Shoot your Safe Queen Club

Mark_Mark

Mark_Mark

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Anybody want to start a “Shoot the Safe Queen Club”?

Value don’t matter, Just sometimes you said I would probably never shoot.

reason: I been a budding collector for about a year. And seen many fine estate guns that the heirs don’t want and they have never been shot or shot once and Safe Queen.
 
My avatar is now a safe queen, but I did shoot it when I first got it. I put one magazine through it, just so I could say I HAD shot it. It wasn't a virgin anyway. Les sent it to a gun writer who put 200 rounds through it. So now it rests, in honored glory, entombed in a hiding place known but to God...

But if Mark Mark ever shows up at my door, it will be disinterred and...
 
I have a lot of safe queens. It didn't start out that way. I used to shoot them all. A few are vintage Winchester shotguns. Family generational guns. Then the government banned steel shot, so those don't get used anymore. Then I had some vintage Winchester lever guns. Not a lot of practical use for those where I live now, so they don't get used. I used to shoot Service rifle with a WWII M1 Garand, but I finally moved to a National Match AR, so now the M1 doesn't get used. I bought a CMP 1911 knowing I would never shoot it. I recently shot it and the M1 in a vintage 2-gun match. Once I started shooting 2-gun, and once I started hunting caribou, that was it for most of the guns in my house. Of all the guns I own, I shoot two on a weekly basis, one about quarterly, and a fourth seasonally. Everything else collects dust. They'll be on craigslist the day after my funeral for an absolute song. You can probably pay with GameStop gift cards.
 
You know, come to think of it, this is a lot like those "one long gun, one pistol, one knife" teotwawki type topics.

Basically, just dispose of all of your safe queens and there's your answer to that question as well.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
I have a lot of safe queens. It didn't start out that way. I used to shoot them all. A few are vintage Winchester shotguns. Family generational guns. Then the government banned steel shot, so those don't get used anymore. Then I had some vintage Winchester lever guns. Not a lot of practical use for those where I live now, so they don't get used. I used to shoot Service rifle with a WWII M1 Garand, but I finally moved to a National Match AR, so now the M1 doesn't get used. I bought a CMP 1911 knowing I would never shoot it. I recently shot it and the M1 in a vintage 2-gun match. Once I started shooting 2-gun, and once I started hunting caribou, that was it for most of the guns in my house. Of all the guns I own, I shoot two on a weekly basis, one about quarterly, and a fourth seasonally. Everything else collects dust. They'll be on craigslist the day after my funeral for an absolute song. You can probably pay with GameStop gift cards.
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current generation Seattle King Country is very anti-gun. But not there/them parents and certainly not their/them GrandParents. So their/them heir’s dump these family treasures at pawn shops or turn them in to the police. Guns that the Man treasured and loved… Shame really, LETS SHOOT THEM, before the kids dump them
 
This type 14 Nambu I consider to be the highest conditioned type 14 on the planet It is a 99+ % gun and the inside of the thing looks like the magazine, gooped with cosmoline. It has never been fired after leaving the factory. The gun was made in Nov. 1935. It makes my equally unfired C-96 look ugly. It is the equal of a T-series Hi-power, as far as fit and finish are concerned. Can't find any ammo so I couldn't shoot it if I wanted to.
 

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tark said:
My avatar is now a safe queen, but I did shoot it when I first got it. I put one magazine through it, just so I could say I HAD shot it. It wasn't a virgin anyway. Les sent it to a gun writer who put 200 rounds through it. So now it rests, in honored glory, entombed in a hiding place known but to God...

But if Mark Mark ever shows up at my door, it will be disinterred and...
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been looking at a Les Baer Rolo Stinger, at my local reloading shop, gun has been there for at lease 6 years. Those guns just keep going up in price
 
tark said:
This type 14 Nambu I consider to be the highest conditioned type 14 on the planet It is a 99+ % gun and the inside of the thing looks like the magazine, gooped with cosmoline. The gun was made in Nov. 1935. It makes my unfired C-96 look ugly. It is the equal of a T-series Hi-power, as far as fit and finish are concerned. Can't find any ammo so I couldn't shoot it if I wanted to.
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Match that bad boy up with a Arasaka and a ninja sword!

if you found ammo, would you fire it?
 
J-Bar said:
I acquired this potential queen at yesterday's gunshow; a 1963 Model 15-2 Combat Masterpiece, fired but not much, with original box, tools, and papers. Picture shows oil streaks on the frame. The bluing is flawless. I shot it today (10 shot group of wadcutters at 10 yards). Virgins make me nervous.

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now we are talking!!!! Good 4 you!!!

Welcome to the “Shoot the Safe Queen” Club!

Got this about 6-8 months ago! probably from the late 30’s! I loaded up about 400 wadcutter. Ready to finally shoot it after 90 years of sitting in a box!

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J-Bar said:
I acquired this potential queen at yesterday's gunshow; a 1963 Model 15-2 Combat Masterpiece, fired but not much, with original box, tools, and papers. Picture shows oil streaks on the frame. The bluing is flawless. I shot it today (10 shot group of wadcutters at 10 yards). Virgins make me nervous.

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Here's a 15-4, never fired safe queen. Not long ago shot my 15-3 unfired safe queen...
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I have some “for looking at guns”, the older I get the closer I am to not caring if they lose value. Sure would suck to find out they were all I wanted to shoot now though and I missed out on decades of use.

Some of the really old ones have been avoided in the name of safety, they turned into “wall hangers” but I appreciate old craftsmanship more than paintings or pictures.
 
I don't have NEARLY enough money for safe queens, but I do have one or two that don't get shot very much. I took the BREN 2 out to the line two weeks ago, and I think that was the first time it had been out in well over a year.
 
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