9422's Shoot em or Save em?

[rsmith0399]

I have two Winchester model 9422's. One is an XTR made in 87 and has maybe 4 very small dings in the wood and a very small scratch on the receiver. The other is a pistol grip version, made in 98, with a longer barrel that has no dings or scratches.

I would like to shoot one or both of them but I am concerned about the value if I shoot them.

Which one would be worth more in the future? And will shooting them affect the value?

[Hank Dodge]

I've got both a 9422 and a 9422M. They are great rifles that I love to shoot. I bought them both used, but they are in really nice shape. I plan to continue shooting them both. I try not to beat up my guns and generally take good care of them. If I were in your shoes with wanting to "save" one, I guess that I'd box up the one in better condition and shoot the other.

[iceman]

I have a 9422 legacy that I shoot and carry around, that what it was made for. If I was in your posistion I guess I would hide the better one away and have at it with the other. I like the way mine shoots too much to just look at it. If I found another one at a good price I might be tempted to buy it and store the other.

[Lastmohecken]

Shooting a gun, espacally a lot, always affects the value, some more then others. Abuse, rust, hard use, dents in the wood, etc hurt it a lot more.

You have got to ask yourself, did you buy the gun for an investment or did you buy it, to enjoy shooting it.

I personally don't buy guns for investments, I do buy expensive guns, because I like a fine gun, but I enjoy shooting and hunting a lot more, when I am carrying/shooting a fine rifle or shotgun, life is too shot to hunt with cheap junk, and save the nice guns for investments.

Besides, most guns, do not make good investments, because they are not often very liquid. Oh sure you can always sell a gun fast, but usually not at the price you want. It often takes the paitence of Joab to get you money's worth out of one. You can't just take it to a dealer and sell it, because your guns are going to get discounted big time, by the dealer, trying to make a profit. The dealer wants to make his investment going in, not waiting on time to gain value.

Of course, since you have two, I might pick one to shoot and enjoy and put the other back for the future, maybe to give to a relative later on, etc.

[J Miller]

Do you have the boxes, hang tags, paperwork, owners manual, internal wrapping paper if there was some?
Are both guns UNfired and absolutely mint?

If the answer to either question is no, shoot 'em. If the answer is yes, give 'em to and I'll shoot 'em if you can't.

I'm not a collector and I look at things way different than they do.
These guns were made to be used not stuck away in a collectors safe to rot.

Besides what 's the fun in having something you can't use?

I have a collection fountain pens. Some worth hundreds of dollars. I use them when I get the urge. Carefully but they get used. If I couldn't use them, I wouldn't have them.

I'm done now.

Joe

Joe

[rjohns94]

shoot em

[Terry Murbach]

WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU SAVE 'EM FOR , YOUR WIFE'S SECOND HUSBAND ?? YOU DO NOT THINK FOR A MOMENT YOUR KIDS WILL KEEP AND CHERISH 'EM DO YOU ??
AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN !!!
IF THE WINCHESTER COMPANY MANAGED TO INSTALL A RIFLED BARREL AND FIRING PINS ON BOTH YOU CAN PRETTY WELL TAKE IT TO THE BANK, BOTH WERE MEANT TO BE SHOT.
FREQUENTLY !!

[AJMD429]

Unless a gun was manufactured specifically as a wall-hanger, I take it afield and SHOOT it.

I think it is an INSULT to the designer and manufacturer of a firearm to keep it in 'unfired' or 'NIB' condition its whole life. Fine for a time if you're into 'investment' in firearms, but after a bit, you need to sell it, make your money off your 'investment', and let someone else SHOOT it.

How would you like to be a gun, designed and built for a specific function, but because someone 'bought' you and thought you were 'collectable', you just got locked up in some safe and gotten out every year or so and gawked at - "Wow, those Model 9422's were really great guns...", "My grandpa let me shoot his when I was a kid, and I'll always remember that..." - now carefully silicone-spray it, wrap it up, and tuck it away so in another year you can repeat the same ritual.

If you're into that 'Save em' nonsense, just get a picture, or a resin-replica of the real gun.

The REAL guns are made for REAL use - not as 'safe queens'...

[/rant mode OFF]

[Old Savage]

SHOOT 'EM!

[RIHMFIRE]

shoot em...and enjoy them....but take care of them....
they will never go down in value....
unless you use them as a boat paddle or something....

I shoot my trapper!

[Chuck 100 yd]

I agree, shoot them!!

[Pete44ru]

Welcome to the fire !

FWIW, This is my ca.1978 9422XTR-M, and I shoot/hunt it all the time.

There's NO scratches, nicks, dents or any other defects - and although I don't take any especial care, I DO transport all my rifles in padded cases, and refrain from beating either brush or animals with them.



Take yours out, and show them some love.

.

[Noah Zark]

Do you have the boxes, hang tags, paperwork, owners manual, internal wrapping paper if there was some?
Are both guns UNfired and absolutely mint?

If the answer to either question is no, shoot 'em.

Excellent advice, IMO.

Noah

[Borregos]

Do you have the boxes, hang tags, paperwork, owners manual, internal wrapping paper if there was some?
Are both guns UNfired and absolutely mint?

If the answer to either question is no, shoot 'em.

Excellent advice, IMO.

Noah

+1

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I must be losing my mind. I could have sworn that the ejection ports on 9422's were on the right hand side of the receiver.

[Swampman]

Sell 'em and buy a 39A.

[457121]

Sell 'em and buy a 39A.

keep them, shoot them, enjoy them, and buy a 39A. well, not a 39A with that goofy safety.

[DPris]

I've got a 16-incher that's one of my alltime favorite .22s.
I didn't buy it to be worth more or worth less someday. I bought it to be a gun, and guns were designed to be shot.

Once upon a time, I had the idea that I'd be doing kids & grandkids some pretty nice favors someday by passing on some pretty nice guns. Woke up one day & realized, one by one as I considered the current & prospective candidates for inheritors, that only one offspring is even mildly interested (and would have little understanding or appreciation for the difference between a Python and a Charter Arms), both in-laws are moderately interested (but again would not appreciate the difference between a Peacemaker Specialists Colt and a stock Ruger), and grandkids are only unknown maybes.
It made a difference in re-evaluating the inventory, and now I'm down to what I like for my own enjoyment & needs.

If I wanted to be investing in metals, it'd be gold, not guns.
Denis

[SJPrice]

I must be losing my mind. I could have sworn that the ejection ports on 9422's were on the right hand side of the receiver.

HOLY LEFTHANDER Batman. Those are rare left handed 9422's They were special manufacture for people like me who are in our right minds. Box them up immediately and send them to me.

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I must be losing my mind. I could have sworn that the ejection ports on 9422's were on the right hand side of the receiver.

HOLY LEFTHANDER Batman. Those are rare left handed 9422's They were special manufacture for people like me who are in our right minds. Box them up immediately and send them to me.

I think that photo has had a mirror operation performed on it. The slotted takedown screw is on the wrong side as well. Bizarre. Maybe it was a test of our sanity.

[salvo]

WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU SAVE 'EM FOR , YOUR WIFE'S SECOND HUSBAND ?? YOU DO NOT THINK FOR A MOMENT YOUR KIDS WILL KEEP AND CHERISH 'EM DO YOU ??
AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN !!!
IF THE WINCHESTER COMPANY MANAGED TO INSTALL A RIFLED BARREL AND FIRING PINS ON BOTH YOU CAN PRETTY WELL TAKE IT TO THE BANK, BOTH WERE MEANT TO BE SHOT.
FREQUENTLY !!

Terry's you sure have a way with words!
It always amazes me that nobody ever puts a value on the years of enjoyment you get from shooting nice leverguns, priceless.

[madman4570]

Shoot them,just take care of them.

[pokey]

shoot 'em.

[gamekeeper]

They are TOO good not to shoot.

[Nath]

I bought mine as an investment,



it regularly turns these into fuel for my car

Nath.

[Lawyer Daggit]

I did a lot of agonising over this. I was looking for a 17 HMR to use and stumbled on a 9417. I also have a 9422M that I have used since my 18th birthday (I'm now 52).

One of my deer rifles is a 94 carbine manufactured in 1963- just before Winchester bastardised the line and is in excellent condition. It is now collectable, but I use it.

I do not particularly like collections that are not used. I say use them, but care for them.

[Blaine]

Shoot them.........I love my 39s, but the Winnies are so much smooooooother.....

[willygene]

I would shoot them and take good care of them because if this country and our laws keep going the way they are there won't be any collectors value on any guns in the future just the value of their use and ability to obtain them and ammunition for them for self preservation and to feed your family.

[rhead]

You mean that you bought them without knowing if they will work or not?