Foreign Weapons and Obscure Builds V3

Faktory 47

Axeman

If you can’t laugh at yourself you’re FUKT!!!
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I don’t understand this general belief.
It you leave the finish as is it’s worth more, even though it looks like shit.
But if you have it re-blued to protect it for another hundred years and make it look nice, it’s worth less.

I have an 1897 take down that I’m struggling with.
Yeah, it’s the collectors who drive that ideology. They’d rather know the finish was original and have a small amount of “honest wear” or “patina” than have something refinished by a newer method.

I was a collector, and went by the same ideal until one day I realized that NONE of my stuff was destined for a museum, and that when I die it’ll all get sold off to fund something more important for my family.

So now I only *try* to buy stuff that I really have a purpose for using.

But I’ve still got a lot of my ‘collection’ hanging around that I’ve gotta find a new home for.
Just haven’t been motivated enough to do it.
 

lesptr

Ninja
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Yeah, it’s the collectors who drive that ideology. They’d rather know the finish was original and have a small amount of “honest wear” or “patina” than have something refinished by a newer method.

I was a collector, and went by the same ideal until one day I realized that NONE of my stuff was destined for a museum, and that when I die it’ll all get sold off to fund something more important for my family.

So now I only *try* to buy stuff that I really have a purpose for using.

But I’ve still got a lot of my ‘collection’ hanging around that I’ve gotta find a new home for.
Just haven’t been motivated enough to do it.

I went to the NRA museum about 10 years ago. They have a 30-40 krag that had been reworked to be a beautiful hunting rifle and it had been re-blued.
It was the best bluing job I had ever seen. Absolutely Gorgeous!

But let’s leave old guns with no finish on them so they can get more pitted and pitiful every year.

And yet, I still haven’t t done anything with my 1897 or my 30-40 krag that have been in the family for 3 maybe 4 generations.