My thinking is that I just traded a 1927 William Evans BLE 12 bore to a friend with a thriving gun business in Ontario for "trade"
In trade I have a mint Remington 28 ga skeet gun for my junior shooters, an STI 45 automatic, and a SU 16 for fun. Much more sellable
I would go for gold bars right now.
An important remark came up and this has been bothering me, hypothetically I have a cabinet full of guns, Parkers, Foxes, Hollands whatever. I will never die so I make no arrangement for any kind of disposal.
But I do die and leave my widow to deal with the disposal of my guns and reloading stuff,powder, shot, etc.
Not fair is it. Of course the creepy "friends" will, call round.....
So I have left my guns to my young friends, the boys whom I taught to shoot.
So the takehome message is, please do not leave your widow
to deal with your late husband's " great friends" from the Trap Club