Anybody else collect anything cool

[Tony gilbert]

I collect fishing reels and I inherited my grandfathers plates from the b&o rr

 

[firedawg60]

My son is in high school and is a huge train buff, so we help him collect railroadiana of all kinds.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

I collect muzzleloaders… i know, not cool.

 

[CatamountRob]

I don’t have enough of anything to really be considered a collector but I’ve got some odd and ends of Newton Arms Co. stuff. A couple rifles, some catalogs, bullets, ammunition and Newton reloading tools.

 

[Shotgunblasts]

Kenton cast iron cap guns.(.22 signal pistols)

 

[Tony gilbert]

Kenton cast iron cap guns.(.22 signal pistols)View attachment 33343

Do they shoot?

 

[1874sharpsshooter]

I collect muzzleloaders… i know, not cool.

I use to collect muzzleloaders . Still have about half of my collection . Interested in about 50+ front stuffers. Make you a heck of a deal. Throw in 15 pounds BH free

 

[Shotgunblasts]

Do they shoot?

Yes .22 acorn or 6mm flobert.

 

[Shorty]

If MM is not i am, through me a pm.

 

[deermanok]

I seem to collect pocket and straight blade knifes. One pocket knife is an old cub scout from the 60's and I also have a Boy Scout straight blade knife and leather sheath also from about the 1960's.
My prized knife is a K-Bar that my late brother Joe carried in Vietnam while with the US Army Special Forces.

 

[rangerod]

I collect muzzleloaders… i know, not cool.

Especially cool

 

[Rodderbeck]

I collect cub cadet and wheel horse garden tractors...

 

[bronko220002]

I use to collect T/C Hawken rifles. At one time I had a bunch even some special ones like the Cougar and the Silver Elite. A lot of them were kept on display so I thought if I wasn't going to use them I went and sold them. I still have a couple but the only thing original on them are the stocks. They all have custom, GM or Rice barrels on them.
Now I'm on two kicks. I started collecting Win 94s and also various 22LRs. As far as the 22s go I have a couple high end rifles and a handful of so so ones like old Rem and Win single shots.

 

[fishhawk2700]

I collect artwork of Great Lakes artist Jim Clary. Had to stop buying, ran out of wall space. Here's a few examples.

 

[GUN NUT]

Knives and Guns

 

[Slingingslugs]

Deer antlers

 

[anonymouscowherd]

I've got a few pieces of old Porsche memorabilia and 356 related sales literature, including the original receipt, etc from when Dad bought my 356 new in '65.

Grandma on mom's side was secretary to the GM of the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles. We've got the proverbial metric shitload of Olympic related stuff, from a set of Gold/Silver/Bronze medals to one of the flags flown when the US won an event, to the silver plate used to make the official Ambassador invitations, etc. When the '84 games returned to LA grandma was heavily involved in coordinating the volunteer effort, so yet another metric shitload of Olympic stuff from those games was acquired, including the last torch in the relay run that was used to light the actual Olympic torch, and some country specific pins, etc that were to have been given to the USSR teams but they boycotted....

 

[Jitterbug]

I’ve started collecting reading glasses, and aches and pains.

I haven’t specialized yet, so far my collection is pretty broad-based!

 

[sheriffjohn]

Friends and enemies. The older I get, the smaller both caches become.
One I can count on ten fingers. Both are now deducted in the obituary page.

 

[Squeeze]

This one made me think, I never considered myself a collector of anything, But I do own a collection amount of several things.
Guns, especially muzzleloaders first came to mind, and I probably own over 100 poles and reels. everything from lightweight but mostly big ocean type anchor winch size. I probably own 4-5 full sets of cast iron cookware. Canning supplies.. (probably most of wich are inherited hodge podge, many likely collector items that I just use) Lures, Milwaukee battery tools are some of the first to come to mind. I even have a woodshop, full of tools, many of which are older than me (you just cant beat those old cast iron tools) bandsaw, table saw, drill press.. about the only things that wear are bearings and electric switches/motors. I have some newer more portable matches, but none can match the power or longevity of the old stuff