Beater Guns?

[Warp]

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.

I figure farm trucks are work trucks, not trucks you wash and wax and polish and sit in the garage.

 

[USAF_Vet]

All my guns have wear and tear. Some of it has been come by honestly, others from idiocy.

I don't consider any of them to be beaters, because I don't own anything really nice to begin with.

2nd gen S&W 9mm: worn blueing, some old corrosion spots
Late 70s Taurus 94: worn blueing
Taurus 709s: holster wear and scratches (its my daily ccw)
AR-15 got an idiot scratch by the front take down pin.
Maverick 88 has got its fair share of scratches and scuffs.

Everything in the collection has been shot, scratched, scuffed, worn, dropped, etc.

 

[torqem]

So you "think" that a single shot will suffice?

When we've had proof that one man with a Mini-14, with just the use of one arm, dying of a lung perforation and his brachial artery being cut, can take one 8 men with pistols (one whom had a 12 ga pump, but had taken a 223 to the shoulder) I think that such "thinking" is foolish in the extreme. You can easily face 2 men with pistols. So you get one with the 12 ga. Then it takes you 2 full seconds to drop the splattergun and draw your high point and hit. With the guy already shooting at you 4x per second, from 10 ft away(most likely). I think that you'll wish you'd had a repeating longarm (or not bothered with the single shot at all.)

Yeah, I've got time and money to waste, driving to the car wash every day, getting wet/frozen while spraying the road salt out from under it. In the summer, roads here have a version of salt sprayed on them, in an attempt to glaze over the dust. We don't want them paved, because paved roads are dangerous as hell when they ice-over.

 

[Legionnaire]

None of mine are "beaters." They get used and show wear, but I take good care of them. Even the older ones are in great shape for their age.

 

[Lennyjoe]

AR15 in 7.62x39 on a Cav Arms MKII lower. Toss it in a soft case in the back of the truck when I'm out in the bush near the border.

Savage 110 in 30-06 is my beat up favorite hunting rifle. Stock is pretty beat up but it shoots great and never fails.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I like to think of them as "utility" guns. My brother assembled an AKM kit (7.62) from a Hungarian rear folder and Romanian front half. I upgraded the handguards, and added a Zeiss Z-Point (worth way more than the gun). He called it a "trunk gun" and gave it to me as a gift. It looks fine, but can take a beating, or neglect, but I keep it tight. Also have a S&W Model 10 .38 Special snub that I got recently for $240 OTD which has very thin blueing, but is otherwise mechanically perfect and sighted dead on, AND accurate. It COULD be expended, if necessary, but once again, I take care of them, and it can go and ride in tough places, and I wouldn't worry much. Three of my other daily carry guns are quite worn, and so much that I could lay them on a rock in the woods, and you wouldn't notice an new scratches, and I like that: I don't have to worry about them. They are working guns.

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[pyro073]

My "beaters" are my 10/22, GP100 and my P245. The VZ2008 I have on layway will be my bigger caliber truck gun.

 

[C5rider]

This little jewel.

It's been there and done that, but it eats my SWC reloads like candy.

 

[sirgilligan]

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.

Tools have to work in the environment in which they serve. Some environments are harsh. A blued firearm should have a film of oil on it if you are in a humid environment. Too much oil in a dry dusty environment will gum things up. A rifle in a scabbard allows you to carry it and still be able to draw it to shoot a varmint, but part of the stock is exposed and can get dinged and scratched, but that is the environment. I wouldn't buy a rifle with a fancy wood stock and put it in that environment. Now, if it was the only rifle I had, and I needed it, it would have to be used.

So, if the tool is to be used in an environment where it will take a beating and that situation defines the tool to be a beater, then yes I have worked with meany beaters. None of which were neglected.

 

[12131]

My EDC, P228

 

[BSA1]

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[mavracer]

I figure farm trucks are work trucks, not trucks you wash and wax and polish and sit in the garage.

So you admit to neglecting certain vehicles and you don't claim to take care of every thing like Sirgilligan who I was responding to. So of course I agree with you.

So, if the tool is to be used in an environment where it will take a beating and that situation defines the tool to be a beater, then yes I have worked with meany beaters. None of which were neglected.

Now you get it.

You have never worked around cattle and horses have you?

Been around them quite a bit, been around a few cars and trucks too.
Your point?

 

[LOLBELL]

No. Not a single one.

Can't imagine owning a gun I was afraid to use. Maybe a family heirloom or something

 

[jamesjames]

i am travelling right now and using our wonderful air travel system to get across the country.

i've traveled with nice guns that i wanted to take to the range here at my midwestern destination. and i've worried and sweated that i would lose that valuable firearm to a baggage handler or or other mishap.

now i travel with a $300 smith model 64 that i don't have to worry about. if i lose it, its no big deal. i can go to the range and go plinking with relatives on my visit without the worry of losing an expensive or precious (to me) firearm.

we call them beater guns because its a shorthand term, not because we beat them. beater or utility, its a firearm that can go places and be with me and i don't have to worry about it.

 

[justice06rr]

A couple of guns I don't mind getting beat up are a Glock23 Gen2 and a Mosin Nagant Rifle. they're already beat up to begin with!

 

[Agsalaska]

I read all of these posts and realize I look at guns a little different. Most of my guns are safe queens. Some are expensive. Some are not. But the vast majority do not see the light of day. I have also never like the term 'tool.' But whatever.

There are a few I am willing to shoot and have for a 'beater' purpose.

1. I have a Model 10 that is beat up pretty bad. But it shoots just fine. It would be the first gun I would give to a relative, etc.

2. My go to deer rifle is a Rem 760 in 30-06. I clean it and all but dont care if it gets beat up. And it is getting there. It gets a lot of use all year long and spends days in the field.

I guess thats about it.

 

[chopinbloc]

These two:

 

[postalnut25]

I bought six (6) Model 10 police trade-ins a few years ago for my kids & nephew. None of them are pretty, but they all work. While not abusing them, I figure they can be the guns that get the joy of working with kids, who drop stuff, smack stuff into other stuff, etc.

My duty gun is a Kimber. I have custom grips with sentimental type pieces inlaid into them. It is also engraved. However, it rides in a Sam Browne every day of it's life. Therefore, it gets beat up. It is amazing how it gets scratched while wrestling with crooks, nice and wet when it snows, dirty as heck during training classes, etc. I trust my life to it, but it gets beat up, just like I do. There is a difference between use and abuse/neglect.

 

[guyfromohio]

Benelli Nova is my beater. I can have a good day doing any kind of shot gunning with that plastic piece of tested reliability. From trap to clays to pheasant to duck to turkey to deer...... I'm just a choke tube away.

My beater/truck pistol is a CZ P-07. Didn't cost much, shoots better than my higher end guns, and can carry too. I would so hold a Smith SV or Ruger P in this class.