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10-23-2003, 01:07 PM
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Firearms dispersal when you die.
This isn't a jolly topic, but one we'll all face. I'm 66 and won't last all that long. I have 17 long guns, all in excellent shape. Normally I'd will them to me only son. He was in the USMC for 8 years, operated a military range, and has a good knowledge of firearms. Unfortunately he's married to a tree hugger and has 3 daughters who have been thoroughly brainwashed by their mother. You know the bit, "animals are our friends. We never hurt our litle friends, etc..." She won't even allow guns in the house, and he apparently is reluctant to stand up to her. I have no intention of interferring, but wonder, do others among you have similar problems as to the disposition of your firearms when you pass on? Best wishes.
Cal - Montreal 
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10-23-2003, 01:39 PM
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I too have one son that is married to a tree hugger, but, somehow my son stopped hunting after his first actual kill. I guess hunting is not foe everyone. I wouldn't leave the guns to him just becuase he wouldn't use them and I know his wife wouldn't allow it.
Lucky me  I have another son that hunts with me. He is just the opposite. He started hunting more after his first sucessfull hunt. He is not married yet and has no plans to in the near future so he would get them if I was to pass on too soon. Other than that, I guess I could leave them to a nephew or to the gun club to raffle or even a friens kid  That's a good question Cal, it's got me thinking. Good luck to you. It's a tough topic that needs to be addressed.
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10-23-2003, 04:58 PM
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Cal,
I'm in the same boat as you. My wife is a non hunter,my three daughters are also. One son-in-law is a non hunting farmer and the other one quit hunting soon after marrying my daughter. I hope I live awhile. Frank
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10-23-2003, 09:23 PM
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You gentlemen could always give your liberty teeth to local militia whom you trust
...... to do the right thngs with 'what you want done with "your things."'
The one son, TB, who hunts with you - you could always give him what you want him to have with the promise and understanding he'll keep things and use them the way you intended him to. My father is now deceased, but I can easily imagine him having said something similar to me, but he didn't. He knew me very well of course and I even got so I could out-shoot my dad often enough. My sister is very pro-gun and her hubb is an avid hunter. When my mother divides the spoils, she'll do it down the middle. I hope all of you gents live a long, long time - even just to give the anti-gun, tree hugger types a bad time.  
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#5
10-23-2003, 09:42 PM
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I'd let the son know that you would like to leave them to him. If he says no, then start going to hunter safety courses. Figure out a way to "donate" (following all applicable laws naturally) to a kid who seems appreciative.
Give them to your gun club maybe? My son and two daughters will no doubt be fighting over my collection so I'm really not in the same boat. Good luck to you
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10-24-2003, 12:18 AM
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Interesting point and one I have never thought of = Well guess my youngest daughter will get the guns as she is my huntress
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10-24-2003, 01:05 AM
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Cal you've got a good topic going. One I've been thinking about for awhile myself. Looks like my nephew will get mine. My daughter took after the "ex". One of her lines " have you been murdering anything lately"
, of course I then fill her in on it . So anyway I see that I'd be wasting my time giving mine to one of my two grandsons is when I came up with my nephew. Course if those grandkids lived in my state I might could sway them one day, it's doubtful though. Trying to find someone that will take care of them as well as "we" do comes into play also. I'm training my nephew to take care of them, cause I'm real particular about that. I'm sure you all know guys that don't know what oil and a clean firearm are. My neighbor and my brother-in-law both like rust on theirs, mine won't go to either. Told my nephew just the other day I'd better not ever see his looking like that! Anyway Cal, you might keep that in mind also.
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10-24-2003, 06:52 PM
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While i reckon i'm technically still a "youngster", i've given it alot of thought.
Ya know, I remember when I was a youngun, lookin at my pop cleanin them guns with care and pride, thinkin, one day I might be cleanin them guns..i can kill big bucks with em! I would watch him fer hours on end. Sometimes he'd tell a story, er sing a blugrass song. And there has been so many times while i'm cleanin them same guns to git my 10 yr old so sit down with me, learn a lil somethin, or just enjoy huntin stories my pop told me. Yeah right..caint take his eyes offa the simpsons long enough, er play that dammed ole xbox his grandma bought him. ( i flatly refused to spend nary a penny on games and such) And i've sat there with a half hurt/half confused look and wondered...when he gits these guns..is he really gonna appreciatte em? He gonna wind up git hard up fer money and sell to the first redneck that comes along? What's gonna become of "my pop" when i'm gone? I thinkin that I might give him one, maybe 2. But.. I'm thinkin I might just sell em when I git older..to a kid who's been gittin up hay fer a yr to save up fer his first gun ta hunt with. Even iffin a 2000$ gun goes fer 40$, I dont care. The way I see it, its times like that, when you truly appreciatte whatcha got. I know i did. There's approximatley 39 lines carved in a stock of that ole fox double..and iffin the good lord is willin, I'll kill more bucks to add to them scratchins. They started in 1935, when my pop was a youngun, and I hope, somebody after me...will keep on scratchin..till the year 2035 or more. That would mean more to me...than my son, flesh and blood er not, would sell it, and them scratches would fade away.
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10-24-2003, 07:17 PM
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Lilred
Don't give up on the youngster yet, he may still come around. But I would have to agree with you, it would sure be a shame if my son was to sell my guns, just because things got a little tight for him. Which I don't think would happen because he dearly love guns.
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10-25-2003, 12:35 AM
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On the lighter side I sure know what happens when the wife leaves = She sells your guns (twice) LmHO now-not then
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#12
10-30-2003, 11:32 AM
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Good question. I have already given my nephews each a gun. I doubt either of my daughters would want my guns. And I don't have any friends to give them to. I think I will just tell my wife to sell them and let her enjoy the money. After all, she was good enough to let me buy any of them I wanted without complaining, it'll be her turn for a change.
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03-12-2004, 05:26 PM
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Guess I'm one lucky dad. Have 3 daughters and one son, they all hunt as do their husbands and wife, 6 grandchildren and with the exception of one they all hunt, the one that doesn't hunt likes to shoot and fish and may yet hunt, still have time to work on her. We, as a family, have already decided who gets what guns and there are plenty to go around. When the mountain gets to high and the valley to deep the winters to cold and the summers to hot I will give them the guns that they killed their first deer with, first quail, first coyote, etc. I would rather they enjoy them when I still around to see it then after I'm gone.
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#14
03-12-2004, 07:48 PM
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cal
good post sir! i am lucky both my kids love to fish/hunt(son is 15 duaghter is 11) . they have all ready decided what guns they would like .my son was given my gradfarthers .22 single shot remington rifle when he showed that he was responsible and deserved it, he was 12 . my daguhter wants a .410 savage single shoot that she got her first squirrles and rabbits with ,she will recive it soon . this question is a very hard one for some i think .i am glad that you posed it . i wish all who read this the best of luck with there dicisions. i have willed that all my guns and fishing gear be evenly divded bettween my kids if i should pass before i give them to them. i intend to live a long time .
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03-12-2004, 10:26 PM
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My son gets em all, as my daughter probably won't care. They are only 9 (son) and 8 (daughter) so hopefully they don't get em too early as I'm not ready to give em up yet.
I did start sort of handing em down to the by as just this Feb for his birthday I gave him my first 22LR I ever bought for myself. A nice old Winchester mdl 67 finger groove. He was very happy!! He's taking a strong interest as he should since I've been dragging him along huntin since he was 2 1/2 yrs old.
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