Do you own guns you have NEVER fired?

[545days]

Yes, for several reasons.

1. Ammo is difficult to obtain (577-.450 Martini, 6mm pinfire)
2. Gun is awaiting restoration, or missing parts
3. Old gun which does not handle ruptured cases well. Gas from a ruptured case would be directed back to shooter's face, and since I have more than one 8mm, why shoot one that is less safe? (GEW 88)
4. Gun which has been modified until it is borderline unsafe (8mm Carcano conversion.)

In cases 3 & 4, I am aware that many people shoot these weapons regularly. I have other guns to shoot, so I choose not to shoot these. I don't believe that either of examples listed would blow-up on me. However, as a mechanical engineer, I prefer to fire weapons which have a larger safety factor.

I will probably eventually shoot these rifles with nice sedate cast bullet hand loads. At the moment I am too busy to work up appropriate loads.

 

[crazy-mp]

Yep quite a few that I have never shot. But from time to time I rummage through the gun safe and get one out and shoot it, except for a few that will remain NIB.

 

[jakemccoy]

I have two rifles that are over a year old that I have never fired, and I've been to the range several times since buying them. I won't say what kind of rifles because I'd get flamed even more.

I can't explain it. It is what it is.

 

[Bullitt196]

Haven't shot my MK23, can't decide if I will.

 

[chuckusaret]

Gee, Does this make sense. I have a 1969 Harley, just going to lock it in the garage, and each month I am going to clean it and stroke it, then lock it up for another month. I can not think of one thing that I own that I don't use at least monthly. I have several old handguns, rifles and shotguns and they are taken to the range and fired along with my SD and HD weapons monthly. If I don't use I don't keep it.

 

[jcwit]

Well put Chuck but what is you had 200 Harleys, some of them almost impossible to replace, do you really think you would ride each and every one?

 

[mjb]

S&W model M&P .38 spl made in 1920's. Blue steel, 5 inch barrel

 

[22-rimfire]

If you buy a gun today and don't shoot it with the intent of selling it at an obscene profit later, you should have your gun-owner's decoder ring taken away. Its not a worthwhile investment if you are doing it to screw your fellow gunowners.

Sex never entered into my mind.

I would like to get a 375 H&H and I know I probably won't shoot it often, but I would shoot it. Just not much need for such a thing in my part of the country. You never know when I might make a trip to Alaska however if fortune falls my way.

I have a couple 22 rifles that I have not shot yet. Two need scopes and one may get a scope (39A)?. The other stays the way it was born. They were all purchased to shoot however.

I do have stuff that never gets shot. Obscene profits is not something I associate with guns unless you are really really lucky and dig up an old Parker 8 ga or something for $200.

 

[sgist]

So many guns, so little time.

 

[D-Day]

Yes.

 

[CoRoMo]

Sometimes.

Currently... yes.

Soon... nope.

 

[Claude Clay]

just one

a unturned/unfired alphabet bearcat I'm saving for my daughters' dividend

 

[WoofersInc]

I got a few that are unfired. If I come across something that I have wanted and I have the money I will buy it. It may be a while before it gets shot though. Between work and cost of ammo right now not everything can go out to the range. Even when I plan a big trip with friends out to the desert to shoot I don't even then always shoot everything that I bring out with me.

 

[JWJacobVT]

Yes a couple of 45 colts. one ruger vaquero and one S&W 625 2 inch.
I haven't had a chance to reload any and at $35.00 a box, I sure am not going to buy any.

 

[kentucky bucky]

I've even fired my 1840's Ohio Rifle.

 

[Afy]

I have shot all my guns..but there are a few I havent shot in over a couple of years.

 

[cbrgator]

Haven't shot my recently purchased Saiga 12 yet

 

[wyohome]

I have a pair of Canadian Centennial 30-30s that I have never fired. Unfourtunatly my brother-in-law decided to let his kids use them one year for hunting deer on the Olympic Peninsula. They are now worth less than most 94s.

 

[AKElroy]

If you buy a gun today and don't shoot it with the intent of selling it at an obscene profit later, you should have your gun-owner's decoder ring taken away. Its not a worthwhile investment if you are doing it to screw your fellow gunowners.

Selling guns for a profit "screws" fellow gunowners? Gun stores should be non-profit organizations? When somebody buys something that another is selling, that is called commerce, and it defines value. If it were not for the ability to generate profit, you would have no guns to buy, my friend. No one would make them. I know attacking profit has become par for the course in our Obamanation, but I for one am thankful for a market that gives me choices. Without it, we have NONE.

 

[THe Dove]

nope!

The Dove

 

[jaholder1971]

I've got a Steyr M95 that hasn't been fired, only because I haven't been to the rifle range yet.

 

[GBExpat]

If you buy a gun today and don't shoot it with the intent of selling it at an obscene profit later, you should have your gun-owner's decoder ring taken away. Its not a worthwhile investment if you are doing it to screw your fellow gunowners.

<chuckle> That's just silly.

 

[onebigelf]

Only one, an unfired Yugo SKS still in the cosmoline. It's the backup to my backup so that I have SOMETHING in 7.62x39.

John

 

[mgkdrgn]

Yes, the Puma/Rossi Model 92 in 454 Casual that I bought day before yesterday.

Of course, it's been raining since day before yesterday.

 

[JuryRig]

In the past, yes. Currently, no.

I have an uncle who used to have lots of guns and had a FFL. I stopped listening to his gun advice when I realized he did not shoot any of his guns. None. The cheap handguns that he recommended were fine to him because he didn't shoot them.