Who the &&$*# was Wes Adams??!!??

[gregintenn]

This is the SECOND aucion I've seen this year that comprised guns from his collection. The first was equally amazing.

http://jamesdjulia.com/auctions/div_catalog_327.asp?pageREQ=1

[buck1032]

I have no idea who that guy was, but WOW! Just WOW!!!!

[Murgatroy]

Wow.

[sigmtnman]

http://mvprogress.com/2011/02/23/obituary-wes-adams/

[gjohnsoniv]

That is one fine collection.

[TripleDigitRide]

He was a big time developer in Vegas. I once read that he collected all those firearms in a span of just 10 years or so.

[gregintenn]

He had great taste and a poop load of money.

[Guest rebeldrummer]

Stunning collection.....I am amazed

[TN Outlaw]

i need to go change my pants be right back.......... WOW!!!!!!!

[JohnC]

That is a fricken awesome collection!

[Dolomite_supafly]

He is missing something he probably longed after his entire life. A Colt Walker revolver. There is a reproduction at the bottom but a real one would be more than any single gun in this collection.

I would hope for historical reasons they are takings extensive pictures and cataloging every single firearm. The amount of information to be gleened from this collection is amazing.

Without a doubt I would like to go to the auction just to see some of these pices in person. As a kid I dreamed of having most of the guns in this collection.

Dolomite

[peejman]

That's a staggering collection. I can't imagine how long it would take to simply go through and catalog all those for auction. I hope some of them end up in museums where they belong.

[JAB]

That's a staggering collection. I can't imagine how long it would take to simply go through and catalog all those for auction. I hope some of them end up in museums where they belong.

I go back and forth on the idea of 'belong in a museum.' On the one hand, that is definitely the best way for the greatest number of people to have the experience of seeing them and is a good way to preserve them for the future. On the other hand, as long as they are in working order, firearms were meant to shoot, not sit behind glass to be stared at.

[gregintenn]

I go back and forth on the idea of 'belong in a museum.' On the one hand, that is definitely the best way for the greatest number of people to have the experience of seeing them and is a good way to preserve them for the future. On the other hand, as long as they are in working order, firearms were meant to shoot, not sit behind glass to be stared at.

Most of these shouldn't be fired in my opinion. They are irreplaceable American history and should be preserved.

[TMF]

For the age and condition these firearms are in, they have no place being fired. Some of these may be the last of their kind in such good condition.

[gjohnsoniv]

No point in firing what can't be replaced. Those pieces are from a time when people cared about their work and it was an art, not part of a machining process.

[peejman]

I go back and forth on the idea of 'belong in a museum.' On the one hand, that is definitely the best way for the greatest number of people to have the experience of seeing them and is a good way to preserve them for the future. On the other hand, as long as they are in working order, firearms were meant to shoot, not sit behind glass to be stared at.

I agree completely. Guns are meant to be shot, cars are meant to be driven. However, as the others have said some of these are (virtually) one-of-a-kind and irreplaceable.

[Lumber_Jack]

If a buyer wants to place one of his pieces in a museum I think it's great. Let's face it, shooting guns especially antiques will wear on them, and some are just too valuable to risk. If your talking WWI 1911, sure I'd shoot it some, some of those I'd have no problem putting up for preservations sake.

[Murgatroy]

Those belong in a museum!

I spent a good part of last night reading the history of some of those guns. Wow.

One is a 7th Cav Custer era issue. With the broken ejector in a museum. The rest of the revolver is there. I can't imagine the amount of history and pride that it would be to buy that pistol, and return it to the ejector in the museum.

There are guns there from the Lincoln County War, verified pistols from the Civil War and the era before and after, with the research to back them up. I can't imagine a monetary value on the history and presence of that collection. If this is the second auction, I can only imagine what else was in the first auction.

[gregintenn]

I believe these are some that were sold in the spring.

http://jamesdjulia.com/auctions/div_catalog_320_sh.asp

[Guest HvyMtl]

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Why do I wish someone would buy them all and put them in a hands on museum setting, for all to see? The history. The engineering. The beauty.

[bajabuc]

Think of all the planes, ships, tanks and other World War One and Two equipment that went to the smelter.

[Caster]

THis thread is proof positive that if/when I win the lottery I will be hated and shunned by the gun community. I'd buy guns from auctions like this and I would shoot every dang one of them. I might go as far as handloading light loads and taking GREAT care with cleaning, lubrication and storage but be darned if I wouldn't shoot them!

[Superman]

I wouldnt own a gun and not shoot it.

[gregintenn]

I wouldnt own a gun and not shoot it.

I always said that, but alas, now i own some I've not shot....and probably won't.