I see ads in our classified section (and other places) that advertise as "unfired." Like an "unfired" model 27 or...?
So I started to wonder what 5 pistols/revolvers would you buy today to put away for a bunch of years so you could advertise them as 'unfired' and get a premium price in the future.
When I was young and in college, my cash flow usually forced me to sell one firearm to acquire another. It was never in the budget to preserve one.
As I got older, my cash flow improved.
I have never bought a firearm with the intention that it is going to make me money down the road
I just do not think that way
However today I do have many firearms that remain unfired since leaving the Factory . . . I do this for myself because it is cool or sometimes I do it for the preservation of an item (I am a lover of museums)
The six revolvers pictured above represent one of each variation of the 8 shot Model 27 that have ever been produced. All six have the same serial number with different prefixes. All 6 remain unfired since leaving the Factory. While today this set of six would bring several times what I paid for it, I created this set for myself.
Or I wonder how a gun could be purchased new and then never shot?
Easy, purchase two.
One to shoot and one to preserve.
The first run of the 8 shot 627s were on display at the 1997 SHOT Show in January. They were a Lew Horton Exclusive and LH had limited this to only 300 revolvers. I recall this because I wanted serial number 357 (I love serial numbers). I took number 27 instead. It is the revolver in the upper left corner of the image below. It arrived to me in June of 1997.
Since only 300 of the 8 shot revolvers were ever to be produced, I shot this one
I ended up getting a call from Lew Horton just a few months latter asking if I still wanted number 357. This Distributor Exclusive firearm turned out to be the fastest selling Exclusive Lew Horton ever offered. They had decided to run an additional 300 pieces.
Number 357 is in the upper right corner of that group photo and I received it in September of 1997 and that one remains unfired since leaving the Factory.
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Every year the graduating Class of the United States Military Academy commissions a class firearm. This can only be bought by members of the Graduating Class or Instructors. 2002 was the BiCentennial for the USMA.
As I said, I like serial numbers. I wanted #45, the problem was that the serial numbers would be starting with USMA2002 for the BiCentennial. So if I took USMA2045 it would actually be the 44th gun produced. The only solution was to take both USMA2045 and USMA2046. So I own both the number 45 and the 45th gun produced. Both remain unfired since leaving the Factory
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When COLT reintroduced the series 70 1911s, I grabbed serial #70. Obviously I like numbers
It remains unfired since leaving the Factory. I have lots of other 45ACP 1911 Colts that I shoot
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Introduced at the SHOT show in 1985
Production actually began on December 6th of 1984 starting off the AFN serial number prefix
Smith & Wesson selected 25 of the first day of production 649s between serial number 13 and 58 to be Class A+ engraved
This 649 is the 39th produced and wears some of the nicest African Elephant Ivories I have seen on a snubby
This firearm also remains unfired since leaving the Factory
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I have more unfired firearms with accompanying duplicates
