I'm sort of a collector, but when guns get too nice, they get expensive and too valuable to shoot. In other words...if I pay $800 for an almost unfired K frame of some sort, and if I put only 700-800 rounds through it, it's suddenly worth a couple hundred dollars less. Therefore, I'm not interested in guns like that.

I have guns in good to excellent condition. Some of the revolvers I have that I first thought were in near mint really aren't. On closer inspection, they're more like exc., and that's fine with me. I have no boxes or papers with any of my guns, and mint or LNIB guns most often do. It's nice having a few 98% guns, but even though they can be shot without denigrating condition, they don't get shot all the time. I was happy to get a fine shooting model 15 with about 70 or 65 percent finish recently. It's a gun that I literally don't fuss over, a true classic that I can actually carry around and shoot often like the old-timers back in the day.