Well, thanks guys,
but I disagree about them being to nice to hunt with. I hunt with mine!
Look........If you buy a $26,000 automobile, and you drive it around for 10 years it will drop in value about 75%. It will get scratches, shopping cart dents, chips in the windshield, and the paint will fade and maybe crack or blister. But you have no problem using it for the intended purpose......right?
Now if you buy a $3000 muzzle loader and use it for 10 years you will get some wear and scratches on it too. But in 10 years it goes
UP in value a bit. Sometimes quite a but, like 25% to 40%
Even my lower priced guns don't drop in value. At $1400, some of the guns I made 15 years ago are still sold for about the same amount today. The lower priced guns don't go up faster than the average,
but they don't drop either. I made and sold guns 15-20 years ago that sell today for the same price my customers bought them for.
And they sold for a LOT less then a car.
This is not true with even the best factory guns, and not even with semi-custom guns. But fully handmade custom guns (
of fine quality) don't go down in value. They hold their own, or go up!
So why would we not use well made, nice guns?
This one has been used by me to kill antelope, deer elk and one moose.
my Rifle 2 by
Steve Zihn, on Flickr
My Rifle 3 by
Steve Zihn, on Flickr
My Rifle by
Steve Zihn, on Flickr