Do you get tired of a gun due to recoil, ammo cost or accuracy?

[RonBernert]

I traded off an amazingly accurate SKS because I no longer shot it as often as I wished. I live out in the country where I could shoot it every day if I wanted. I traded it for a couple of other revolvers and shoot them more often.
I've been more into .22 shooting more than any other, though. It doesn't scare the horses in the field near the targets, and I can shoot all day for $20.00, and the steel targets have a polite little "ping" when they get hit..

 

[mongo4567]

I've sold off duplicates, keeping the better ones. I can't think of any that I sold due to bad accuracy, I have fixed some though. I sold one that shot very obscure cartridge, it was also hard to get brass for it.

I got rid of a rifle that was too accurate, it was a heavy 26" barrel .308 and I got bored with it. It was too heavy to hunt with, and I couldn't bring myself to cut the barrel on a Winchester to 20". After a .34" group at 100 yards I didn't see bettering it. It's like beating a video game...

 

[Danus ex]

I dove into the world of C&Rs by basically acquiring every rifle I could reasonably afford. The main thing I love about the old rifles is how each nation had their own gun which reflected their own design philosophies and requirements. My goal was to try everything I could to see what I liked, and in the following years, I've trimmed my collection way down and centered on two primary calibers (.30-06 and 7.62x54R) after weighing the pros and cons of each gun and comparing them side-by-side. My C&R rifle collection has gone from about 40 guns down to approximately 8, and some of those are duplicates.

Overall fit, accuracy, and ammo logistics (not necessarily cost, but having to stock a ton of calibers sucks) are my main concerns these days. I do break my own rule a little by keeping individual rifles that are ridiculously accurate regardless of what they shoot, in my case a 1943 RC K98k and a 1917 M96.

 

[Hatterasguy]

I don't get tired of them, I just shoot them less. I own a lot of guns so they all don't get a lot of range time, some come out only a couple of times a year.

I mostly shoot whats cheap, right now thats .22LR and 7.62x54R. An AK74 is on my list and when I get that my .223 rifles are going to be sitting in the safe a lot.

I'll still shoot them, I'll just put 2-3 mags through them once in awhile, than blast spam cans of 5.45 down range. Thats about what I do now with the Mosin and Swiss guns. GP11 costs twice as much as 7.62x54R so I put a few through the Swiss guns for every spam can of 7.62 I shoot.

 

[kimberkid]

I've gotten rid of rifle's for a myriad of reasons, from being boringly accurate to laughably inaccurate, to being heavy to hard on brass and even burning too much powder

I don't have one thats "laughably inaccurate" but have nearly quit shooting 308, 8mm and 22-250 for all your other reasons ... as well as recoil. Not that any of them have bad recoil, just that after I turned 50 I started appreicating the milder shooting and less expensive 223 ... however I still have many thousand rounds of 308 and 8mm

 

[killchain]

Almost every time I have stopped shooting a gun it was because of ammo costs.

There were two that I got rid of because they couldn't hit the air I was shooting into.

 

[Col. Plink]

pitched an irritatingly innacurate Ruger 10/22. Don't know how long I tried to sight it in with a supercheapo Tasco scope only to discover the recoil was making the dials move because they didn't click into place. Then spent just as long trying to sight it in with a decent scope, only to find out it just wasn't that accurate. One day spent sighting-in my nephew's Marlin 60 convinced me I needed one and had wasted a lot of time and ammo on the Ruber 10/22

Hah! That was a typo but I'm keepin' it!!

 

[Ignition Override]

The only reason I've left my Yugo Mauser still for a few months is that I used four surplus Czech or Yugo rds. to try and hit the sticky black target at 100 yards, and missed.

Will keep the rifle and hope to acquire skill to use the iron sights, instead of finding a scope etc. Have 3,400 rds. and the rifle's style really appeals to me.

('30s) Savage .22, SKS, Mini 30, LE #4, #5 "Jungle Carbine", Mauser.
A Garand arrives in three weeks, in a friend's car.

 

[hatchetbearer]

I typically dont sell guns, but i will trade for something i like better.

 

[ol' scratch]

I sold a PTR 91 once because it destroyed brass. I sold my Century AK because it wasn't as accurate and didn't have the power I was looking for. I sold my Russian SKS for the same reason, sold an 8mm Turk Mauser because some one made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I sold my Sigma because it was a piece of crap.

I always bought something else with the cash. PTR 91= 1911
Turk Mauser + SKS=PTR 91
Century AK= Sigma= 1911
accessories from AK, PTR, SKS= Remington 870 12 gauge shotgun