Dilema - sell gun to buy first HD

[dcmidnight]

Dilema I am currently facing. Shopping around for my first HD and I (cough cough - wife) would like to keep it very reasonable, maybe a used Sportster or Dyna of which there are some good options in the area. Reason - to be sure that I am really into it and get good use out of it before upgrading a year or two down the road. OK, fair enough.

One of my options is to sell my skeet/trap gun to pay for @ half the cost and get a bike now vs waiting a few months until I could work it into the budget - looking to pay cash either way. I have a gorgeous Beretta 12ga that I used for skeet and trap last Fall and Winter that frankly I just dont use in the spring/summer. When its nice out I just find myself doing a million things outside other than wanting to hold an 8lb gun throwing a case of shells downrange in the sun for three or four hours. Half of me wants to hold onto it and just wait it out and wait the few months while the other half knows I probably wont use it much before October or November anyway.

Anyway, has anyone done this and not regretted it or done this and *really* regretted it?

[DBotkin]

Sell one toy to finance another? Sacrilege. Whatever happened to having your cake and eating it, too?

Yeah, I know, I'm a real helpful guy.

[BAGN1T]

I would say hang onto it...you'll miss it next time you get the trap itch. wait on the Harley...who knows...a really good deal might come along and you'll be able to get it sooner than you think...

[Strick28]

Keep the gun. You'll wish later that you had it. I sold my Beretta BL4 bird gun several years ago because I was not using it anymore and I got what i wanted for it. Guess what, hind sight is 20/20. Save your cash and then get the bike. Time flies it will go by in no time...

[kevsett]

Keeping the shotgun sounds good to me too. If it was a typical 870 or 500 then I'd say whatever (course the money you would get for selling one of these wouldn't go toward 50% of a HD) but a shotgun of this quality may be harder to replace than you think; especially if Osama becomes the POTUS with a leftist, socialist Congress.

[BAGN1T]

do you have a motorcycle now? I sold my Honda to help finance my first Harley...something to think about if you already have one

[Bird Dog]

I would never sell a gun for a motorcycle. The gun is too difficult to replace. Used inexpensive motorcycles are everywhere.

Keep the gun.

Find a motorcycle you can afford to pay cash for.

Look at all brands.

Enyoy the ride.

You either like to ride motorcycles or you don't. The brand of bike between you legs has nothing to do with it.

It's no fun having something you can't afford just so you can say you have it.

[MadCity]

Originally posted by kevsett
... a shotgun of this quality may be harder to replace than you think; especially if Osama becomes the POTUS with a leftist, socialist Congress.

Congress ban shotguns? Yeah right, that's gonna happen — when pigs fly. Hang on to the Beretta anyway, though. I've got a Benelli that I'll never let go. If you really want that Harley, you will find a way.

P.S. That's a 1914 L.C. Smith in the avatar.

[Bird Dog]

I just sold my Beretta for $9 less than I paid for it in 2002. Fired thousands of rounds with it so it didn't owe me a thing.

Now I shoot my Benelli all the time. I'm keeping that one.

With the Benelli if it flys it dies.

[kevsett]

All I'm saying is that if the gun grabbing socialists had it their way even hunting firearms would be gone. Getting such a ban passed is one thing and getting it enforced is even another. But I still don't trust them and their full blown agendas.

Originally Posted by MadCity

Congress ban shotguns? Yeah right, that's gonna happen — when pigs fly. Hang on to the Beretta anyway, though. I've got a Benelli that I'll never let go. If you really want that Harley, you will find a way.

P.S. That's a 1914 L.C. Smith in the avatar.

[MadCity]

Originally posted by kevsett
All I'm saying is that if the gun grabbing socialists had it their way even hunting firearms would be gone. Getting such a ban passed is one thing and getting it enforced is even another. But I still don't trust them and their full blown agendas.

I'm not sure where you're going with that whole "socialist" thing. But, in all of the gun control discussions I've followed in the past many years, the targets have always been handguns and semiautomatic rifles. Hey, didn't everybody's grandpa have a shotgun? They'll never go away. Neither will the other guns, IMO, but shotguns are the untouchable icon of American gun ownership.

[kevsett]

I'm as optimistic as you that shotguns/rifles are untouchable (at least for now) but not as optimistic that the true goal is not a total gun ban.

Originally Posted by MadCity

I'm not sure where you're going with that whole "socialist" thing. But, in all of the gun control discussions I've followed in the past many years, the targets have always been handguns and semiautomatic rifles. Hey, didn't everybody's grandpa have a shotgun? They'll never go away. Neither will the other guns, IMO, but shotguns are the untouchable icon of American gun ownership.

[chuckfw]

The same liberal mentality that can take my SOCOM, H&K, ARs, etc. can take your shotgun. I like the NRA approach, look out for each others rights, yours may be up next.

[DBotkin]

Even if they don't try to ban your shotgun outright, look for a push to make it a criminal offense to keep it in your house without having it disassembled or at the very least unloaded, with a trigger lock in place and in a safe. See DC V. Heller...