Beater Guns?

I don't abuse, beat, drop, etc, any of my guns. No matter what the condition. I value my guns.....chris3

While I don't consider any of my firearms "beaters"... I didn't buy expensive guns so they're "all" beaters. They're tools... to be used (not abused). None are pricey safe queens.

The only "beater" I have is an old .22 rifle I picked up at a yard sale for $10. Split stock, no bolt, front sight missing, barrel so rusted I can't even read the model except I know it's a Winchester because of the half buttplate that's left that reads "Winche...".

I'm waiting for a local liberal gun buy program. Maybe I can add a pistol grip some way, then I figure I can get at least $100 gift card out of it.

Pretty much every gun I have except for a Wingmaster. I don't really care if a gun get's worn in use.

I have a Ruger P94 that lives in my 1987 Chevy 4x4 pickup. Bought used for $200 OTD. Even so, I don't "abuse" the pistol. It's never been dropped (by me anyway) and I keep it clean and lubed.

My Ruger Security Six that I picked up about 2 or 3 years ago or so for $195OTD. Had been in someone's tackle box and the water in the bottom caused some nasty corrosion. Purely cosmetic though. The corrosion has been neutralized, strength has not been compromised (as well as anyone can tell), and it is in mechanically awesome shape.
It can go camping in the woods and get wet and I don't have to worry about it. I still do oil and care appropriately obviously, but I don't treat it with kid-gloves the way I do with my 95% Model 19.



Also, my new 1911. It was made in 2008 (at least the frame was. The rest of the parts are likely a mishmash of Colt 1911 parts from various eras that they had in parts bins) and used at the Colt plant to do armorer's training. Shot very very little, but tons of cosmetic blemishes and full of idiot scratches. So I got it for $450OTD. It's reap idly becoming one of my favorite pistols for the same reasons as the Ruger. Its just plain works, every time, period, and I don't have to worry about the finish at all. I can't get this thing to fail, even when i try limp-wristing, and it'll even load empty cases right from the mags when i mix empties in with the loaded rounds.

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I don't care to abuse any of my firearms.

Well, maybe the Mosin Nagant since it was $80, is easily replaceable, and has no sentimental value.

Mine are all what some have termed 'working guns'. Of them I suppose the ones that I would be least-bothered to see dropped or used HARD would be the Glocks. They don't care and neither do I.

Nobody else going to post pics of their worn, scratched, dinged and dented "beaters?"

19-3Ben said:

Nobody else going to post pics of their worn, scratched, dinged and dented "beaters?"

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I don't really have any. Somewhere there is a picture of my 10/22 in deplorable condition after shooting it, pretty literally, in a river of muddy water...

This was the best I could do. My favorite and most expensive rifle:

Of course I have some. 2 shotguns and 2 .22 revolvers. When my son was 8 and wanted to take a friend with him on our hunting trip, I did not break out the good guns. Muck, rain, across the lake in the canoe, briar patches, Mesquite thorns and bob-wire fences.
Those guns and many others are his when he settles down. So that he can take my grandkids and one of their friends hunting.

I was raised to take care of everything. The oldest truck on the farm, with its rust and dents, was not to be purposely abused or we would be in trouble with the old man. Same way with firearms. There are no beater trucks, and there are no beater firearms. If an item has a purpose, a use, then it needs to be kept working to fulfill that use. The old truck on the farm hauled the rolls of barbed wire, not the shiny new truck, but it was the old truck, not the beater truck, if that makes sense.

With that said, there are some firearms that we don't use in the same conditions as others. There are special firearms in the family that were gifts, or were "Granddad's", things like that, and we are careful with those items.

If letting a firearm bounce around inside a truck is considered okay, then I don't do that either. Casual attitudes around firearms is not acceptable either.

My S&W has been hauled all over the country. It has some slight indications of its days on my hip, or in the glove box. So, I guess, in the mildest terms it has been a beater. My BHP's are for home defense, they are in their "place" and they look brand new. The CZ is the range gun of choice, it looks brand new too.

thats the only allure to plastic fantastics.

Glock19Fan said:

I think you guys are misunderstanding the term "beater".

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Excellent explanation for those (many) who apparently misunderstood.

And for those here who still may not Get It:

UrbanDictionary defines "beater" as:
A car used for daily transport to avoid damage or wear on a nicer car.

Now, think firearms instead of cars.

Actually, this is probably more of a question for the coureurs de bois among us, rather than those who only shoot at ranges.

For many years I did keep a beat up but functional Spanish Mauser 98 in various car trunks with a few clips of ammo, mixed Belgian FMJ and Remington SP. It was a little ore accurate than a smoothbore shotgun with Foster slugs, but not much, and ugly as your worst blind date nightmare. Still have the rifle but no place worth taking up space in my current pick up. I also left an old Colt PS in .32 NP (S&W LONG) in various glove boxes over the years that I got in pieces in a shoebox for $20, it only worked reliably single action when reassembled but beat not having a gun and was no great loss if stolen. Typically I dropped something better on top of it, but if I did not , it was there and beat not having a gun. Having lost a S&W27 and an HK P7 from cars that were broken into over the years, I was not big on keeping anything worth crying over in a car.

Thank goodness for concealed carry that is good in my neighboring states.

-kBob

I've got/had a few that fit that discription, A LE surplus Sig P220 is my current truck gun.

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A Sig P220 relegated to a beater truck gun? How sad (although I have a P225 that's in about the same condition, but I still don't consider that a beater).

Mine would have to be my Kel-Tec P11. It still looks like new, but even new these things just look like beaters.

A Sig P220 relegated to a beater truck gun? How sad (although I have a P225 that's in about the same condition, but I still don't consider that a beater).

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Rest assured just cause I concider it a beater, don't think it's being abused
It rides in a pouch and is kept clean and oiled, It just has some characture and I wouldn't be heartbroke for it to get another scratch.
Just like I still take care of my beater work car I just don't care if it gets door dinged in the parking lot.

I was raised to take care of everything. The oldest truck on the farm, with its rust and dents

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If they were taken care of how did they get rust and dents?

Just like mine, from daily WORK.

mavracer said:

If they were taken care of how did they get rust and dents?

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Believe it or not, stupid Holstein cows will take that solid bone head of theirs and ram a truck when you are trying to take her calf from her, and the cow crap is worse than salt, so in Kentucky the Chevy never had a chance with its cheap metal that should have been treated to withstand corrosion.

p.s. The next truck we got to put on the farm we undercoated the entire underside and inside of the bed (this was before Rhino liners), and the Chevy rusted under the undercoat and the bed fell through on it. Just saying, we tried.

p.s.s. That was the next to last Chevy, we tried one more time and it had a piston slap from day one. Now the big trucks are Fords and the little trucks are Nissans and Toyotas.

p.s. The next truck we got to put on the farm we undercoated the entire underside and inside of the bed (this was before Rhino liners), and the Chevy rusted under the undercoat and the bed fell through on it. Just saying, we tried.

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If you keep them clean they don't rust, It would appear that you treat your trucks like beaters, but just don't want to call a spade a spade.
Make me wonder if you have any really nice guns.

About half of mine are. I just consider a beater gun to be one that I'll take anywhere and don't really care if it gets dropped, wet, dirty or whatever else. Those would be my XD9, SP101, KT PF9, one of the ARs and the Mossberg 500.

I have a single shot off brand shotgun that I paid a total of $30 for. Cracked stock, heavy pitting and looks ugly. Shoots really nice especially for a single shot like this.

Whichever of my 2 4" HB DAO Mod. 64's I've got on me~ called 'Pancho' and 'Lefty'. Pancho has Uncle Mike's rubber grips and stays dirty; it the go-to pistol for a little knocking around and shooting. 'Lefty' wears a pair of mismatched factory round butt wood grips and is kept clean for carry, but is the one that has been dropped on concrete, ect. I don't think of them as 'beater' guns so much as 'duty' guns as they are the type we use at work.

As for a rifle, these days I'd tend toward my AK but don't flinch at taking my older M-1 out in the elements as both are 'kept dirty'.