Have you ever had a gun you don't know what to do with?

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Early last year I sold a Glock and decided I was going to replace it with something nice. Really nice. Ended up buying a CZ P-01 from Cajun Gun Works and had them work their magic on it with their Pro Package, along with a set of night sights. All together it came out to about $1100 if I remember right.

Three months later it arrived at my FFL and I was happy as a clam. It's a beautiful gun. The trigger is amazing, the night sights are nice and bright. And I've only put probably 100 rounds though it since then.

It's too nice to carry, and it's not something I want to keep in my glove box for fear of it getting stolen. (I got another Glock for that!) It's really not a target pistol either, so pretty much it just sits in my safe collecting dust.

As great as it is, I sometimes wonder if I'd be better off selling it and putting that money towards another nice varmint rifle or another high end scope.
 
It's a P-01, not the Crown Jewels. Carry the dang thing.

Consider this - the wives of most shooters walk around everyday with a ring on their finger which cost more than any pistol they've ever owned... I'd worry a lot more about losing that rock than I would worry about scratching up some silly ol' P-01.
 
Ah, yes, the old "my gun is too pretty to shoot" problem. A lot of folks have one (or more) of those. Then there are the real nuts who buy some weird gun they will never shoot just in case it might become valuable some day.. Of course only an idiot would do that! (Anyone want to buy a Rogak?)

Jim
 
I love the stuff I have zero practial use for.
Single Actions, old shotguns, war rifles, and of course derringers.
Yes I know that p2000 is on sale, but at the same store, someone traded in an Uberti 1851 .38 conversion, with cowboy leather belt rig that fits.

Im already lookin for grips with silver rattlesnakes. :)
 
If I bought it to carry, I'd carry it unless there was something about it that did not work out well for my intended use once I actually had the gun in hand. I would not consider an $1100.00 gun too nice to carry. I have a number of guns that I have no practical use for, may be shot only occasionally,etc. but I enjoy owning them.......ymmv
 
Personally it sounds like you need some nice leather and an activity that an open carry gun makes sense with. I don't really see this as a problem.

I have three guns that are all $1200+, and the only reason I haven't carried them is I haven't found appropriate holsters for them yet. When I find some leather I like, I'll carry them on the trail. If open carry is out, then maybe go to the range more.

If both are out, then why are you still buying guns!?!?!?!
 
I don't want a custom carry gun, hunting yes but for CC I want stock and $600. is about all I'm willing to spend.

You're into it for decent money so I'd use it because selling may be just throwing money away.
 
I got lots and lots of guns I do not know what to do with at the moment, which is why I have a big safe to keep them safely stored! As promiscuous as I am with my guns, there will be a time when I pull one out that I have not shot in years and carry/shoot it like a new toy...until I need to replace it with something else, then it goes back in the safe.

And when I eventually pass, my child-bride can throw a big party with the money she gets from selling my horde of guns.

But none of my guns are investment guns; all are using guns. Just not used all the time.

BOARHUNTER
 
It's a P-01, not the Crown Jewels. Carry the dang thing.

Consider this - the wives of most shooters walk around everyday with a ring on their finger which cost more than any pistol they've ever owned... I'd worry a lot more about losing that rock than I would worry about scratching up some silly ol' P-01.
Maybe "most" wives, but not all. My wife paid about twice as much for the pistol she carries in her purse compared to what I paid for her rings. Of course I bought those rings in 1971, so there may have been a price increase.:D
 
But none of my guns are investment guns; all are using guns. Just not used all the time.
I'm the same way. One example is the Model 94, 30-30 I bought the year Winchester went to angle-eject for their 94s. I bought one of the last top-eject 94s, shot a deer with it that year, cleaned it, and put it away. I always say to myself it would be a good backup deer rifle to have along on hunting trips, but I leave it home in the safe anyway.:)
 
Have I ever had a gun I didn't know what to do with?

Yes, once, for about 30 seconds. Then I figured out where the bullets went and knew exactly what to do with it from that point forward.:D

Seriously, carry the danged thing and enjoy it. If you like it there's no reason to get rid of it. People spend that much on Glocks, and pretty much everyone who carries a 1911 is over a grand into them so it's not like it's a safe queen.
 
I've got quite a few guns I'll never think of selling. A couple my grandpa owned, some that were old when I bought them, and others that I've just had for a long time. I'm a sucker for nice wood and steel.

Today's offerings with the plastic stocks and what not just feel like they have no soul. Hard for me to build any attachment to them.
 
Maybe "most" wives, but not all. My wife paid about twice as much for the pistol she carries in her purse compared to what I paid for her rings. Of course I bought those rings in 1971, so there may have been a price increase.:D

I certainly didn't think it was going to be this bad, but I did look it up... Paying "twice as much" for the pistol in 2017 dollars, you paid THREE TIMES as much for the pistol as what you did for the ring. One dollar in 1971 is equivalent to a touch over $6 in 2017!
 
I certainly didn't think it was going to be this bad, but I did look it up... Paying "twice as much" for the pistol in 2017 dollars, you paid THREE TIMES as much for the pistol as what you did for the ring. One dollar in 1971 is equivalent to a touch over $6 in 2017![/QUOTE
Ha! You're right - I never thought about that.:D
But doesn't that work the other way? I mean, if I paid $200.00 for those rings in 1971 dollars, wouldn't I have had to pay $1200.00 for them in 2017? Yet my wife only paid about $400.00 for her Glock 42 last year. If dollars were worth six times as much in 1971 as they are today, wouldn't that mean my wife could have bought her pistol for about $67.00 ($400.00/6) in 1971? I'm getting confused, and way, way off topic!:D
But on top of all that, I bought my wife's rings on base, at the Navy Exchange - they cost me about half of what they would have cost me at a downtown jewelry store in 1971.:D
 
If it makes you feel better, I carry a Wilson Master Grade as a duty gun.

Had that gun built in 1989 and carried it for 10 years as a city cop and shot thousands of rounds in IPSC matches with it. We went to issued Glocks and, I had to park it.

Retired, got a job at a University Police Department and plopped that same old gun back in a holster.

It's the the single most accurate gun I own and, I'm very good with it. It's THE gun I want in my hand if I have to take a shot in a classroom.

I payed a lot for it. I'm getting my monies worth out of it.
 
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