Originally Posted by
Bill George
Or take to a gun shop and sell it, just a 22 caliber rifle something like I grew up with.
You seem to have missed the point that there is sentimental value here. IE, it's not that it's a super duper rifle, it's the fact that it was the OP's dad's when his dad was a kid.
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