Guns you have never fired?!

[MMcfpd]

In my closet rests a NIB Tri-C Fox Wasp Carbine. I want to fire it, but since it's virgin and the only one I've ever heard of in captivity, I guess I'll just fret about it some more.

Everything else has to go BANG! every so often to retain residency rights.

 

[TheFringe]

A nice Russian SKS and Bushmaster AR-15 X15 M4 A3 (SEBR) have not been fired. (I did however get to fire my new FN SLP mark 1 12-gauge semi-auto today !)
I am a novice gun guy/collector, and have been acquiring guns only in the last year or so. Strangely enough, the only other gun I own that has never been shot is a Mossberg New Haven 250 semi-auto .22 rifle that my dad bought for me 35 years ago !

 

[skeeter1]

I dont know how its possible to have 9 unfired guns. I go strait from the gun store to the range.

Yup, that's pretty much the same way I am. If I bought it, I shoot it. Some get shot more often than others, but there are no virgins in my safe. I take propper care of all of them, but AFAIC, they were all meant to be shot.

 

[No_Brakes23]

I bought an 870 shortly before 9/11/01. Didn't get much of a chance to fire it until I got out of the Corps in 2005. Almost four years. Sure felt good to finally break it in.

For Christmas I got a K31, that I have not had a chance to fire. Can't wait to find a good range for it.

 

[bogie]

"Alot" is not a word.

Okay. I've got a cruiser-weight stock mauser-actioned (hence, probably just a varminter) vintage rifle with a straight-taper (i.e., none) big-ass barrel chambered in a 0.100 short .22PPC that I haven't fired yet. Trigger's a little light, so you've gotta be gentle. I've got bases for Kelbly rings.

Gimme two weeks of time with it, and I suspect that I could shoot pinks with most of y'all, and walk away happy.

With a "real" benchrest cruiser-weight rifle (i.e., custom action), it'd take a day or so.

Plan is to have it rechambered by a real 'smith to .220 Russian Lapua (with no neck turning - probably 0.271, maybe 0.270 for just a tad...), and use it for a 'dog gun.

Should I go into the NEXT safe queen?

 

[Frog48]

I've fired all I own.

 

[Valkman]

I have 3 or 4 C&R rifles I haven't shot, and a Savage .17HMR I shot once. My feet are bad and getting worse so some rifles need to go as I probably will never shoot them. Pistolas and the new Mossberg all get shot though!

 

[jrfoxx]

I have 2. One of them will be fired this weekend (I just bought it a few months ago, and found out when I went to test it out, that it needed a new spring).The other is an old Iver Johnson 38s&w 2nd model from 1908 (or so, no way to ever know exactly) that I feel is pretty unlikely to be safe to fire, or could be made safe, so....it sits in a display case as a curiousity (and i'm ok with that).

 

[Zen21Tao]

I have to hang my head in shame also. I have 8 handguns and 9 rifles that I haven't yet fired. As a really busy grad student I have just enough time to either go to the range and shoot or go and shop for new guns. I seem to keep convincing myself to do that latter. In part because the nearest public rifle range is a 45 minute drive while local gunstores are alot closer. :banghead:

 

[boredelmo]

Winchester 1200, Rossi snub, cz-52 (tried once, brittle firing pin i suspect), Ar-15.

And a whole host of hunting rifles/shotguns (13+) that my dad gave me.

I want to find private land to shoot at rather than a firing range. Boo Texas, boooo.

 

[Clipper]

I haven't shot my latest M-12 yet, but will within a couple of weeks (then again, my L.E. M-12 20ga only has about 15 rounds through it and I've had it 5 years...). And I have yet to bring my broomhandle Mauser back to shootable condition.

 

[logical]

I only have one I don't plan to ever shoot but I may change my mind depending on what happens with prices over the next few years....but I have 4 handguns and one rifle that I just haven't got to yet.

In my defense, the 4 handguns were all purchased in the last 6 weeks. And 3 of them are over 20 years old, NIB and I plan to shoot the crap out of them. I'm not much of a collector.

The rifle is a 10/22 that I bought for maybe $175 ten years ago because it was pretty, stainless with a grey/green laminated stock, Ruger logo sling. It had been fired I think but I just never think to take it to the range.

 

[Zach S]

I have three, but a very good excuse for every one of them.

Two are incomplete, and one was my grandfather's, my grandmother still has it.

 

[Hokkmike]

Not a one, I am happy to say.

 

[Trebor]

I've got a bunch of mil-surps from when I had my C&R I haven't shot yet. I'm getting to them slowly. When I do shoot new guns I like to take only new rifle to the range at a time so I can focus on getting it sighted in, fix any problems, etc. It's just when Mosin's and Mausers were so cheap it was easy to pick up more than I could shoot for awhile.

Now, all my handguns get shot promplty, even the C&R ones.

 

[Glockfan.45]

I have an heirloom 1911 that hasnt been fired by me. I dont think it has been fired at all in the last 50 years or so. I have guns that have been fired little since new. One of my ARs only has 100 rounds through it to function check. I bought a SKS a little while back ago that I am pretty sure was never issued as it is #'s matching and 100% like new. I put 10 rounds through it and put it away.

 

[JesseL]

I've got a Colt Pocket Navy cartridge conversion that was my Great Grandfather's which I've never shot.

Even if I could get 38 rimfire ammunition, I doubt I would ever shoot it.

 

[gunNoob]

I have never shot either of my rifles.....


just bought them yesterday!


They will be shot this coming weekend

 

[Langenator]

FN-49 (Century mix)
M1 Garand
Peter the Great Mosin M91
Yugo M59 (in cosmo)
CMP M1903A3 (cosmo)
2 USGI M1911A1s (need springs before I'll fire them)
Israeli Mauser

The last three will probably be safe queens/collection pieces forever. I figure they've paid their dues.

 

[obxned]

It hurts their feelings if you don't shoot them.

 

[phoglund]

I do indeed have several rifles I've not yet shot. I don't think I have any handguns I haven't shot yet though. Hopefully all the rifles I intend to shoot will get an opportunity this summer when I'll be spending more outdoors time.

 

[TIMC]

I have two that have never been out in the sun. A Mod 73 Rossi pump in .22mag I bought about 5 years ago. I don't know why I have never had it out just haven't got around to it yet. The other I probably will never fire, it is a 1903 Springfield rifle made by Remington in December of 1941 The rifle was only produced for 4 months before a design change was made on some of the parts. It was made in a proposed contract to supply the rifles to England when that contract fell through the rifles were kept in storage. My dad bought it after WWII for $25 brand new. The rifle has never been fired.

 

[MinScout]

Bought a Tikka T3 Lite 30-06 over a year ago that I have yet to fire. That's the only one. I mostly shoot leverguns, milsurps, or muzzleloaders. Modern-day bolt guns kind of bore me.

 

[stevekl]

I got a Swedish Mauser for Christmas 2004, but I didn't shoot it until January of this year.

 

[Impala]

I bought a remington 7400 30-06 with 22" barrel about two years ago from Wal-Mart and it has sat in a case since then. I'm currently trying to sell it but so far no takers. For some reason it scratched my itch back then, but right now I don't really have a need for it and the price of decent quality '06 ammo is getting ridiculous.