Hi! I'm Letfreedomring and I have a problem....

[Letfreedomring]

I shoot everything I buy! Scrolling thru the classifieds and I see 'never been shot' more often than not. Not sure if we just have a majority of BS artists out there or if I'm just the odd man out and must shoot everything I own. How do you guys do it (resist shooting the latest find)? Maybe I'm weak or have nonexistent self control or maybe just too small of a stockpile. Tell me ya'lls secret to resist popping cherries on your stashes. Maybe point to the twelve-step program for it...

 

[conditionzero]

I shoot everything, sometimes only a box, sometimes many thousand lol. The only time I have gotten and never fired was with the intention of selling as new.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I'm guilty of that. I'd say I have more guns that I haven't shot than those I have. Some of them I acquired because I just like the nostalgia, they way they look or maybe something else about them.

Sometimes I buy something I think I'll like and wind up not liking it so I don't shoot it.

I'm not really a collector...I'm more of an acquirer.

 

[rockchalk06]

I think it's more impulse purchases with regrets. That or folks buy carry and never shoot the thing once.

 

[rhart]

About the only guns I haven't shot at least a few times are one antique cowboy gun not really safe to shoot and can't find ammo anyway, one old German Mauser still packed with cosmoline, and a 2nd Gen Colt Navy black Powder (which I may shoot some day) and same with a 3rd Gen Colt BP 1862 Navy. Oh yeah, I used to have an original 1851 Colt Navy that was unshootable once.

 

[Rez Exelon]

I probably fall most into the collector bucket ... I'd shoot more but I don't have time like some folks seem to. If I lived outside the city I could probably find more but I'm deep in the heart of the city.

 

[Bocephus123]

I shoot everything I buy! Scrolling thru the classifieds and I see 'never been shot' more often than not. Not sure if we just have a majority of BS artists out there or if I'm just the odd man out and must shoot everything I own. How do you guys do it (resist shooting the latest find)? Maybe I'm weak or have nonexistent self control or maybe just too small of a stockpile. Tell me ya'lls secret to resist popping cherries on your stashes. Maybe point to the twelve-step program for it...

i only relay that if that's how its presented to me and i sell before i get a chance to shoot it!!

 

[clintbailey]

I have some that I haven't shot very much, but I have shot all of them at least some. I guess if I ever came across a "true collectors piece" I might not shoot it, but the way I figure, there are very few actual "unfired" guns, if nothing but factory test firings but at least that has happened usually

 

[Firpo]

Lots of reasons would be my guess. Some here I suspect are running a gun business on the side and just flip them, others fall on hard times and need the cash while others don’t know what “unfired” really looks like. Lightly used and NIB are not the same thing.

 

[xseler]

I've only got two that I haven't shot....

1) A Marlin Model 60 Special Edition that still has the stickers and hang tags on it. Was made in 1978 and that's when I got it.

2) An old single shot 12ga, Damascus twist barrel for use with BP shells with a broken stock that was 'repaired' with some kind of hardened tape --- that's how it came to me 55 years ago. Frankly, I'm scared of it!!