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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