I Need You Guy's Opinion

[rickjordan]

This is going to be a very long winded post so please bear with me. I need some insight on something that happened yesterday and really has me mad and upset. About ten years ago, my father asked me what I wanted of his when he passed away. I answered that I wanted his guns, his boat and his fishing stuff. Yesterday, my father called me and told me he has to sell his guns and his boat to pay off some debt he has. He wanted to know if I wanted to buy the Browning Medallion A-bolt 3006 that was going to be mine anyway. I was shocked- I was angry, upset and honestly felt betrayed! I also felt kind of like a grave robber since my Dad is very much alive and will be for quite a while I hope. I had visions of having that gun and hunting with it- I have hunted with it a lot over the years and I had visions of passing that gun on to my son one day and him also passing it on. It is a beautiful gun and shoots incredibly well! Now, my question is am I making too much of a simple gun? I will always look at that gun as my Dad's gun and it hold special meaning to me since we got it for him Christmas years ago. Honestly, I love that gun. I know I will come up with the money because that gun will never be somebody else's gun. What do you guys think of all this and am I making too much of this? Thanks