Do you have a mint condition gun you do not shoot?

[Robbins290]

I have a smith and wesson Model 2 number 2. In almoat unfired condition with factory nickel still on it. Barly a scratch on her and with paper work from 1877. Too bad i cant find a box for it

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Maybe one or two...

 

[USAF_Vet]

I voted no, because I don't have any mint condition guns. However, I haven't (but probably would) shot my grand dad's Arisaka, which is in very good condition, but not mint.

I don't see the purpose in owning a gun if I'm not going to shoot it unless it's a family heirloom like the type 38.

 

[Onward Allusion]

woad_yurt
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....H&R 1885 top-break manual ejector in 32S&W Long....
For real? 1885 was about 10-15 years before .32 S&W Long was introduced.

All I know is that it's a hand ejector H&R Top-break chambered in 32 S&W Long (EDIT - not 32 S&W Long - 32S&W). Research says it was made between 1883 - 1887. I have run across maybe 2 on Gunbroker in the last 3 years and none in the condition of mine. I can't post a pic until I get a chance to take a photo at the bank's safety deposit box.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Sort of. I was given an all-matching DWM Luger that has a history, was fired by the gentleman that gave it to me, but I've never shot it. I may, but it won't be much if at all.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

I don't have many at the moment and definatly nothing that would be deserving of not being shot but I can imagine myself getting a gun in the future that I wouldn't shoot for whatever reason. I can't really imagine anyone taking a gun like the 100th anniversery Colt 1911 and shooting that (didn't that sell for over $100,000?), I wonder if the factory even test fired that.

 

[ShawnC]

My father in law has a really nice unfired S&W .357 that he got from his best friend's wife after he died. He refuses to shoot it and my wife said that if I ever somehow acquired it I wasn't allowed to shoot it for sentimental reasons. I told her that if that were true, I would turn it down if it were offered to me.
I used to think that Whatever I bought I would shoot. But I suppose if somehow I ended up with a really nice, antique firearm, I'd probably stow it in the gun locker and just show it off once in a while. I can't picture that scenario ever happening, though. I'd much rather get a historically accurate replica and shoot that.

 

[RevDerb]

Absolutely not! My guns are shooters and that's what I do with them. If I want to collect for investment, I'll get into coins or stamps.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Rumor has it that my father in law has a gun that once belonged to Alphonse Capone. His (my father in law) father was a roofer/ carpenter that did some work on Capone's house in holland, Michigan. Instead of monetary payment, Al paid him with a pistol.

I've never seen it, nor has my wife, so we're wondering about the validity of the story. He's pretty much said that we won't know til he's dead and his will is executed.

Still, if that is true, and my wife inherits the pistol, it won't be shot. It'll be put in a shadow box and put on display somehwere. Or kept in a safe deposit box.

 

[savage23]

I have a 104 year old Winchester Model 1894 SRC in .38/55 that goes with me deer hunting every year. While it's not mint,i use it for it's intended purpose.

 

[littlebluevette]

 

[rugerman]

A total of 1, its a 44mag Ruger super blackhawk bicential model unfired in the box. But I have a non bicentenial model that I've shot umpteen thousand times.