Good points, I'd probably keep the gun for 20 years selling it in retirement when I'm 70 or so, times on my side and most Parker's do nothing but go up in value, the question is, is $6000 the right price today, to which I believe the seller is probably $1000 high for the guns actual value. My take on guns as investments is: if you WANT it-and have the money to buy it, don't bother to justify that, just buy it.
All the ones where it worked out were bought at rock bottom prices, usually from somebody who didn't know or even care what they were worth. Most I have followed were great GUNS, but bad investments, when it came to actually trying to get the investment back, let alone make money on it. Six grand seems high for an investment to me-isn't the whole point of an investment to buy low and sell high? And the reworked stock and barrels hurt resale typically.īut don't mind me-I'm typically very skeptical about guns as investments.