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    Hi what makes a air rifle collectable is there a download list on the forum as i would believe there must be quite a few veibals involved.
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    Generally I'd suggest that ANY airgun out of production is potentially collectable.
    Quite a lot of people collect to a theme and it could be by manufacturer, by a period, by country, by style or just a collection of guns they wanted, but couldn't afford at the time.
    Even some current guns are collectable, for example the Umarex SAA's and Legends series of guns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harvey_s View Post
    Generally I'd suggest that ANY airgun out of production is potentially collectable.
    Quite a lot of people collect to a theme and it could be by manufacturer, by a period, by country, by style or just a collection of guns they wanted, but couldn't afford at the time.
    Even some current guns are collectable, for example the Umarex SAA's and Legends series of guns.
    Thanks for your reply yes I see now I was thinking prota or quirky air rifles like this new Gamo 10 shot Brake Barrel.
    So will have have another think on your information you have supplied
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zero58 View Post
    Thanks for your reply yes I see now I was thinking prota or quirky air rifles like this new Gamo 10 shot Brake Barrel.
    So will have have another think on your information you have supplied
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    If in a few years the Gamo becomes a example of a daft idea that never caught on and they regularly broke in use AND you have a boxed minter, never been fired in your collection....Hell, it could worth a tenner more than you paid for it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zero58 View Post
    Hi what makes a air rifle collectable is there a download list on the forum as i would believe there must be quite a few veibals involved.
    Thanks from Toady
    I've been compiling a list for a couple of years now and it seems to be getting longer and longer.
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    Any gun that someone wishes to own for purposes other than shooting it or making an immediate profit...the human desire to collect is intriguing in itself and will drive otherwise sane, balanced well adjusted people to run up debt, break the law and become a recluse.

    Airguns are nothing compared with some secret hobbies I have been surprised to discover amongst acquaintances - Victorian pornography, unicorns, fossilized poo, bullet heads/musket balls that have passed through a human body, tanks, owl pellets and school text book graffiti being the less worrying ones!

    Now I'm off to fit another couple of cabinets to the wall
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    I've been compiling a list for a couple of years now and it seems to be getting longer and longer.

    If it is in here, it is collectable

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    My feeling is if anyone wants it then its 'collectable' if no one wants it

    Try talking them into want it rather than throwing it away

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    Quote Originally Posted by harvey_s View Post
    If in a few years the Gamo becomes a example of a daft idea that never caught on and they regularly broke in use AND you have a boxed minter, never been fired in your collection....Hell, it could worth a tenner more than you paid for it!
    Great I've got one of those.
    And a Beeman Dual (2 barrels that go off together)
    They make these oddities for me.

    They laughed at me when I bought them.
    But in a few years.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by gingernut View Post
    Great I've got one of those.
    And a Beeman Dual (2 barrels that go off together)
    They make these oddities for me.

    They laughed at me when I bought them.
    But in a few years.......
    Yeah! our kids will chuck it in the bin with the rest of our stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    I've been compiling a list for a couple of years now and it seems to be getting longer and longer.
    I'm very disappointed that you don't have BSA Mercury or Challengers listed on your ever growing list.

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    Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in

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    In had a Johnny 7 as a kid, I was the envy of all my mates but I think it went in the bin when it got broken, They sell for a ridiculous amount now!! (Very collectable apparently!)

    I also saved up when I was 14 and bought an old Lambretta TV200 (It cost me £30), Pretty sure my dad scrapped it when I got wed at 19yo and left home My brother who paints bikes/scooters and anytrhing else that will take paint told me that even a scrapper would realise £5,000 these days!!

    On a brighter not, I just bought another walnut HW35 Luxus stock- Like flippin' busses, You wait ages then two come along!!

    Just have to hope the postie doesn't break it now


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    From now on, air rifles becoming collectable is purely academic. As we speak Scottish policemen are probably being told not to ascribe crime numbers to airgun confiscations/incidents unless absolutely necessary, so that in a year or so it can be "shown" that airgun licensing has worked. Then it will move South of the border. Will "collecting" be seen as good reason? Will having 83 HW35s, "all different" be seen as reasonable?
    You might think I'm being overly sceptical, but my local force employed similar tactics to "prove" that the introduction of PCSOs had had a "marked effect" on low level crime.
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    My definition of collectable is something that people want to own more for the sake of of owning it, rather than using it.

    Me, if I can't shoot it (apart from a couple of things I bought needing a rebuild), I am not interested. I have looked at mint, boxed, unfired guns, and I can see the appeal, but not enough to spend money on a gun I would not shoot. On the other hand, I have bought less than perfect examples of guns because I actively wanted to experience how they handled and shot.

    So I'm a shooter who collects things to shoot. Others are collectors who collect things to collect, and sometimes shoot them.

    Of course, there is a grey area. Most collectors shoot their stuff occasionally. Most of us who shoot our collections still have items in them that aren't great to shoot, but are nice because they have particular features or provenance that make them attractive to us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    I'm very disappointed that you don't have BSA Mercury or Challengers listed on your ever growing list.

    Pete
    Don't be disappointed, Pete - supply some pics and I'll be happy to post them.
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