opinions needed ---what to do?
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opinions needed ---what to do?
I happen to be the blessed owner of a
MARLIN 1894CSS (JM stamp) ---- new in box, unfired with all the tags still attached.
I never really paid attention and didn't know that the price had gone up on them ( I say blushing )
so my question is....do I break this bad boy out and make it my deer/hog rifle or do I keep it new and sell it? I could buy several new rifles for the current rate on these things. but i am unlikely to ever see one of these new again let alone own it.
what would you do? and if you say sell, what would you purchase with the cash?
MARLIN 1894CSS (JM stamp) ---- new in box, unfired with all the tags still attached.
I never really paid attention and didn't know that the price had gone up on them ( I say blushing )
so my question is....do I break this bad boy out and make it my deer/hog rifle or do I keep it new and sell it? I could buy several new rifles for the current rate on these things. but i am unlikely to ever see one of these new again let alone own it.
what would you do? and if you say sell, what would you purchase with the cash?
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
Would I sell a $450 rifle for $1200?
Yes.
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
I've never been one to sit on something, even if NIB. If I'm not shooting a firearm, even a NIB, and feel I will probably not get to it, I move it.
I've sold a number of Marlins over the last five years and made some very good money from their sale. I did not sell them because of their "current" value but for the fact that I was done with them. Honestly, I would not have bought them at today's prices.
I've sold a number of Marlins over the last five years and made some very good money from their sale. I did not sell them because of their "current" value but for the fact that I was done with them. Honestly, I would not have bought them at today's prices.
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
I guess your decision would depend on whether or not you need the cash and if you have room to store the rifle.
As a general rule, if I don't use it, it gets sold off. I'm not one to keep safe queens.
I sold off my one and only Python about ten years ago for what I thought was a decent profit, if I had held onto it I could easily have doubled my profit by today's values.
Got any kids? A JM stamped Marlin would make one heck of a graduation present.
As a general rule, if I don't use it, it gets sold off. I'm not one to keep safe queens.
I sold off my one and only Python about ten years ago for what I thought was a decent profit, if I had held onto it I could easily have doubled my profit by today's values.
Got any kids? A JM stamped Marlin would make one heck of a graduation present.
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
No kids yet. But hoping one day.
Don't need the money, except to spend that much more.
I had a python years ago. I did the same thing. Seems like i regret almost every firearm i have ever sold.
If i choose to sell, the money will go towards 16" stainless rossi ' s in 357 and 454.
Don't need the money, except to spend that much more.
I had a python years ago. I did the same thing. Seems like i regret almost every firearm i have ever sold.
If i choose to sell, the money will go towards 16" stainless rossi ' s in 357 and 454.
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
If you say you don't really need the money, and you've regretted almost every firearm you've ever sold, I'd say . . . Shoot it and enjoy it.
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I hear ya. I can think of three guns I've sold that I look back and regret sometimes.smithd1 wrote:No kids yet. But hoping one day.
Don't need the money, except to spend that much more.
I had a python years ago. I did the same thing. Seems like i regret almost every firearm i have ever sold.
If i choose to sell, the money will go towards 16" stainless rossi ' s in 357 and 454.
Sage advice right there.HarryAlonzo wrote:If you say you don't really need the money, and you've regretted almost every firearm you've ever sold, I'd say . . . Shoot it and enjoy it.
I've whittled my collection down to the guns I really enjoy shooting, the last gun I sold was a Hipoint TS4595 carbine about a year ago. No plans on selling anything unless some real drastic hard times fall on me. I better shut up before I jinx myself.
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
One of the Marlin's I sold was a 444P Outfitter. I really regretted that move and ended up finding and buying one that wasn't at an inflated price.
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I was really eyeballing that 16" stainless 454 on GB. hot diggity it went high!
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Re: opinions needed ---what to do?
I don't sell many.
I don't have many that are NIB after I've had them very long either.
I buy them to shoot them and I try to get them at prices I think I can at least get my money out of them.
Doesn't always happen when I buy a nice new one and take it right out to the range I figure I'm blowing a hundred or three right then with the first shot but I'm getting some use/value/fun out of it.
I don't have many that are NIB after I've had them very long either.
I buy them to shoot them and I try to get them at prices I think I can at least get my money out of them.
Doesn't always happen when I buy a nice new one and take it right out to the range I figure I'm blowing a hundred or three right then with the first shot but I'm getting some use/value/fun out of it.