how many people lend their guns

[DOEBOY1]

i have this thing about lending tools, guns and the like. my wife told me i was stingy. it seems that the majority of the time the lent item comes back broke or in pieces if it ever comes back at all. i have had a few thing come back as " most have been broke before i got it cause when i used it it just fell apart". now how often have you used a tool and it just fall apart. if i broke it i know i broke it. not saying that i haven't broke someone elses things but i have always called and told them and replaced them at better than average condition if not new condition. just an example when dewalt came out with the 18 volt drill/driver i had to have one. was working on my basement when a friend call to see what i was doing. i told him about my new drill and he asked if he could use it for a day to drill something i can't remember now. i said sure well 3 weeks later i was wondering where my drill was and he told me it was down at the shed below his house and that he didn't have time to bring it to me anytime soon. so i went to his shed and looked in all the usual places i would have put it. no drill. walk around to the back of the shop and quess what i find laying partially submerged in a mud hole. still worked but now ugly and unclean. never lent him another thing ever. if i ever lend anything i have to see how their tools look and get three references from upstanding citizens. just kidding about the three references. my may be stingy but i have alot of tools

 

[m1gunner]

Someone a long time ago told me "if you need it bad enough to borrow it, you need it bad enough to buy it".

I took it to heart years ago, and it still works today.

 

[Muley Gil]

I've lent guns to folks and I've borrowed guns as well. Never had one come back in bad shape and I've always cleaned the ones I've borrowed.

A lot depends on WHO does the borrowing!

 

[redlevel]

My nephew has a Ruger three-screw .45 Blackhawk of mine in his safe now. He borrowed it to deer hunt with in the Fall. He told me a couple of weeks ago he had cleaned it and would bring it back. I told him to just keep it in his safe. I'll probably wind up giving it to him in a few years, and I decided to let him keep it as part of my "dispersal" plan, so that I wouldn't lose all my guns in one fire or burglary.

 

[feralmerril]

I lent a revolver once to a friend and it saved him from getting worked over by several guys, if not killed. Another time I lent a shotgun and it came back unbelivably rusty!
I dont know why I am such a easy touch. I never had the nerve to ask to borrow anything from anybody in my life

 

[DeathGrip]

My Dad always said to "remember the address on that" I wish he'd remember the address on my stuff.He even swiped 2 top-loader 4speeds.Oh well what ya gonna do?He's no spring chicken.
Most other people I've had bad luck with lending things to.
My guns?Nope.To much risk outside of family.

D.G.

 

[m657]

Had a buddy borrow a nice Savage 99 carbine in 308....took it hunting, had to call to get it back....discovered a barrel bulge...."Oh that"...."slipped in a snow bank & when I shot it it sounded funny"....

 

[7tenz]

Loaned a Beretta 22 target pistol to a friend who was interested in trying one out. Eventually I owed him for some work and he accepted it for compensation.

Loaned a marlin 22 rifle to the Boy Scouts coupla years in a row few years back. The father who borrowed it eventually dropped out and haven't loaned it again. Never had any problem in either case.

Other loans have been to family members, but it often went both ways. We would sometimes lose track of who had what. I got a 22 Revelation (Mossberg) back and when I cleaned the bolt it started to misfire. Had a broken firing pin. Worked fine dirty. Don't know who broke it, might have been me.

 

[VMI77]

Lend a gun-No chance. Too many bad things could happen.
But I don't mind helping someone out with other tools if I have them. Just the other day, my neighbor returned my posthole digger, which I loaned to him for a short backyard patio project about 15 years ago...

 

[Out West]

One time. The fool took the gun apart and could not get it back together. To his credit, he took it to a gunsmith to be reassembled. However, I don't think I'll be lending again.

Out West

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

A Marine Reservist I knew years ago-a mechanic said he made people leave their ID card when they wanted to borrow tools. Never had a problem. I have lent-and borrowed-guns at the range, that's as far as I go.

 

[Smokin' Iron]

I would loan a hammer or a garden hose, but a firearm....no way. I am always happy to let a friend try one of my guns in my presence, but never loan. The same goes for reloading. To help someone get started in reloading is a good thing, but reloading for someone else is courting trouble.

 

[pinduck]

No I don't loan guns or tools and I have never borrowed one. Firmly believe in buying what I need

 

[Tom M]

Any of my friends are welcome to use anything I have, except a firearm. On the range, if someone wants to shoot one of my guns, even a stranger, that's fine. I'll even pop for the ammo. But I'd never let one of my guns out of my sight.

 

[bkp3gen]

My dad told me when I was pretty young there were 2 things he never loaned......his wife and his guns.....I guess it stuck with me.

 

[SPC]

I've lent guns while I was out at the range, but I always get 'em back at the end of the day. No chance would I let someone take one of my guns home unless they bought it.

 

[Class III]

About four years ago several of us were on a duck/goose hunting trip in Canada. Well, if I'm going 1700 miles to hunt I'm bringing a backup gun with me. One of the guys with us was bragging on how indestrucible his Benelli SBE II is. HONEST, the next shot he took the gun broke and the trigger assembly fell out in his hands in three pieces. He asked if I had my backup shotgun with me. I told him it (A Remington 870 3-1/2") was in the case in the back seat of the Yukon, about a half mile walk there, half mile back. It was a really nasty day, raining, hunting in cut over pea fields. When we were done for the day and finished picking up all the decoys we made the hour drive back to the hotel. I asked the braggert to get the 870 out of the case so that he could wipe it down with oil to get the rain water off of it. He told me "It's your gun, I left it out in the field next to where you were sitting". I drove back out to the field to get the shotgun he left laying in a mud puddle. Guess who had to spend the last three days of the hunting trip throwing rocks at the birds???

Class III

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Very poor form.

 

[jeffrey]

Depends on who is asking. In the past, I have routinely lent guns to a friend who used them to teach women's shooting classes, because I thought that it was a good idea for women to shoot. I have borrowed guns from this same friend, to qualify in CCW in calibers that I don't own (yet). I certainly wouldn't lend a gun to someone I didn't know really well. Probably because of the potential liability as much as the fear of damage to, or loss of, the gun.

 

[kritter]

lent out a gun once, and only once... a browning BPS 10 gauge , to my brother...for goose hunting...beautiful gun.....fancy wood, 28 inch vent rib......handled really nice for such a large gun... got it back a month later.. with it's new 16-1/2 inch barrel ( he explained that he had to cut it off behind where the barrel was split... he said that ,he had fallen down the river bank and that the gun had gotten "away from him", but he had cleaned "most" of the mud out of the barrel before he shot it, but.... it just blew up when he shot it.... but now it make a great house gun...
I've explain to him.... 16-1/2 is a little too short to be legal, So now ,it's sitting in the back of the safe..... (without a barrel) untill I run across one at a price he can afford.

So NO... never lend out guns anymore....