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Accumulation of shooting related stuff

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Over the years I seem to have collected a lot of stuff related to shooting. I have kept about all the shooting magazines I have bought plus associated catalogues, brochures etc. I was in the loft before Christmas getting the tree down and looked round at all the things in there. "What shall we do with this?" "put it in the loft for now" Twenty years later whatever it was is still in the loft and never been looked at since the day it went up there. Looking round I see a lot of Sporting Gun magazines from the first issue from the 1970s to about five years ago when I stopped getting it as the newsagent I had it ordered with retired and closed the shop and I never bothered with it after that. There are a couple of plastic bags of Guns Review magazines from the 1960s and every issue from 1974 to when it ceased publication. There are about seventeen binders of Shooting Times magazines , twenty six issues to a binder, from 1972 to 1981. There is the full run of a defunct magazine called 'Shooting' if I remember right, that ran from the 1970s to the 1990s I think. Well, I have been told by my daughter to sort out my stuff, though she used a shorter word beginning with s and ending in t. So, what do I do with it all? There is not much monetary value in the stuff and I know she will chuck it all in a skip when I have gone. I will ask around the club to see if there is any interest in old magazines. I am reluctant to chuck it in the recycling but I am never likely to look at it again. Has anyone else got rid of old shooting memorabilia and how did you dispose of it?
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I am in the same place.

Years of Handloader, Target gun and its predecessor, hundreds of American magazines, reloading manuals etc etc which no one wants so I am working up the energy to bin then. I took a dozen or so magazines to a gun club of mine for people to read/take and was told to stop dumping my rubbish there!

I am currently destroying firearms and shotguns that I cannot shift and this is grieving me greatly.

Then there is the reloading equipment, a dozen presses, powder dispensers, scales etc etc.

I have 1200 moulds, 1/2 a dozen furnaces, they will no doubt be skip bound. Couldn't give my lead away so it went to the scrappy,

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Sporting Gun magazine issue number one 1977
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Yep me to can not get in the loft for stuff. The amount of reloading gear and casting stuff is scary.
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dromia wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:05 pm I am in the same place.

Years of Handloader, Target gun and its predecessor, hundreds of American magazines, reloading manuals etc etc which no one wants so I am working up the energy to bin then. I took a dozen or so magazines to a gun club of mine for people to read/take and was told to stop dumping my rubbish there!

I am currently destroying firearms and shotguns that I cannot shift and this is grieving me greatly.

Then there is the reloading equipment, a dozen presses, powder dispensers, scales etc etc.

I have 1200 moulds, 1/2 a dozen furnaces, they will no doubt be skip bound. Couldn't give my lead away so it went to the scrappy,

British shooting is knackered!
How are you trying to sell the guns which you are scrapping? Guntrader? Other platforms? Relying on passing traffic to your website? Plenty of people still buying stuff, handloading is quite big in my club, why not pro actively contact clubs etc with the list of stuff you want to sell?
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#6 Post by dromia »

My website has unfortunately become moribund as I am no longer able to update it due to its ever changing nature,

I have used GunTrader in the past with modest success, however it's cavalier attitude to security has made me leery and looking at how little its current iteration has listed it would seem I am not the only one. Gunstar has never been of any use for me and it is a despicable site to deal with.

I do advertise at local clubs on occasion with little result. I have offered guns for free to clubs again with no result.

Footfall has always been my main way of selling, but it has diminished due to most shooters wanting to get rid of guns not buy them. The lack of component availability has also reduced footfall and changed peoples attitudes to handloading, moving onto rimfire, reducing the number of calibres they load for and consequently having less guns.

The old, good condition, interesting collectable stuff still sells but getting such stock is increasingly harder so you are left with all the 10/22s, BSA's, sporting rifles, BP pistols and rifles (never a big market) and shotguns that aren't worth proofing for steel as they were never a big seller anyway. The live quarry lot inevitably seem to want new guns.

The fact is shooting is in decline due to numerous factors one of the main ones being here in the NE access to decent full bore ranges for greater then 100 yrd shooting. Also if you are a Durham certificate holder the getting a variation is problematical. The lead ban has put the final nail in the casting coffin.

People who are staying in shooting are changing their habits to rimfires and the odd pistol calibre rifle for indoor and up to 100 yrds ranges.

Shooters are seeing the final writing on the wall and are trying to downsize/off load kit before it is too late which leads to a flooded buyers market where all the potential buyers are the sellers.

Again a lot of my handloading stuff that I want shot of is more the high end quality kit like Redding, RCBS, Forster and the like when most people are looking for the cheaper end Lee stuff.

Postage is also a killer, try finding a reasonable cost, reliable way of sending say a cast 7 hole Redding turret press for instance, people now baulk at paying such prices.
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