Guns you will never shoot, what % of your collection?

[yeti]

I am incapable of keeping a NIB safe queen. I do enjoy owning them. I just enjoy shooting them much more.

Say you have a sexy wife..... ah nevermind.

 

[Watchdog]

I had no idea this would be such a hot topic. I find it very interesting the responses.

Not only is it a hot topic, it is...as you say...an interesting one.

Personally, I expect and demand a lot out of a handgun. I want to know how it will do with various types of ammunition at different distances. I need to know how it will do shooting double action and single action, shooting fast or slow. When I bring it up from a holster, will it naturally point? Stuff like that. That's why every gun I own gets a workout on a somewhat regular basis. The only exception is an almost pristine Model 25-7 that lives in its original box with original tools. The only reason it doesn't get shot is because I have another one just like it. It's the shooter, and what a little monster it is.

I've owned original vintage 1800s Trapdoor Springfields in 45-70 and shot them all. What a thrill it was to run that sight up to 300 yards and touch off a few rounds. There was almost no recoil cause the thing felt like it weighed 50 pounds. I couldn't imagine carrying one of them into battle, but apparently they were deadly, except for a tendency to overheat and jam the cartridge in the breech (the 7th Calvary found that out the hard way at Little Big Horn).

My bottom line point here is: Even vintage collectibles deserve to have a round or two fired from them, if for no other reason than to find out if they still work.

Even this old boy pictured here...shipped off to war in October of 1943...will get a 100-round workout at the range this week. And I fully expect him to perfom flawlessly, just as he has in past range workouts. I like working guns.

My guns I don't shoot? There's no such animal.

 

[Hansli]

0. Used to have some, but I'm really not a collector at heart...more of a short term custodian.

 

[mrrick]

0%.

I shoot them all, I sold off all my NIB unfired Winchester lever actions.

Smoke-um, if you got-um!