It's funny how time flies sometimes.........

[curator]

Soon, some old coot will be fondling his Glock or XD with white gloves and reminiscing with his friends about his 100 year old pistols and carbines. Just think, the AR is almost halfway there.

As a former firearms curator, I don't believe anyone will be fondling a Glock or XD in 100 years since it is doubtful the polymers used in their manufacturer will maintain their integrity that long. It may be possible to preserve our modern "plastic guns" in a climatically controlled inert atmosphere with nitrogen scrubbers. For most folks, they will crack and pieces break off as they become brittle with age and exposure. I love iron, steel, brass and walnut. Probably half of my "working collection" is 100+ years old. One of my youth small bore shooting team was astounded when he learned that the BSA Martini rifle he has shot a near-perfect 299 with was 104 years old when he did it.

[Multigunner]

Hardcast 416 Taylor
"Every now and again I`ll get my 1884 Trap Door rifle with ramrod bayonet, that is in very good condition, out for a look over and maybe a shot or so to drive the spiders out of the bore. I actually start to giggle at the stupid offers I get to sell it.Robert "

About 40 years ago a co worker was given one of a pair of Trap Door Springfields in return for cleaning both up. The old guy he got it from had bought both rifles for $1.50 each back in the Depression.

[lrdg]

I got from my grandfather a 1842 IN Johnson Pistol. A family gun and 175 years old!

[jimb16]

My old .36 buggy rifle still goes out for squirrel hunts from time to time. Keeps telling me it isn't time to retire yet. BTW the rifle was built no later than 1845, exact year unknown.

[BAGTIC]

Time does NOT fly. Time flees.

[Multigunner]

"Time is the fire in which we burn"

[Multigunner]

"
Each minute bursts in the burning room,
The great globe reels in the solar fire,
Spinning the trivial and unique away.
(How all things flash! How all things flare!)
What am I now that I was then?
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. "


Delmore Schwartz