as I pleased and then, I assure you, I would absolutely use the livin' heck out of it for as long as I could walk behind a dog! I'm not kidding!
But it's not my gun. At least I had the fun of looking at it and exchanging thoughts with all of you gracious members today.
One of these days, I'll come back here with a Parker that IS my gun. In the meantime, please keep chiming in, as you wish, about my friend's antique store purchase.
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