A quality shotgun is a lot like a collector car, high end watch or piece of art. They retain value. You may not get it but lots of others do.Proof that some people have more money than brains. Even if I had that kind of scratch, I still couldnt imagine dropping that on a shotgun.
Edit: OK, maybe if it was owned by somebody famous like Elvis, John Dillinger, etc. But just for some gold inlay and handmade craftsmanship? Nope.
Yep. And if you want to light your cuban cigars with $100 bills, more power to ya.A quality shotgun is a lot like a collector car, high end watch or piece of art. They retain value. You may not get it but lots of others do.
You may be doing that yourself sooner than you think.Yep. And if you want to light your cuban cigars with $100 bills, more power to ya.
toucheYou may be doing that yourself sooner than you think.
High dollar guns very seldom lose money. I have a Ruger (not high dollar) I gave $59.07 when new. It has had ten's of thousands of rounds through it raising 3 kids and 3 grandkids and I just turned down $850 for it. Good made guns will always increase in value.
BEAUTIFUL gun.I just picked this Ithaca double up at the Tipton gun show this weekend. I bought it right and plan on keeping it after putting on a new buttpad.
If you keep your eyes open, they are out there.
A lot of higher end trap shotguns are in the $1000+ range, easily $4-5,000+ on up to tens of thousands. Go the Grand American and you can find a lot of them.There are several gunmakers in Italy making high end shotguns.
My old shotgun works just fine.
A lot of higher end trap shotguns are in the $1000+ range, easily $4-5,000+ on up to tens of thousands. Go the Grand American and you can find a lot of them.
Very nice. A real classic. I’m not into doubles but one like that would tempt me !I just picked this Ithaca double up at the Tipton gun show this weekend. I bought it right and plan on keeping it after putting on a new buttpad.
If you keep your eyes open, they are out there.
That brings back memories. I lived the first half of my life between Toledo and Findlay but left Ohio 30 years ago. I haven't heard the name Jaqua's since then but it came right back to me when I read your post.Agreed,...one of my most favorite places on earth(Jaqua's, no 'c'). Used to be a regular there when I was working out of Toledo and had my FFL. That was the place for 'bargains' in the $1000-2000 range as they specialize in higher end and move the 'junk' quickly. Also a good place for deals on handguns and rifles for the same reason,.....they're a 'shotgun' store. They just blow out anything that isn't high-grade shotgun,.....or at least they used to. I haven't been there in a decade since I just don't get to that part of the country anymore. They always treated me nice. I've never seen another place where you can walk in and help yourself to a twenty thousand dollar gun off the rack and no one bats an eye. Don't know if that's still the case, but that's how it was 10-20yrs ago. BTW, the whole store is one giant vault. Keep your eyes open as you enter.
Try having that conversation with people about NFA machineguns. I use the same bass boat analogy because spending money on a boat is something I have never understood. I had this talk with my b-i-l one day. I tossed a RDIAS over to him and asked what he thought it was worth. Could not convince him that it was worth ten dollars,.....and then I told him I had paid TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for it. Let him go on awhile about how stupid I was for spending $10k on a whittled out piece of aluminum,.......Cameramonkey, et al,
I get a kick out of people who say “HOW MUCH did you pay for that gun ?”
An acquaintance once asked me what kind of shotgun I owned as he knew I was a skeet and sporting clays shooter. I told him I shot a Krieghoff and he then pressed me for what I had paid for it.
Before I gave him an answer about the cost of my Krieghoff I asked him a question. I said “ Don’t you own a bass boat ?” He replied he did. I then asked him what he paid for it when new, how many times he used it last year, amd what was it worth now ? The answers were $50,000, three times, and - a lot less than I paid for it.
My response was to tell him what my Krieghoff cost, how many times I shot it last year (7,500 rounds), and informed him of the current market value - which was more than what I paid even allowing for inflation. My acquaintance thereafter shut up amd quit giving me a hard time about what I have paid for some of my guns.
Just to give you some reference, here are some pics. One of the Krieghoff I spoke off, one of a Winchester I just had engraved, and the last is another Krieghoff. I could provide more details and/0r more pics but you should get the idea.
”Life is too short to be married to an ugly woman, own a stupid dog, or shoot a non exciting gun.”
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