[GlenJ]

Do those of you who own any like the Ruger 50th Anniv of the 44 Mag or any limited edition gun shoot them or keep them un-fired?

[TIMC]

I have a limited addition S&W 1911 and I do shoot it once in a while. I don't know why I bought it but I saw it and had to have it. One of my more accurate handguns too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/smith1911-1.jpg

[ArfinGreebly]

I have the 40th anniversary edition of the Ruger 10/22.

It was my first rimfire.

Yes I shoot it.

So do my kids.

[NateUSMC]

Unless it's been decommissioned or unsafe to shoot, it's a waste of a perfectly good firearm not to send some rounds downrange with it.

Hell, I'd probably carry one if fit the bill. :D

[loud-mouth shnook]

I'm on the fence about this one.
Depends on why it was bought, I reckon.
Obviously, if it's because she's a "limited edition collector's item", then heck no. OTH, if it was just because it was the only way to get a certain configuration that you considered to be the optimum, then yeah, blast away.

I, for instance, covet (badly) a 586 2". Not a common gun but perfect for what I want it for, IMHO. I'd definately be burning powder with it.

[Monkeybear]

I got a "Special Edition Shot Show 2004 Buckmark Challenge" from Gander Mt. I figure that I will be dead before its ever really worth anything and I cant wait that long. I voted to shoot it.

[waterhouse]

my 25th ann. kimber gets shot all the time.

[DMK]

I wouldn't buy one unless it was really cheap and wasn't ugly. Then yea, I'd shoot it.

But since they aren't cheap then I don't own one so I didn't vote.

[HammerBite]

I have a Mauser HSc American Eagle Edition, 1 of 5000, and I shoot it a lot.

I also have a Colt Arizona Centennial revolver which I haven't shot. I do fondle it and work the action, and it has a turn line around its lovely gold-plated cylinder, but I don't shoot it.

I don't know why.

[Clipper]

I have one of the 1994 Winchester M-12 special editions (4000 made), and though I don't have many opportunities to use it, I do indeed shoot it.

[Hemicuda]

My "Michigan edition" Ruger 10/22 gets shot, as do both my Ruger US Shooting Team guns... (a 10/22T and matching MKII pistol)

I don't own ANY gun that I don't shoot... to quote Don Johnson, talking to Mickey Rourke... "Guns are made to be SHOT, Harley"

[possum]

i didn't vote because i don't or wouldn't own a weapon like that, things like that just don't matter to me but if i did it would get shot!

[Dienekes]

Considering that they are made in substantial numbers, are available to anyone with a credit card, and won't have any appreciably higher value for decades to come--what the heck. The 50th anniversary Flattops are nice guns and should be shot.

I have only one gun that doesn't get shot, and that is an early 1911 I had engraved by a top flight engraver a while back. And even that one was shot before I had the work done--by other people in the 70 or so years before I got it and by me a few times...

[Zen21Tao]

I think, for me at least, it depends on the potiential collectible value of the gun. I have a Texas Holdem .38 that I just display (haven't though about shooting it) and Sig P239 with DHS bar code from the T&E program that I don't shoot.

[Batmaxwyo]

I have both the Ruger 50th aniversery .44 and 357, and yes I plan to shoot them. I am also going to use the .44 as my primary hunting side arm.

[Father Knows Best]

i didn't vote because i don't or wouldn't own a weapon like that, things like that just don't matter to me
If it doesn't matter to you, why are you opposed to owning one? It sounds like it DOES matter to you.

I understand and agree with those who say they wouldn't pay extra for an "anniversary" edition. Neither would I. But the Ruger mentioned in the thread starter doesn't cost any more than standard Blackhawks or Vaqueros. It has a number of desirable features that are ONLY available as the "50th Anniversary" model, including the smaller grip frame and flat top.

I now own four 50th anniversary Rugers. One of them is a 50th Aniversary Blackhawk .44 Magnum that I bought recently and fully intend to shoot (though I haven't, yet, mainly because it's so cold here). The other three are a 50th Anniversary Mark II (1999), 50th Anniversary Single Six (2003) and 50th Anniversary .357 Blackhawk (2005). They are all unfired for now, but only because they were bought as gifts for my three children, who were born in those years. When they're old enough, they will get those guns, and I fully intend for them to shoot them.

You certainly shouldn't buy "limited edition" mass production guns as investment pieces, because they won't appreciate any more than standard production guns. In fact, the opposite may be true. So many people buy them and put them away unfired that they are actually relatively common in "unfired" condition many years later, when more run-of-the-mill catalog items may be much harded to find.

[tbtrout]

I am not going to spend the money an a gun and not shoot it.

[Greek]

I shoot my 50 th anniversary NRA Bill Ruger MKII and my Ruger .357 50 th Anniversary.

[Mal H]

I think of guns like that as contrived collectors items, just like most of the stamps made by the USPO today and the state quarters. They rarely gain in value like a true collector's gun would such as a vintage SAA.

Shoot them like you would any other gun.

[HammerBite]

They rarely gain in value like a true collector's gun would such as a vintage SAA.
Does everything in life have to be done as an investment? I get many things (not just guns) because I think they're nice.

[Mal H]

Does everything in life have to be done as an investment?Uh, no! That wasn't what I said. I was saying that an anniversary or "collector's addition" gun is not worth saving by not firing it. Buy one if you like, but not for its supposed investment value. So, you and I actually said the same thing.

[Jdoc]

all guns no matter how expensive or special edition or whatever where made to be shot. :) thats the point of firearms to be fired.

[HammerBite]

OK. I have some guns I don't shoot just because I want to keep them pristine. I would never buy a gun as an investment. I just don't know enough about that market.

[mrmeval]

If I don't shoot it then I'd sell it. I don't have safe quee..ns.

[Ala Dan]

I have a NIB Ruger Blackhawk .357 magnum flattop that I intend too shoot-
soon~!;) :cool: :D