Round count on 4 sale guns

I probably have fewer than 300 rounds on my pistols. Who can afford to shoot? I have a thousand rounds or more of 9mm but saving for boogaloo.
sounds like you're building up a cache. maybe we need to red flag you...
 
I have many guns I have never shot. I have many I shot one time out after I got it. I have a couple I took to the range twice. Like almost all people there is that one gun we shoot well and had modified which goes to the range almost every single time. Too many men buy guns they don’t need. Same with women with shoes.

I've got a favorite I leave at home when I want to seriously work on my EDC skills. I'll end up spending more time and ammo with it than the one I trust with my life.

I can't imagine getting a new toy and not taking it out asap. Gotta make sure it shoots. Several hundred times at least!
 
well, we have some Plain-Jane AR's which we "put away" for bad times.
none have been shot. opened the boxes, made sure everything was there, then closed them.
 
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I have a select stable of guns that I rely on. Those have a lot of rounds through them. I wouldn’t even want to guess how many if I posted them.

Then I have back up guns that have very few rounds through them. I could reliably say most have 100 rounds or less through them.

Then I have a handful of guns I either picked up on a whim or they were picked up as a partial trade that I really didn’t have much interest in. Those may only have a few rounds through them.
 
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Shooting a gun is stupid. I prefer just collecting ammo.

In truth though, I don’t really track the rounds through any of mine. I can generally give a decent rough estimate though. But in truth, for most firearms it doesn’t really matter. Most firearms are designed to fire many many thousands of rounds before they start experiencing any issues. So I would consider most firearms with less than 1-2000 rounds through them like a modern car that has 5,000-10,000 miles on it. Not new, but not even scratching the real surface of its service life.

Most of what I look at is condition and whether or not the previous owner took care of it. Is there crane wobble from someone slinging the cylinder out? Is there an idiot mark on a 1911 from putting it back together? Does it look like it was oiled once, then carried for 10 years in a leaky trunk? These things matter more than the rounds down the barrel for me.


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Lots of people shoot a couple boxes or a couple mags out of a box and keep the rest for next time, or for SHTF or whatever, that never comes.

I have a handful of low count, too lazy to load for, not my favorite, and/or newish. Everything else is over a thousand, a few over 10k. I don't think I shoot much, but I've tried to get people to matches that couldn't seem to process 150-200 rounds required.
 
Purchased a new pistol 8-days ago. Been shooting, cleaning, testing, cleaning for the last 8-days. Just got to 443 rounds today. That is over 50-rounds a day. Only found two brands of ammo that the pistol does not like. Have not been able to find any hollow point ammo that it did not like. Have only had issues with foreign manufacturer's ammo.
 
I often find life to be cyclical. You either pig piling money and have no time, or too much time and not enough money.

In scenario 1, I have had periods where I acquired 8 guns before ever going to the range with them.

When I had a kid, had less money, spent fewer of my weekends working to be with family, including all my precious lead chucking nuggets, and shot 10k rounds in 3 months.

YMMV
 
Another thing when it comes to buying guns -- I don't mind wear, but do mind when I'm told LNIB and am presented a gun that's been around the block a few times. Never happened with people on this forum, but more than once on ArmsList.
 
I hate selling guns to a private party. I sold a Smith & Wesson 642 earlier this week and by the time the guy was done questioning me about it and handling it, I almost told him to just forget it I would sell it somewhere else. A $275 gun and it was more of a pain in the ash than it was worth.

Done with those types, especially the ones who want you to drive hours when you stipulated a local sale in your neighborhood.
I’d rather hacksaw my gun than sell to tire kickers and the like.
 
I don't have but one gun. I've only shot it one time. It was loud and scary and it hurt my hand so I don't shoot it anymore.

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On a serious note..@gunbelt and I were wondering where do you find ammo for such a fine firearm? We have guns and No ammo.
 
If I feel *meh* after shooting a few mags through a gun I'll throw it for sale so it's not necessarily BS.
Me too. I don't necessarily "collect" guns. They either get used or get sold. Sometimes it only takes a magazine or two (or a cylinder or two) for me to figure out that a gun isn't going to have a home with me.
 
I figure I'm more of a renter than an owner. I take possession of a gun and shoot it some. If I love it, I keep shooting it for a long time. If not, it was a short rental period and it goes to another renter.
 
Most of the time when I list a gun I do not list round count. Most of the time it is listed as New unfired by me, LNIB Like new in the box, VG, Good etc.... I find that pictures and then the actual gun speaks for itself in terms of condition and soundness. If you have a large enough collection I find that some guns get shot a lot more than others. Sometimes it is cycles of what you prefer. Sometimes it is time of year or a brand rabbit hole you are running down but if you have enough guns there are some that never seem to make it into the range bag as much as others. It is just human nature. I personally will often get something shoot it when I get is and either I fall in love with it and it goes into the usual rotation or it sits in the safe until something else catches my eye. Often these guns end up being LNIB.

Every now and then there is a gun whose round count am pretty sure off within 10 rounds give or take. Most of the time these guns are used in a specific role or for a specific purpose. For example every Glock 19 I current own has less than 250 rounds down the pipe. They were all purchased for one purpose. They all got 3 boxes of ball ammo and then a box of Speer 124 Gr Gold dots through them to test for function. They all then went into a get home back which were placed in cars. They have not been shot again. Those I might list as LNIB with less than 250 rounds down the pipe, by me. :)
 
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I think a lot of people don't have easy access to shoot regularly. For those people its buy it and go try it and if they like it, they sock it away in a drawer, safe, or carry rig. Back in my good ol gunsmith program days, it was essentially a swap meet everyday there. New guns coming in daily and we all would shoot a guys new to gun down at the range to "help them break it in":D. Once you know how it feels and shoots, then its just ready to serve the intended purpose. from my experience only those with easy access to a range and reasonably priced ammo can go out and blast away every week. once you've shot 100 rounds, you know if it does what you want how you want it. If not sell or trade it off with a low round count. That seemed to be the standard logic for most of the guys at that time. Man i miss those days. Some killer deals on stuff that just didnt fit a guy right.
 
I sold a Glock once. Told the buyer it had about 1500 through it, which was as accurate as I could be. He looked at me like I was handing him a turd and said something about it being worn out. That's why all used guns have 250 rounds through them. That one still had the factory grease in it when I bought it used.
 
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I own several different firearms. Typically only one of each type sees significant use, the rest stay in the safe.
 
I tend to believe it... I have a bunch of guns that are still brand new, unfired.
 
I sold a Glock once. Told the buyer it had about 1500 through it, which was as accurate as I could be. He looked at me like I was handing him a turd and said something about it being worn out. That's why all used guns have 250 rounds through them. That one still had the factory grease in it when I bought it used.

I am actually glad that he didn't take it...a Glock (or any decent modern pistol) with only 1,500 is barely worn in.
 
tried to get people to matches that couldn't seem to process 150-200 rounds required.
200 rounds used to be just a warm-up exercise for me on range days! lol.
Now I'm trying to be a little frugal with the rounds and pay more attention when I shoot....but I miss those 200-300 round days! They were a lot of fun.
 
200 rounds used to be just a warm-up exercise for me on range days! lol.
Now I'm trying to be a little frugal with the rounds and pay more attention when I shoot....but I miss those 200-300 round days! They were a lot of fun.

Some days we all just enjoy blasting away and enjoying recoil and boom boom...but as you are seeing sometimes 50 well controlled and careful rounds can be just as effective.
 
I have never kept track of the rounds I put through a gun. Even with the best of intentions I find myself shooting the snot out of the same 4-5.
 
I prefer guns that have never been fired, including at the factory. :cool:
 
I’ve met a lot of guys who own a gun or 2 but aren’t really gun people. They’ll take the gun out on their uncle’s land one time, realize it’s too loud for their uncovered ears and save the 37 bullets left in the one box of .45 they bought and never shoot the gun again. Then it goes up for sale when they find some other impulse buy they want.
 
I have several guns that I've never shot. I didn't intend to ever shoot them. Revolvers don't need to be "broken in"like most semi autos do. I would not trust carrying a jammamatic till I've shot at least 200 rounds without a hickup.. That's the main reason I went back to carrying a revolver as my EDC firearm.
 
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