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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1445429" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>If they mean more than cash to you, give them to someone who cares or sell them yourself and blow the money or give it to your wife. You won't feel right otherwise. If they hold no value other than cash to you, give them to whoever.</p><p></p><p>My grandpa was in very bad health when I was 11 and started giving stuff away while he could see it. He gave me his Winchester 94, that about half the guys in town, including my dad when he started hunting (dad was his son-in-law) had killed a deer with. It was the loaner gun, he had lots of friends. I killed my first deer with it that fall, and he died the next year. It's never going anywhere. It's beat to hell and has dropped many a deer, and been carried many a mile.</p><p>He gave my dad his engraved 1903 hammerless, it'll never go anywhere as long as I'm alive. </p><p></p><p>My dad has a couple guns that aren't worth much, but I want them because they've been carried a lot of places over the years. </p><p></p><p>Plus if you give them to someone who doesn't value them, you'll piss off someone like me. A family member that is not into guns ended up with a particular gun that would have meant a lot to me, I can only assume it has been pawned. To add insult to injury, it had decent cash value and I'm sure they got ripped off on the sale. I don't know for sure they sold it, but I can't see that person keeping a gun. Oh well, wasn't mine to begin with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1445429, member: 4319"] If they mean more than cash to you, give them to someone who cares or sell them yourself and blow the money or give it to your wife. You won't feel right otherwise. If they hold no value other than cash to you, give them to whoever. My grandpa was in very bad health when I was 11 and started giving stuff away while he could see it. He gave me his Winchester 94, that about half the guys in town, including my dad when he started hunting (dad was his son-in-law) had killed a deer with. It was the loaner gun, he had lots of friends. I killed my first deer with it that fall, and he died the next year. It's never going anywhere. It's beat to hell and has dropped many a deer, and been carried many a mile. He gave my dad his engraved 1903 hammerless, it'll never go anywhere as long as I'm alive. My dad has a couple guns that aren't worth much, but I want them because they've been carried a lot of places over the years. Plus if you give them to someone who doesn't value them, you'll piss off someone like me. A family member that is not into guns ended up with a particular gun that would have meant a lot to me, I can only assume it has been pawned. To add insult to injury, it had decent cash value and I'm sure they got ripped off on the sale. I don't know for sure they sold it, but I can't see that person keeping a gun. Oh well, wasn't mine to begin with. [/QUOTE]
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