To pretty to shoot, do you have one?
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Scuba_Steve
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I have a newly aquired lightly used Ed Brown that I've only shot once. Partly because I don't feel I am at a level where I canl notice the quality and partly because of the price.
I will get over that and once I have more experience with my other 1911's it will be included in a normal rotation, I'm just not ready for it yet.
I will get over that and once I have more experience with my other 1911's it will be included in a normal rotation, I'm just not ready for it yet.
hardluk1
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I own nothing i well not take to the woods or carry. But then again I quess I have no fancy firearms.
I'm in no position financially to purchase a wall hanger, and I don't see the purpose of buying a "pretty gun" just to stick in the safe. If I had the means, maybe I would consider buying something to put over the mantle in my McMansion, but I think my shooting needs would come first. And I would also consider buying a gun I thought might significantly increase in value over time, for investment purposes, and never shoot it. And even if a rare antique gun were to come into my possesion through inheritance, I might put it aside, if it had extreme sentimental value.
But, as none of those things are likely to occur anytime in the forseeable future, then my original post still stands.
But, as none of those things are likely to occur anytime in the forseeable future, then my original post still stands.
unless you are a collector, and shooting it is likely going to destroy the value...or the gun its self..........no gun is too nice to shoot.
to me, owning a fine firearm, and not shooting it.....it like owing a Ferrari, and never driving it........kind of pointless.
to me, owning a fine firearm, and not shooting it.....it like owing a Ferrari, and never driving it........kind of pointless.
Hardtarget
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In 1966 I worked fpr Sears. I was in package pick up...where a 16 year old should be. Someone had ordered a Win. '94"classic". Beautiful wood, octogan barrel. rifle...not carbine length. It came in late (for Christmas) and the customer refused it. I called my dad about it he came to the store to see it...and bought the rifle.
I could NOT understand why we never shot that rifle! It was killing me! Then I recieved it for Christmas the next year..
Then "I got it". He wanted to give me a new...unfired...rifle. Let me say it didn't remain unfired very long after that. 
So, no. I don't have any that are too pretty to shoot.
Mark
I could NOT understand why we never shot that rifle! It was killing me! Then I recieved it for Christmas the next year..
Then "I got it". He wanted to give me a new...unfired...rifle. Let me say it didn't remain unfired very long after that. So, no. I don't have any that are too pretty to shoot.
Mark
WhistlinDixie
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My dad has a 1980s Belgium Browning Hi Power that has never been removed from the oiled plastic. He says we'll shoot it one day.
Not quite, but close.
My granddad's 1890 Winchester .22 short only, that my great granddad bought for him in the 1920s. I shot it extensively as a kid. Now it's getting a bit rickety. It gets taken out occasionally, but not much any more.
My dad's Remington Model 10 Trap Grade. Same thing, I enjoy breaking a few birds with it now and then, but its too fragile to use too much. Parts are made of unobtanium.
My granddad's 1890 Winchester .22 short only, that my great granddad bought for him in the 1920s. I shot it extensively as a kid. Now it's getting a bit rickety. It gets taken out occasionally, but not much any more.
My dad's Remington Model 10 Trap Grade. Same thing, I enjoy breaking a few birds with it now and then, but its too fragile to use too much. Parts are made of unobtanium.
nebraska_farmer
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I don't own any firearm too pretty to shoot, I hate the idea and I don't believe in it. I'm not a collector, I don't own a museum, I'm a workin' man that doesn't have a lot of money and I use what I own!
Zach S
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None here.
I stay away from the guns that would be to pretty to shoot, for two reasons. One, they're out of my budget, and two, I'll shoot them. They wont end up looking like my 9mm AR, but they'd get range time.
If I had the first little british car that Carroll Shelby stuffed a small block ford in in, I'd still drive it to work every now and then.
I stay away from the guns that would be to pretty to shoot, for two reasons. One, they're out of my budget, and two, I'll shoot them. They wont end up looking like my 9mm AR, but they'd get range time.
If I had the first little british car that Carroll Shelby stuffed a small block ford in in, I'd still drive it to work every now and then.
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