If you dropped dead today what would happen to your babies?

I don't have anything anyone would want anyway, so I'll just have Connie give them to Skunk and Eric the Trouble Maker...

OR, she could take them to the Phoenix Gun Show for offers, it won't matter to me as I'll be dead.
 
Good topic. I need to address this for myself, not only with my collection of knives but also all my firearms, fly reels, watches ect ect.....while its never come up i think my wife would be shocked if she knew what I have in knives and guns.
 
Maybe Jerry could have a "garthisgoneganzaa". Atleast that way they would go to someone who would love them like I do.

Garth
 
David Brown said:
Very good topic,

His is some food for thought;

This last year a guy I met sent me a text asking what some Busse's are worth since he was not really into them and did not know.
He just picked up a few at the local Gun show.

Turns out a guy at a gun show here in Utah had a table full of Busse and kin knives (about 40 or 50) and some where higher end ones.

The guy I know thought he had the info but could not find it at the time.

He also said the guy was not the owner but a friend of the widow of the guy who used to own the knives and was helping out by selling them.

The troubling thing was they were way way under valued.

Like;

3000.00 worth of knives at current value

For 1000.00 or so

the guy selling and the guy buying did not know any better so no foul there .

I did some research to try and help out the widow before any more were sold so cheap and she did not get what they were worth .

Lots of research and a few days later I found out it was a Blade forum member (no need to name names) who passed last year.

the widow even said she contacted a few forum folks to help per her late husbands instructions (not Busse forum folks) but in 4 months not one person got back to her.

So just leaving to have unspecific forum folks help is not the way to go, make sure you have a friend or contact to help out, someone you trust to do the right thing.

The guy selling the knives, through the widow I finally got a hold of a couple days too late.
He said he did research and found out what most of them were sold for new and just went 40 or 50% of that.

Says he sold most of them 30 or so knives to one guy all at once.

Lesson I learned from this is; as I make a sheath/holster with/for my knives/guns, I am putting a tag on them with what it is (name of the knife/gun) and what the value is at that time.
If they change a bunch I will up date them.

I also have a few friends that I trust that will also Help Nancy out And I am sure Brigham will help too.

A spread sheet is a nice back up but a tangible tag I find will help out when the time comes.

Grim subject but one we do have to look at.

Hope that helps.

David
Click to expand...

This is sad story. Realistically the more planning and communication that can be had near the end the better. Even if we don't keep asset spread sheets for family to go through, a good contact list, with notes on who can help with what, is a good idea.

Less realistically, I'm envisioning floating out on a funeral pyre with my lovely old, beat to hell, CGFBM on my chest!
 
nemesis said:
My brother and fiance are the only people who have any idea what they are worth but this makes me think I should make some type of arrangements for them and my firearms
Click to expand...

Don't mean to hijack, but what is the best way to do this?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top