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Boy my Dad is. Buys all manner of guns and never fires a-one of em.
I don't know if I can call him a queen..besides, he's 83 and I'm still scared of him.. he's probably more of a collector as he'll buy pretty much anything that catches his fancy.
Regardless, after he buys a gun it goes straight into the safe practically to never be seen again.
 
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Boy my Dad is. Buys all manner of guns and never fires a-one of em.
I don't know if I can call him a queen..besides, he's 83 and I'm still scared of him.. he's probably more of a collector as he'll buy pretty much anything that catches his fancy.
Regardless, after he buys a gun it goes straight into the safe practically to never be seen again.
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Every.
Single.
One.
Gets.
Shot.

Thats why I dont buy collector pieces. Now, in all fairness, some get shot more than others, but every single one comes out for at least two range sessions a year.
So...Safe Princesses, maybe?
 
I am, but not particularly by choice.

I don't really have the funds to be a "collector" so most of my purchases fit a specific niche...CCW, Small CCW, competition, hunting. I hope, in time, to get to the point I can "collect". Even my CZ fetish is based on utility for the most part. I buy one to use, then I buy one to compliment it or replace it.

The guns I have that don't get shot much isn't really because of some desire not to shoot them, but because I don't have the time to hit the range every week and blast away. So when I go, I am pretty selective of taking only what I feel I need to stay proficient with. Carry guns, competition pieces, stuff like that. My "fun" guns would/will get shot more eventually when I have time/access to a range.

To add to that...when @NoNameHaveI takes me shooting he always has more awesome toys than I do, so I end up wanting to shoot his stuff instead!
 
I have some guns that I haven't shot. They were Grail guns for me and I have their dupes that are the same frames and calibers that I shoot the snot out of. I try to keep my handgun inventory at no more than 100. Right now I am over.
While I shoot everyday, I tend to shoot the same things. G26s and G43s. I have no personal pride in any of those things and so I tend to shoot what I carry daily.
 
B00ger said:
I am, but not particularly by choice.

I don't really have the funds to be a "collector" so most of my purchases fit a specific niche...CCW, Small CCW, competition, hunting. I hope, in time, to get to the point I can "collect". Even my CZ fetish is based on utility for the most part. I buy one to use, then I buy one to compliment it or replace it.

The guns I have that don't get shot much isn't really because of some desire not to shoot them, but because I don't have the time to hit the range every week and blast away. So when I go, I am pretty selective of taking only what I feel I need to stay proficient with. Carry guns, competition pieces, stuff like that. My "fun" guns would/will get shot more eventually when I have time/access to a range.

To add to that...when @NoNameHaveI takes me shooting he always has more awesome toys than I do, so I end up wanting to shoot his stuff instead!
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We need to do that again soon!:D
 
I've probably traded off 100+ guns, my children's first 22's and my first gun (870 20g) will always be in the safe.
I don't keep many guns, if I don't shoot them, I don't see a reason to keep them and trade them off. I usually will always have a good bolt gun, a semi auto or 2 maybe 3. And 2-3 pistols. Is all I keep and most get shot Everytime I go.
 
Just two unfired C&R used because I have little time, sks and garand, going to fix this problem shortly.:)
 
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Nah. I shoot a lot, and I have high expectations for the function and quality of the guns I have. I currently don't have anything I'd consider "collector's" pieces and honestly I'm fine with that. Money is a finite resource, and I want to use it on things I can use. With the exception of my family heirloom trap shotgun and my dad's childhood hunting shotgun, anything I don't shoot regularly gets sold. And even still, if I have multiple guns that fit the same role, after a while I start deciding to sell the lesser of those guns. As a result, each gun I have has a different application, and they all get shot in a method that fits their intended application. :)
 
I only have 3 that don't get shot. A mauser that my great uncle brought back from WW2, A pump action 22 that belonged to my grandfather, and a musket that my father built. I don't shoot the mauser because it has a field repair in the stock, that while I'm almost certainly sure is safe, I don't want to risk damaging it. The 22 needs a little work, and the musket? I don't shoot it because black powder is a bear to clean. I did kill my first buck with that one, so I'm hanging on it to it.

Everything else I own gets shot some. I've got my favorites that make it out to the range at least once a month, and others that might only come out once or twice in a year. The SKS I got as a kid, for example. I'll shoot it once a year, but the rest of the time it just hangs out in the safe. Its not match accurate, the trigger kinda sucks, but its a nice rifle that will hit what you point it at. If the prices ever get crazy high for them, I may sell it, and the 3000+ rounds of Norinco steel core ammo I have for it. I've sold all of my semi auto pistols except for a 22, both of my carry guns, and the Luger that my great uncle brought back from WW2. (and once or twice a year, I do shoot the luger) I don't care much for bottom feeders. I'm a revolver guy.

I've got a few somewhat collectible revolvers. I shoot the snot out of them. Bought a first year 686-1 from a collector a few years ago. Broke his heart to hear that I shoot it, and shoot it often. One day I hope to buy a collector's unfired Colt python... so I can also shoot the snot out of it.

If I have anything I don't shoot for more than a year or so, It gets sold. Need to make room in the safes, and there's no reason to keep something if its not useful to me. If I just want to look at a pretty gun, I've got google for that.

I look at owning a gun and not shooting it the same way I look at marrying a girl and then sleeping in separate beds to preserve her purity. You're only preserving it for her next husband.
 
I think this is probably worse than apples and oranges and yet maybe a reasonable question...Do you have knives that you don't cut anything with?
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I think this is probably worse than apples and oranges and yet maybe a reasonable question...Do you have knives that you don't cut anything with?
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Good one...my knives earn their keep...but I do have a few bayonets that have not yet had the opportunity to exercise their full functionality;)
 
RedneckFur said:
I only have 3 that don't get shot. A mauser that my great uncle brought back from WW2.
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One my son's friend's is bringing a bring back Mauser to the range to shoot tomorrow. He's jazzed.
 
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Reading through this thread has made me need to correct myself.

When I read the OP, my mind instinctively went to handguns because that is 99% of what I buy/sell/trade for the past few years. And my original reply still holds true in regards to handguns.

However, long guns are a little different. I have a couple of SBR's, a PCC, an AR, a bolt .22, and a 20 ga shotgun that I shoot regularly.
The rest of my long guns, while I have fired them before (some many, many times), have migrated to the back of the safe because they are either 1) family heirlooms 2) of a sufficient caliber/gauge that they irritate a rotator cuff injury.
There are eleven such firearms, and even though I no longer shoot them or hunt with them, I won't sell or trade them. That will be my sons decision after I'm gone.
 
I buy on impulse. I know I don’t really need it, but I don’t care I have got to have it if it trips my trigger. Most are never shot and I get rid of them after 5-10 years of looking at them. I still have the first shotgun I bought in 1965 from my uncle.
 
No, just a regular queen. I don't fit in the safe.

But seriously, I don't shoot every gun I buy because some get traded before I get the chance but the intent is to shoot them.
 
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I have sold all my beauty rarely touched guns. A few old timers that will not get shot or used. They have sentimental value only. I like guns I can use and not worry if it gets a nick.
 
I have an innate collector's mentality. I am not a hoarder. I like a clean house... But, I have always collected things. When I was a kid it was comic books and action figures. I wanted every comic I could get my hands on. When I was a young unmarried adult, it was memories of sexual conquests. I wanted every woman I could get my hands on. Now, as a settled happily married husband and father, it is guns... I know it's silly, but I literally want one of everything (not one of each firearm type... One of each model of each make in each caliber). I have probably picked up ten guns in the last year... If I made more money I would buy one every week or one every day.

I did trade one gun away this year. That's the only gun I have ever sold or traded away. I don't want to get rid of any more. I want to keep them all... Like a dragon with a great horde of gold (but guns)...
 
I will buy a gun and have fun with it......however i get bored with some. I will let them sit around for a while until i decide to trade or sell. Ive got one for sale now that i havent shot in 5 years or so. I have a couple more to get rid of too...... In recent years there has been so much cool stuff come out and i cant afford it all! So.......buy sell trade it is. I guess this makes me an enthusiast???
 
You mean you can actually shoot them? o_O
 
I only have one gun that I do not shoot regularly, a Stainless Para 1911. A good friend gave it to me some years ago. I loaned him some money when he got laid off, two weeks after his son was born, and he and his lady was falling on hard times FAST. I told him that there was no time limit on paying me back, just whenever he could, wether that be months or years. He did, in full, within about eight months, along with a Para that his friend built for me that worked there at Para before they moved. I know it's nothing collectable, but it meant a lot to me for him to do that, so it stays no matter what. It gets shot about twice a year, cleaned up, and put back in the safe with all the Glocks, lol. I swear I can hear it screaming every now and again.

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Have one gun that Ive never shot, a Ruger 9mm that I won at a NRA banquet and was the best option on the list.
Ive got other 9mm that I love and just never gave it a chance. Its been about 2 years now.
 
I am the world s worst, I buy with the intentions of shooting it, but in truth I shoot three or 4 guns regularly, the rest are in safes , it actually to the point where its becoming a problem, three safes full, I'm borrowing room in a couple of friends safes , and can't bring myself to sell even one, worse yet I can't stop buying them.
 
S4f said:
I am the world s worst, I buy with the intentions of shooting it, but in truth I shoot three or 4 guns regularly, the rest are in safes , it actually to the point where its becoming a problem, three safes full, I'm borrowing room in a couple of friends safes , and can't bring myself to sell even one, worse yet I can't stop buying them.
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I'll solve both problems for you. I'll get 'em shot AND store them, all without charge. :D
 
Jeppo said:
I'll solve both problems for you. I'll get 'em shot AND store them, all without charge. :D
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To sweeten the deal, I'll even provide free pickup up service if you bring 'em to the Hickory show next weekend. ;)
 
Jeppo said:
To sweeten the deal, I'll even provide free pickup up service if you bring 'em to the Hickory show next weekend. ;)
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Thanks for the offer, but you won't have time to shoot them either, you'll be reading the books I sent you.
They should arrive Monday
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I have their dupes that are the same frames and calibers that I shoot the snot out of.
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This is my method too. Have copies that are shooters, have the mint/unfired stuff for show & tell. Even then I don't gravitate to pretty just for pretty purposes, but if I come across the pretty deal I am not above vanity. :D

My Dad..God love him..I tell him to spend every bit of my inheritance. I'll be ok..go out and have fun. You earned it. So if he wants to spend it all on safe guns then so be it. And at 83 some of his guns, even if he wanted to go shooting he'd never shoot them anyway. Magnum handguns, 30 cal rifles and such.
He does shoot once a year. Takes his Bersa Thunder 380 and qualifies to keep his leosa privileges.
 
fieldgrade said:
If I own a gun that doesn't get shot, or carried and shot, it gets sold.
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For some reason I'm surprised by this. I guess in my mind FG is a collector of fine guns and Ford's.

I'm fine with buying a gun and not shooting it. I haven't done it yet but I'm ok with it.
 
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S4f said:
Thanks for the offer, but you won't have time to shoot them either, you'll be reading the books I sent you.
They should arrive Monday
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Thanks again for the gift. Actually, given my shooting abilities, shooting while reading might improve my results. :eek:
 
If I don't use it, or it doesn't have a specific purpose, it gets sold. I do have a bit of the pack rat/hoarder mentality, but coupled with finite resources & a long list of guns that I still "need", I just can't keep them all. Fortunately, I've gotten much better at choosing what I'll actually use/enjoy, vs. neato, gee-whiz stuff that just doesn't work for me.

Now that I have pretty much all of the carry/SD/HD/hunting "tool" gun roles filled, I can focus on the guns that I want, even if many of them are actually really only range toys. I'll never be the collector that some of y'all are, but I do have a steadily growing population of single action revolvers & leverguns. They may never take any game or put the Black Bart Gang in the ground, but damned if I don't enjoy shooting the wee out of 'em.
 
I'm too impulsive to shoot everything I've bought.

For example, last month I was convinced I needed an AK. So I bought one. It was traded away, unshot by me, within a couple weeks.
 
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