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Does anyone else do this? I recently found myself in the far back corner of my attic staring at a pile of cardboard boxes. In my hands was another long and skinny box destined to join the pile as it's final resting place. Why do I do this? If my wife were ask why I bother to keep them I would likely respond that guns in their original box, even if used, sell for a higher price and that she would thank me if we ever go to sell them. But to be honest these boxes will never be used again. Any gun I own that ever travels has a hard case or carrier or a holster or a range bag, etc... I have a strict policy of "you buy guns, not sell guns." If I get bored with a gun or I decided I don't like it, it gets oiled and vacuum sealed and then stashed or cached somewhere. If i had a gun I deemed to be so unsafe that I would never fire it even in a time of need I would not feel right selling it. No... I have a pile of card board boxes in my attic because when I was young and impressionable someone said "keep the boxes that your guns come in." and I have been doing it ever since.

On to the pile it went.

Does anyone else do this? I recently found myself in the far back corner of my attic staring at a pile of cardboard boxes. In my hands was another long and skinny box destined to join the pile as it's final resting place. Why do I do this? If my wife were ask why I bother to keep them I would likely respond that guns in their original box, even if used, sell for a higher price and that she would thank me if we ever go to sell them. But to be honest these boxes will never be used again. Any gun I own that ever travels has a hard case or carrier or a holster or a range bag, etc... I have a strict policy of "you buy guns, not sell guns." If I get bored with a gun or I decided I don't like it, it gets oiled and vacuum sealed and then stashed or cached somewhere. If i had a gun I deemed to be so unsafe that I would never fire it even in a time of need I would not feel right selling it. No... I have a pile of card board boxes in my attic because when I was young and impressionable someone said "keep the boxes that your guns come in." and I have been doing it ever since. On to the pile it went.

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I do the same thing. Mostly with guns that don`t come in a hard case however. Not really because it raises the value but because if I have to send it out for work to be done to it. Now that I think of it I would probably just put it in a hard case anyways. Some I do throw out though. Like the CZ Scorpion pistol I got a few months back, they put so much packing grease in/on that thing the box was soaked through. Burned it. The Scorpion in just a cardboard box was $580 and in the hardcase it was like $750 or so, I think it came with some extra crap I didn't want anyways and the price was just an insane difference and It is just a truck gun I have been modding out. My nice guns stay in the hardcase well oiled and in a safe with humidity control however.