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How long on average between the date you purchase a gun and the day you first shoot it.

It used to be that when I bought a gun I'd be chomping at the bit until I could shoot it. Now-a-days it might be months before I shoot the latest acquisition…just depends on my schedule and when I have time to go do it.

So…what stage of the game are you in? Shoot immediately? Acquire and shoot when you have time?
 
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ASAP!

I just got a new rifle on Saturday and am goin to shoot it tomorrow for the first time. It's been killin me to wait this long, lol!

I have a buddy who got a new 10/22 in October (:eek:) and has yet to shoot it. That is starting to bug me quite a bit. I have offered free scope and rings even! He's always moaning and groaning, "wife and kids...blah blah blah" like that's some sort of excuse. :D
 
When I bought my first two CZs many years ago, I went a year or so before I got a chance to take them out to a ranch in South Dakota and shoot them. Next time I bought a gun, a Model 60, it was a day or two. Since then, it probably averages a week or two.
 
I'll usually take a new gun right out into the back field and put some rounds through it when I get it home, but that's not always the case. I've got a new Mossberg SPX930 that's been sitting in the safe for a couple of years waiting to be shot, and an AR-7 that's been waiting at least 6 or 7 months. I'll get around to them one of these days.
 
In my younger days, any new purchase would be test fired within the week. Once it was raining hard enough I shot it out the truck window. Now there are several in the safe that have not been tested.
 
To me a gun is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. When I buy one its to do a jopb, and like most tools its a useless paperweight until I learn to use it, so I tend to start getting familiar and efficient with a gun, and any other tool, as soon as possible.
 
It depends if it was bought as a shooter or a as looker.I have a pre 29 I bought 2 years ago that I haven't shot yet.Nothing as tedious as trying to clean a cylinder face [emoji1]
 
Normally I fire a long gun (new or used) the day I get it. When I lived in the city/burb area the gun club I belonged to was only a mile from my house. SOP was the gun was fired before I went home.

As far as handguns here in the people’s republic of NY, it’s normally a couple weeks before I can take the gun from the FFL shop.:( ALL purchases have to be signed by a judge or in some more relaxed counties a designated “pistol permit clerk” In my county only the judge signs the “purchase coupon”. Our judge only signs once every week.

The sheriff’s department drops off paperwork and also picks up signed coupons and puts them in the mail. As I have a nice safe range at my house out in the boonies’ normally will fire the gun once I get home unless too dark, then that the next day.
 
I usually shoot within a week of purchase.
 
NYlakesider said:
As far as handguns here in the people’s republic of NY, it’s normally a couple weeks before I can take the gun from the FFL shop.:( ALL purchases have to be signed by a judge or in some more relaxed counties a designated “pistol permit clerk” In my county only the judge signs the “purchase coupon”. Our judge only signs once every week.

The sheriff’s department drops off paperwork and also picks up signed coupons and puts them in the mail.
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Geeze, I can't understand how y'all can stand to live in those communist, anti-constitution states...:mad:
 
I have several that I have never fired. If it is intended to be a "shooter" I will usually fire it within a week or so, unless it is a caliber I don't already load for. I seem to have an aversion to factory ammo and load about everything I shoot.
 
Our range was closed for more than six months after a ND wounded himself. I have such a backlog of guns to shoot it is stupid. In my first range session this year I shot three new handguns and one rifle. I'm planning my next session at a range I'm hoping to join and I'll be taking three more new handguns. It would be four but I always have to leave room for my wife's Ruger Mk II.
 
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Our range was closed for more than six months after a ND wounded himself. I have such a backlog of guns to shoot it is stupid. In my first range session this year I shot three new handguns and one rifle. I'm planning my next session at a range I'm hoping to join and I'll be taking three more new handguns. It would be four but I always have to leave room for my wife's Ruger Mk II.
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I hear all this talk of "ranges" and "range time"...I feel sorry for y'all. If I want to shoot I just step out my front door. I can safely "reach out" up to 100 yds without leaving the property...:D:D:D
 
I used to shoot them right away, now it's apt to be months or even a year or two! But they all get shot eventually. If you want to talk about the ones that have only been to the range once, that's a whole 'nother story! Schedule just doesn't allow it these days. I run pin shoots for the local club and it seems that all my range time is spent on them.
Right now I bet I have a half dozen or more that I haven't shot yet.
 
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