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dickr2

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Dec 25, 2009, 5:43:00 PM12/25/09
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My son owns 2 guns in my gun cabinet, but he doesn't really
have a place to store them in his house. He and my son in law
were over one time and I showed them my guns. There was a comment
recently by my daughter and son in law relating to my guns.
I thought they were lusting for my guns, but no, they just wanted
to tell me about a friend who lives on a farm south of us, and he has
a pistol range setup. The friend has lots of handguns that he offers
people to try out. They shoot at targets, but also watermelons
when in season. We made a date to go shooting at the farm next
spring or summer. Among other handguns, I'm bringing my unfired
Colt MK IV series 80 and see what it will do to a watermelon.
Pristine, unfired, collector item be damned, I'm going to shoot
that Colt .45 before my ashes are put in a box!

It's going to be fun,
Dick


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Bluehawk99

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Dec 26, 2009, 7:43:42 AM12/26/09
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Sounds like fun but what was it you were worried about?

greylock

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Dec 26, 2009, 7:43:44 AM12/26/09
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:43:00 +0000 (UTC), dickr2 <dic...@frontier.com>
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> ...


I am in complete agreement. I owned a Weatherby Olympic Commerative at
one time. I won it in a contest. I sold it because I couldn't shoot it
without reducing the value and also because I really didn't need a
..300 Weatherby rifle for hunting in Texas.

dickr2

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Dec 26, 2009, 2:01:33 PM12/26/09
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Bluehawk99 wrote:
# Sounds like fun but what was it you were worried about?
#
#
Sometimes I jump to conclusions before I have all the facts.
I was afraid they were thinking that since I don't use the guns,
I'd be willing to sell or give them away to them. Silly me!
I guess I have a lot of stuff that I don't "use", but they are
things that give me pleasure in owning.

Dick

Bluehawk99

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Dec 26, 2009, 8:50:32 PM12/26/09
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dickr2 <dic...@frontier.com> wrote:
"Sometimes I jump to conclusions before I have all the facts.
# I was afraid they were thinking that since I don't use the guns,
# I'd be willing to sell or give them away to them. Silly me!
# I guess I have a lot of stuff that I don't "use", but they are
# things that give me pleasure in owning."

My wife thought the same way..."you don't hardly ever shoot them...why
don't you sell them?"
She also asked that same question about my radio controlled airplanes,
reloading equipment, and even my shop tools !!!!!!!
My response "Just because I don't use them every day doesn't mean I
don't need/want them and I love and enjoy having them around me and I
worked hard to get all of it but mostly because it's MINE!!!!!!
Needless to say I kept ALL of it in the divorce...there was no
compromise on any of those things! :o)
p.s... there is an r/c airplane five feet away from me charging up
it's receiver batteries and transmitter...almost ready to go.. and is
still flyable after 16 years!
It survived longer than my marriage! ::chuckling::

flattrack38

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Dec 26, 2009, 8:50:31 PM12/26/09
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On Dec 25, 4:43�pm, dickr2 <dic...@frontier.com> wrote:
# My son owns 2 guns in my gun cabinet, but he doesn't really
# have a place to store them in his house. He and my son in law
# were over one time and I showed them my guns. There was a comment
# recently by my daughter and son in law relating to my guns.
# I thought they were lusting for my guns, but no, they just wanted
# to tell me about a friend who lives on a farm south of us, and he has
# a pistol range setup. The friend has lots of handguns that he offers
# people to try out. They shoot at targets, but also watermelons
# when in season. We made a date to go shooting at the farm next
# spring or summer. Among other handguns, I'm bringing my unfired
# Colt MK IV series 80 and see what it will do to a watermelon.
# Pristine, unfired, collector item be damned, I'm going to shoot
# that Colt .45 before my ashes are put in a box!
#
# It's going to be fun,
# Dick
#


Now if it was an unfired Series 70 you'd be foolish to fire it.

Tom Line

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Dec 26, 2009, 9:23:59 PM12/26/09
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Don't worry. Young guys like Glocks and newer plastic technology guns better than a true
and trusted made of steel work of art.

David R.Birch

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Dec 27, 2009, 5:50:45 PM12/27/09
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flattrack38 wrote:

# Now if it was an unfired Series 70 you'd be foolish to fire it.

If you mean foolish because it will lose value from being fired, I
counter that it has no value until it is fired, before that it's just
an overpriced paperweight. If I had a gun too good to risk losing
value by shooting it, I'd sell the safe queen and buy two or three I
could actually use.

David

Jim

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Dec 31, 2009, 1:44:57 PM12/31/09
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"flattrack38" <flatt...@mailinator.com> wrote in message
news:hh6eh6$nau$1...@news.albasani.net...
# On Dec 25, 4:43 pm, dickr2 <dic...@frontier.com> wrote:

# Now if it was an unfired Series 70 you'd be foolish to fire it.


That would completely depend on whether one was a collector or a shooter.

Being the latter, safe queens aren't for me and I'd be making it do what it
was designed to do as fast as I could.

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