I was just reading an item in the arrow classifieds ... grandfather died and left stuff ...
Have you ever thought about what you are going to do with all your " ARCHERY STUFF " when you die.
While I have a son in law and a grandson I have no one who would really appreciate receiving the life time of STUFF that I treasure related to traditional archery .... I know all my hunting buddies would love it, but they are old too.
What are your plans ??
When I Die I told My wife to burn me with My Bow I built... everything else can be sold or given away
It's all coming with me into my burial mound, along with my concubines, chariot & servants.
I will pm you my address and you can have all your stuff sent to me. I would appreciate ALL of it. :bigsmyl: :goldtooth:
I'll be dead so I will not do anything with it or care at that point. Hope the kids are old enough, like it and use it. After that I don't care. It is just stuff. Stuff takes up time, $, and space. I just hope the wife doesn't garage sale it too cheap. Maybe I better start pricing stuff just in case.
QuoteOriginally posted by xtrema312:
I'll be dead so I will not do anything with it or care at that point. Hope the kids are old enough, like it and use it. After that I don't care. It is just stuff. Stuff takes up time, $, and space. I just hope the wife doesn't garage sale it too cheap. Maybe I better start pricing stuff just in case.
Yep, what he said!
QuoteOriginally posted by robtattoo:
It's all coming with me into my burial mound, along with my concubines, chariot & servants.
:thumbsup:
I haven't thought about and most likely won't. I seriously doubt I'll care after I'm gone. I do hope I can witness what happens to it though... just for grins and giggles..lol
The only thing that I've thought about is organ donation and I think I'd like to donate my beard.
God bless,Mudd
Aside from lol at Rob's post, I hope that I find someone who I can pass it on to. If not and my wife is still alive, she can go to my neighbor who made my bow and quiver to price it out.
I going to sell it on Epray... And give all the money to Jesus.
I had a great uncle who had no kids. He was a real outdoorsman. He had tons of guns, bamboo flyrods, wooden tackle boxes full of beautifull old wooden Heddon plugs w/ glass eyes etc. etc. That stuff would be worth a fortune today and was given away after his death to his friends kids etc. who probably had no idea what they were getting. I was too young to get any of the stuff then. Its sad to think about. I hope my kids are old enough to apreciate some of my stuff and get a fair price for anything they dont want to keep. How cool would it be to have one of the shoddy bows I build to be in a grandkids hands slinging arrows someday?!?!?!?
QuoteOriginally posted by robtattoo:
It's all coming with me into my burial mound, along with my concubines, chariot & servants.
Your mound will look like the landfill of a medium sized city! :p
Seriously, I have had some discussion with my wife about what I think I would like. Not sure exactly how it could work out, but I'd like to see my "stuff" sold somehow through ads, auction, or whatever, and the proceeds go to St.Jude or similar charity. I think it would be cool to leave one last donation.
Hope my wife doesn't sell it for what I told her I paid for it! LOL Good question!
I will die with most of it in my grasp on a mountain somewhere. I figure the wolves that eat my decrepid hind in will pee on my bow as a last little send off.
Hopefully my kids and their kids are able to enjoy some of it, but just like my body I plan on wearing it all out before I am done with it...
When the anthropologists dig up Rob, they'll know that a great and might war chief must have been laid to rest, :smileystooges:
Rob, now that was funny.
Rob, I like the way you think! Give me a good 'ol heathen send off anytime.
For my archery stuff my girlfriend knows which of my friends will help her dispose of it and get good prices for it. For my firearm stuff she'll go to a different friend.
Guy
If I'm not on some mountain somewhere...I hope my wife either gets a good price for my kit here or my nephew will get it. That's how the will reads anyway.
My nephew is about 11 right now. He's been eyeing me while I shoot. I remember him when he was seven building his own stick bow at hunting camp and shooting it LEFT HANDED like his Uncle Toby. Cracked us up. If he's into it when I go and strong enough to shoot my bows he's welcome to it.
i have thought about that before and i know i would give evryting i have to anyone who could use it.
I have a number of signed archery books and a few early pieces of early Australian archery memorabilia, I have given instaruction for them to go to the Australian Archery Hall of Fame and museum if they want them of course.
I am sure tradgang will be around at the time, my family has first crack at it assuming my two daughters have any interest and my tradgang family second!
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I am sure my grand kids will divey it up.
Hopefully it will mean a bit more to them than to rush to fr**** with it for a few bucks.
Every time I see and add like that I want to grab that young pup by the throat and ask him if he really knows what he is doing.
Only thing I have left from my grandfather is an old garden hoe.. I feel connected to him and the family every time I use it. He's been gone for over 60 years.
QuoteOriginally posted by robtattoo:
It's all coming with me into my burial mound, along with my concubines, chariot & servants.
Well that was an idea to follow :biglaugh:
It's in my will, what the kids don't want one of my friends will get the rest. I know he will kept what he wants and will give it to someone that really needs it.
Ken, Ken, Ken, I'm way younger then you ;)
Elken,let me ease your worries send it all to me.
I have a bow that has "Dad" written on it. It was purchased alongside my fatehr and facilitated my fatehrs re entry into Traditional archery. It is my go to bow and will be passed to my kid. Everything else will probably be given away as donations, prizes and gifts.
Great thread. The only person in my life that would appreciate all my junk would be LoweBow. He's in my will to receive it all. I just hope he doesn't read this. If I end up pushing up daisy's prematurely have the police question him.
If I'm lucky I will die so far back in the woods on a hunt that noone will ever find me, then I wont have to worry about a burrial and all that jazz . . . the only problem is no self respecting husband would want that for their wife(I'm not a husband yet, but . . .) I am way to young to be thinkin about his stuff, but it is interesting to see what some of you guys say!
taking it with me LOL, I need to make a plan for my wife to try to sell it all or if she doesn't need the money to give it to my granddaughter the only one in the family that has any interest in archery. my 55-60# bows would be a little rough on her.
I have 4 sons and they will take a couple of bows each , My wife knows which is my favourite bow so she wants to keep that one. And I want a longbow and a dozen arrows going in the box with me to the crematorium. Just in case the hunting is good where ever I end up.
I guess I should give it all to my brother. After all, he's still waitin to see what bow I'm goin to give him to shoot this season. I can't decide if he's cheap or just smarter than me.
My will says all my "stuff" will be sold and the proceds given to my favorite charity. Frank
These two guys will get everything they need to set them up for the rest of their lives.
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I have a list of other youngsters who've I've come to know that if still shooting will get set-up for the rest of their careers too. ;)
David, if your looking to adopt a 41yr old man I am available...LOL
yes yes yes David .. aka Zwickeyman ... you are WAY younger than me and I know you really want my ACS ....
QuoteOriginally posted by Mudd:
The only thing that I've thought about is organ donation and I think I'd like to donate my beard.
If you DO decide to donate your beard I'd like to get on that list. I cannot grow anything that even resembles a beard and I'm almost 24. lol :biglaugh:
I knew this would eventually get weird...LOL Chris there are many forms of puberty,don't let the lack of facial hair get you discouraged. :laughing:
There aren't any left-eye dominant folks in my immediate line. I could see a bow or two making it to the mantle with both my children and the rest sold by my son to help out my wife, his mother. However, this isn't something I worry about. Once gone I'll be on to far bigger, better, and more Glorious things. I'm sure I won't know what happens because only Joy is experienced in Heaven and watching one of my recurves stood up in a corner or strung without a stringer "down here", wouldn't by joyous! Seriously, I love my bows but I have to be aware to be obedient and not practice idolatry.
SON: Dad, what are you going to do with all this stuff.
DAD: Thats going to be your problem.
Thats how our conversation went. I just hope I live long enough to hunt with my youngest grandson.
I'm goin to take my bow and one of them big ole single bevel Grizzly broadheads and shoot the devil in the ........
Interesting thread. As I can faintly see the "autumn" of my bowhunting career looming just over the next mountain, and because I have no children of my own, I too have had this thought cross my mind from time to time. Actually, I have no real concern over what becomes of the man made "stuff"- my bows, arrows, quivers, portable treestands, etc., etc. that's just STUFF. My greater concern is for the "stuff" that was (originally) created by God- my mounts. Not that I have any more mounts than the next guy, but I do have a LIFETIME of mounts hung here and there throughout our home.
I once read Denny Sturgis Jr. refer to the mounts in his "man cave" as "treasures", rather than "trophies". That description has always stuck with me. They are indeed "treasures" and I do hope that in my passing they will end up somewhere where they will be appreciated.
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: Ok, I'm laughing over this whole post now. Actually my oldest son is getting all my Stuff cause my youngest son has no interest in it.
Treasures is a good term. I have a 22 year old daughter that doesn't hunt at all, but she already has dibbs on my 66" shoulder mount bull moose and my wife can get several thousand dollars for the 61" shoulder mount. I'm not certain what they'll do with the other 50+ mounts? My wife does tease me and says it is part of her retirement fund! I'm sure they can start a small natural history museum if they want. Kids and grandkids will get all they want. I'm pretty sure I won't care too much where it goes. I'll be dead!
Indianabowman,
I recently had a discussion with my taxidermist regarding what he does to try to recoup his investment on the mounts that hunters occasionally balk at paying off once they are ready to be picked up (especially in our current Michigan economy). He informed me that, believe it or not, the abandoned mounts in his studio are most often sold to non-hunters looking to decorate their rustic cabins and rural Michigan get-aways. He said that often he is able to sell them for what he charges (retail) for his taxidermy services. If that's the case, with your 50+ mounts you must be looking EXTRA cute to your wife right about now. :)
Geez! I'm glad I won't be around to sort out, figure out, share, give, donate, and/or sell all that stuff! Whew!
Simple: I've instructed my wife to re-marry a right hander with a 27 3/4" draw who can pull my 60 lb bows without working up to it. And who doesn't complain about hand shock from Hill bows. She'll let you know when the time comes.
I'm leaving all my stuff to my family to do with it as they please. After all they are just material things and are meaningless to their former owner after death. I had a stark reminder of that today when I drove past the house of a young man who recently died, all his clothes were out for the garbage man.
Lord if my wife ever figured out all the money I've spend - I better be dead!! H
A customer brought in all of his father's hunting stuff for us to sell for him after his father passed away. The son never got into traditional archery, and it was really hard to sit there and put a price tag on all of his Dad's things. He had some very neat bows, old quivers, and all sorts of old and really cool broadheads. You could tell that traditional archery was a large part of his life. I cannot imagine going through my Dad's stuff when he is gone.
We have sold several bow collections for widows. That is always tough...
I killed a turkey out of the blind of a friend's father who had passed. It was a special turkey, even though I never knew the man who once owned the blind I was hunting out of.
Not a fun topic to talk about! What were you thinking elkken!?