Do you keep one or more safe queen(s)?

[cratz2]

I think I've probably onwed three guns that I never fired... Maybe 5 max!

Some guns, I just don't really see a pressing need to shoot... The main gun I can think of was an unfired Winchester Boy Scout Rifle. See no reason in the world of a non-Boy Scout adult to shoot an unfired limited edition Boy Scout Rifle.

 

[techmike]

Ahhhhhhhgggggghhh

BTW....I do have a Harley Davidson that I haven't started in about 10 years now (nothing was wrong with it the last time I shut the engine down), so I guess you don't understand that either.

Guns are meant to be fired, motorcycles and horses to be ridden, women to be loved and children to be spoiled! I guess I don't understand it either. If I own it, I use it. That's the fun part. I have some very nice things and they all get used...some of them daily. My brother has fits when I dress a deer with a $400 knife. My wife has fits when I take thousands of dollars of camera equipment to the beach. As far as I'm concerned, life is short...play with ALL the toys!

 

[entropy]

A few, all inherited. A 16 ga. H&R single with a hair trigger, it is unsafe to shoot, but I keep it because it was my grandpa's pheasant gun for most of his life, until my Dad bought him a Win. 1300. An 1860 Army replica my uncle built for my grandpa honoring his grandpa, who was issued one in the Civil War. A .410 H&R single with a broken extractor I haven't got around to fixing yet. I do shoot the Mossberg .22 and Remington .22 I inherited, though.

 

[Spieler]

Never had a safe queen and probably never will. Simple economics preclude me from purchasing something that will never be utilized. All of my guns over the years have been shooters and loaners. If it didn't work or didn't fulfill the task I had bought it for it was gone. In retrospect I probably should have kept a few of my evil imported black guns as safe queens and could have made a killing selling them for 2 or 3 times what I paid for them in the last decade, but I didn't. Oh well.

 

[Dorrin79]

Only one - my factory nickel-chromed pre-MkII Browning Hi-Power.

Actually been toying with the idea of selling it, since it seems kind of silly to own a gun that I never shoot.

I only bought it because it was a deal too good to pass up.

 

[fastball]

Alone in the crowd.

Majic, guess it's you and me againt the world. I have a 6'' H&R 999 that is a safe queen. Yes, I said (okay typed) H&R. It is 100%, gets wiped down when handled. Could have sold it a doz. times but what of it's quality and classic looks would $200 bucks buy??---Tom

 

[joab]

Is a neglected gun the same as a queen.
Out of 19 long guns that I own 9 have never been fired by me simply because, living in the city and not being close to an outdoor range, I haven't had the opportunity.
out of the remaining 10 only 2 are shot with any regularity, again only because it is inconvient
1 old .22 rifle is the only one with any semblence of family history.
on April 24th 1981 at a distance that I had figured at 75yds but an artillery friend placed closer to 125 on a down hillgrade of about 60 degrees. I shot a snake through the head, where the skull and neck meet, with an old used Savage model 6A that I had bought earlier that day for $15 as a birthday present to myself.
The snake was killed instantly and went rigid flipping out of the water end over end two and a half times before hitting the water again. The most amazing part of the whole story is that the bullet went exactly where I wanted it to.

Today at 42 the event is still seared ...seared into my brain I close my eyes and see it in my mind like it was yesterday. It sereves as a reminder of when I was young and could actually see well enough to be a formidable marksman.
I've told the story so many times that my son says that he is going to have it inscribed on the stock when I die and use it as a head stone.
It's also the one that he fondles the most when he fondles even though almost all of my guns are much cooler

All handguns are shot at the time of purchase or within a day or two although many serve no immediate purpose so they lay in wait in the safe

 

[Chut1st]

There are 2 "Friends of the NRA" issues on display in my office (Henry Golden Boy and Beretta 96) that haven't been fired. The main reason I bought them was to support the NRA and I was high bidder at significantly less than the MSRP of the standard non-NRA models. It's not a matter of not wanting to shoot them and I don't think they are going to significantly appreciate in value over the next few years. But I have so many other guns that I really like to shoot and only so much time to do so. One other "safe queen" is an S&W Police and Military Special that my father bought before I was born. It's certainly been fired (it was the first handgun I ever shot at the tender age of around 8) but .38 Special just doesn't have enough oomph for me any more and I want to keep it in the current pristine condition with the original box, oiled paper and cleaning tool.

 

[UnintendedConsequences]

There are "fancy" guns and then there are "utility" guns

My catagories are "fancy" and "utility". A fancy gun to me is one with a high polished nice wood stock and fine blueing you can see your face in. Then there are the stainless or matte stainless steel and synthetic stocked guns or the ones that are parkerized or with a matte camo finish, those are the utility guns you can use and perhaps abuse a little and not feel bad about it.

With the bad weather I hunt in, I prefer a utility gun over a fancy gun because I don't mind the elements ruining a nice gun. Then again, I love the old warhorses like the SMLEs and Garands and the like, but those that are pretty original with the original parts I baby. The ones that have been sporterized already I just use and enjoy.

And then there are those that are shootable, but missing parts...though nice for gunsmithing projects that you wouldn't want ot practice on nice guns, at least not at first.

I shoot what I own, but if I can do the same with a utility gun, I save the fancy gun for nice weather.

Don't get me wrong, if I had a 100 year old gun in an obscure chambering, yes, I would refrain from shooting it. But I prefer guns I can shoot and take care of and love.

 

[ewb45acp]

I voted yes a few...

But they're not really safe queens. There are a few pistols that I just never seem to get around to taking out to the range.