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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.
 
zzzippper said:
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.
 
I'm kind of like Stainless, I have a couple that I've had a long time, that I haven't gotten to yet. I've been shooting, and have ammo, I've just taken other guns.
It is seldom that any gun I buy now, is what I consider a tool. Now, they're my play-purties.
 
My average would be skewed by the Mossberg 500 I bought in 1983 and didn't fire till 2011. Every other firearm would have been fired within days of purchase if not immediately on taking possession.
 
Depends on when I buy the gun. If it's cold weather I wait till it warms up. I'm getting too old to go out and get cold just to shoot a new gun. Warm weather? Generally no more than a week.
 
Usually as soon as i get home clean it and take it to the range. The longest ive gone after purchase was a week.
 
I have one that I inherited after my father passed away several years ago that I haven't shot and probably never will.

As for guns I have purchased myself, I have three that I haven't had to the range yet. All three are 22 magnums, a Henry pump rifle, a PMR-30, and a Heritage Rough Rider 9 shot revolver. Have had the revolver the longest, the Henry is the most recent purchase.
 
I've got milsurps I've never fired. I need to rejoin the shooting club I was in before my wife got sick. The county has a new range but it only goes to 200 yards. I cannot look a full-bore cartridge in the eye then put it in a rifle for that pitiful distance. Sure, I sight in at under 200 yards, but that's just to get me close left/right and to check the basic function. After that I like to shoot.
 
cussedemgun said:
Makes sense :) I often wondered who was shooting at those road side targets, you know, the ones disguised to look like street signs.
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Here is a true story/statement:::

I am over 60 years old. I started hunting very young and started driving a car in the summer after the 9th grade. I started shooting NRA Handgun Bullseye Competition about the same time. I have had some sort of GUN in my car since then...

The Truth is, I have NEVER, EVER, SHOT ANY ROAD/STREET/STOP/ SIGN, with a gun in my life. Never, ever...

Never have, Never will...

I was a Cub Scout, and a Boy Scout. I never even considered shooting a road sign....
 
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