Fire sale
This seller is selling guns for a friend who’s home was destroyed in a fire.
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WOW, WHAT A LOSS! The items are bringing good money for damaged goods? Wish them luck as that something I hope I never experience. If those were in safes, must have been one hot fire.
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What brand/model safe. That way i dont buy one. Must have been really hot for a long time if it was a good safe. Sorry for their losses, gotta be rough.
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That would be devastating.
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Sorry for this family's lose. Does anyone here believe any of these could be repaired by cleaning and replacing the wood that burned away? I suspect that the metal may have welded together by the heat and that only a few parts may be serviceable, What are your thoughts?
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Yes, I can't believe anything would be safe but that is just my opinion. I would not want them but maybe some people are bidding like friends of his or? to help the family out?
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Those look pretty good for going through a fire, probably because they were in a safe which saved them from the water damage. We had a house fire several years ago and none of mine survived, by the time I dug them out off the soaking wet rubble they looked like hunks of rusty junk that had been on the ocean floor for a few hundred years,
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I doubt there's a safe made, that would have saved those guns with the fire that went through there. When cars are completely burned and melted, and even concrete burned away on foundations, you would need a concrete vault. Some of those could be salvaged, but the cost to do it would exceed the cost of two good ones. Seeing more and more of this from the left coast states that burned. Sad to see.
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Fire Chief told me to save my money on a fire proof safe. If you dont get water on the safe in about 20 minutes forget it. It is a selling point to get your money, but fairly ineffective against the heat of a house fire.
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I thought ammo prices and loading supplies were out the roof.
Burnt firearms are sky high
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I don't see any of the arms worth $$$ With that much heat the metallurgy has to be really bad...I hope nobody tries to restore and shoot ANY of them...Sorry for his loss...BUT!!!
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I occasionally do appraisals for estate or insurance purposes.
Whenever I do one post fire I always push the customer to demand full replacement as the guns are always wrecked. Even if the look somewhat decent yet it is my belief the guns are no longer safe. Even if they are "safe" i feel the smaller springs and whatnot are no longer the proper spec to do their job.
This seller in my opinion is negligent for selling these to anyone but a scrap yard. We all see the new gun buyers now days that don't have alot of experience, I can see those types buying these not knowing that they could have very weak metal and hurting themselves.
The above is Just my opinion, he is honest about what he is doing so buyer beware I guess.
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Really sad all around. Best wishes for them.
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Those guns are toast.
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Interesting, how realtively useless the "fire" safe is.
Since homeowners ins only covers a small fraction of Gun value I keep a ryder for another 30K on mine. Its less than 400 a year for that coverage.
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Have you done the math?? If you put away $400.00 for 75 years you could self insure and save all that money. That's what Dave Ramsey would do.
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Gun safes are mostly to deter theft............not protect against fire. Unless BIG BUCKS are spent. My gun safes are on an exterior wall, and I hope that if there is ever a fire, that might offer some protection from the highest heat.
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I was given a pile of guns from a house fire few years ago.
Some of them still had some charred wood.
They will really rust fast. I had to oil them down good and wrap in oily rags for storing until I could inspect them further.
Restored some of them for myself. Had to replace all the springs and re-blue and re-stock. Made tire irons, drift punches, etc, out of some of the barrels.
I would not buy burned guns to restore.
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