Posted: 1/19/2006 2:10:50 PM EDT
| My new toy got to the Georgia dealer last friday. I got the paper work from him at the beginning of the week. Sign off took one day. Sent it off today. Now for the second leg of the journey. I asked the dealer how it looked. He had no idea said the factory seal was still on the box. How can someone keep a gun since before 86 and never open it. More than I could do. Guess I will see if the move helped on the time line. |
I'll bet they bought a bunch and just stashed 'em away some place safe. How much did it cost in '86 versus what you paid for it? "Hmmm, I think I'll buy a stack of these and see what the value does in 20 years."  I'm guessing you bought an M16. I don't know what the prices are or were, but I'm guessing it's somewhere in the neighborhood of this... $500 in 86? $15k in 06? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (as if I had to say that). If you'd bought GE stock you'd have tripled your money. Looks like it has split four times. I presume the prices in the chart are split-adjusted. How many other investments grow by a factor of 30 in 20 years. Wish I'd been a gun nut in '86. Don't think I could have afforded more than one or two in E4 pay. |
| Don't think I have, but I'd like to. Are we ever gonna do a group shoot again? Now that I have an EBR, I want to go hang out w/ my brothers and sisters. Hope to get time off from Mrs. Birdbarian and the little barbarians to do the low light shooting class. I was bummed I could not attend the last time he did the defensive pistol class. |
Start a shoot thread, anyone can. Try to pick a date that is not too hot, not too cold, not too rainy, at a range with no range nazis, rambo rangers, and what else, oh yeah, a nearby hOOters! Thats all. Simple. Is Charlie Elliott really THAT bad? Come on. FOP is great too! There has got to be a happy medium somewhere! ByteTheBullet (-: |