Do you own guns you have NEVER fired?

[AKElroy]

I live in a small gated neighborhood. I do not have a lease, or access to land, so nearly all of my shooting is at the range. I go maybe once a month, and I usually take my 3 CCW's & nothing else. I have SEVERAL guns I bought just because they were good deals, and I just have not taken time to shoot them yet. I have a near perfect Yugo SKS I picked up 2 years ago that I have never fired. I hunt dove & deer on mooched cull hunts w/ friends, so my rifles & shotguns get a workout, and I stay proficient with my CCW's, but am I the only one with other great guns that just sit?

 

[PT1911]

cant say I have... each of my guns was taken to the range within a day if not hours of its aquisition...

 

[WardenWolf]

Yes, only because I just picked it up yesterday and can't get to the range until Saturday.

 

[deano186]

S&W Model 68

I found an unfired S&W Model 68 LAPD 38 Special at the Phoenix gun show a few weeks ago and bought it. It's the only gun I've ever owned without shooting right away.

I'm still conflicted about shooting it, but I think I will unless I run into another S&W 64-67 that I can buy and shoot in it's place for a good price, and soon.

 

[WNC Seabee]

I have a couple, but they are definitely in the "haven't shot, yet" category. Either fairly new acquisitions or can't find ammo.

 

[SpecialKalltheway]

never made it more than a few hours past owning one without shooting it. Doesn't mean I am against it though. I guess I should just keep trying by buying more and more guns

 

[tunnug]

I have 3 rifles and 1 shotgun that I bought because they were great buys but I have not had a chance to shoot, one of these days I'll take them out, but I'm in no hurry.

 

[PTK]

Just one, right now. A "backup" 28ga single shot I've not brought to the range.

 

[Dr. Fresh]

Yeah, an H&R single-shot .22 that I bought a while ago and haven't gotten around to firing.

 

[jakk280rem]

back in january i picked up a pre-'64 winchester 88. it has a small crack running from the action through the wrist. every time i go shooting i consider taking it, but relent as i want to get it repaired before i fire it. any gun i own that i dont fire, thats not waiting on repairs, gets sold to make way for guns that i do shoot. two rifles have left me this way. a 03A3 springer, and a h&r handi in 17hmr.

 

[Weezy]

I believe not feeding your children regularly constitutes abuse.

 

[loop]

I have a couple dozen I've never fired. That is not to say they were never fired, just that I've never fired them.

I don't have time to fire and clean all my guns.

I shoot about 5 percent of my collection. I clean 100 percent.

That takes care of all my free time.

I would be happy to sell 20 rifles for $2,000 just so I don't have to clean them anymore.

If you do not have guns you have not fired you need to buy more guns and grow older.

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

I do own one I havn't fired yet... but I bought it two days ago and it's been raining, and I'm not quite that hardcore.

 

[kirklandkie]

i have one but i bought it at cabelas this past weekend. It's a savage model 7a, an old semi-auto .22 from 1948

-kirk

 

[Zach S]

Yes, got it about the time my daughter was born (she turns two in June).

Its an AR45 lower. I got the LPK installed, and that's about it. Still dont have the rest of the parts needed to put it together.

 

[TAB]

I currently have 2.

1 I just got and have not made it out to the range yet. The other needs a scope. Money has been tight as of late so I have not been able to buy one.

 

[jackstinson]

Nope. I always at the very least shoot new a acquisition several times to check it's function and sight it in.
Some may not get fired often after that, but all have been fired by myself personally. Most of them get rotated to the range at least once or twice a year just to enjoy them.

 

[Ruodo]

One right now. A colt detective special in .38 Colt new police. Can't find ammo for the damned thing.

 

[Cannonball888]

Yes, about 15 out of 25.

 

[mainmech48]

Just one right now, a factory nickeled Pietta 1858 Remington replica I bought several years ago.

It was priced right, and I'd never seen a nickel plated one before. I have several other C&B revolvers that I shoot fairly regularly.

 

[DHJenkins]

Never for more than 2 weeks...

 

[Hanzerik]

The only gun I have had that I never fired since I bought it was a VZ-24 Czechoslovakian Mauser. I had shot it before I bought it from a friend, but not after. I sold it a few years ago.

 

[Trebor]

I've got a bunch of guns I haven't shot yet.

I got into mil-surp collecting a few years ago and bought some Mosins and some Mausers and I just haven't had them all to the range yet.

Between buying them faster then I could shoot them a few years back and not having time to go to the range recently with my newer purchases I've got a backlog of guns I need to break in.

My next range trip I'm going to shoot my Colt 6920 and Stag/Colt M-16A1 style AR for the first time.

Now that I've joined a range closer to my house hopefully I can make range trips a little more often. One of my problems was my range was an hour away.

 

[MaterDei]

If you do not have guns you have not fired you need to buy more guns and grow older.

I would counter by saying that if you have guns that you have not fired then you either have too many guns or you have safe queens.

My range is my back yard. My new guns generally don't make it inside their new home before they are shot.

 

[bratch]

Yes, not sure how many