No safe queens for me... how about you?

[odyssey1]

As nice as it is to pull the guns out of the safe from time to time when I can't make it to the range, I just can't imagine not truly appreciating a firearm without shooting it.  To me, it's like owning a sports car but never driving it.

If shooting a gun depreciates the value in any way, I'm not really concerned because all of my toys go to my kids anyway when my time comes.  I traded enough guns when I began the sport and have regretted every single one of them.

How do you feel?

[Michael Bane]

Amen!

I spend far too much money on custom blasters, then shoot them until they get wear marks. That's what ther're for!

Michael B

[tombogan03884]

No point in owning one if you can't shoot it  

[ericire12]

A Glock in the hand is worth two in the safe!





*I actually do own a safe queen.... it is a beat to hell, Colt wheel gun that has about 10% of its Chrome finish still on it. I have never shot the gun and probably never will because I have never been able to find a box of ammo for it for less then $35 (.38 S&W). I just cant see paying that much just to say that I have shot it. It is a family gun that I will someday pass on. Until that day comes it will remain a bottom dweller in my safe.

**Oh, and I do have a black powder new army revolver that was my grandfather's. It has only been to the range once (after he died), and it will some day be passed on also. I wont fire it either because I hate black powder....... It is such a pain in the butt that it takes all the fun out of shooting for me.

[tombogan03884]

A Glock in the hand is worth two in the safe!





*I actually do own a safe queen.... it is a beat to hell, Colt wheel gun that has about 10% of its stainless steel finish still on it. I have never shot the gun and probably never will because I have never been able to find a box of ammo for it for less then $35 (.38 S&W). I just cant see paying that much just to say that I have shot it. It is a family gun that I will someday pass on. Until that day comes it will remain a bottom dweller in my safe.

Stainless steel is a material, not a finish, are you sure you don't mean chrome, which is a plating and CAN be worn off ?

[Sponsor]

[ericire12]

Stainless steel is a material, not a finish, are you sure you don't mean chrome, which is a plating and CAN be worn off ?

Sure, why not

[tombogan03884]

If it's that worn is it SAFE to shoot with modern ammo ?

[ericire12]

If it's that worn is it SAFE to shoot with modern ammo ?

It looks like it would be.

[fightingquaker13]

+100! Why own a car you can't drive or a gun you can't shoot? Why did you buy it in the first place? There are actually idiots out there who pay big bucks for "collectible" bottles of wine from famous years andwould never think of drinking it. For all they know it could be full of Mad Dog, and might as well be for all the good it does them. I shoot the heck out of my greatgrandad's Parker. Its an irreplaceable family heirloom. Someday it will break and I probably won't be able to get it fixed. So what? What good is it if its not shot? Everything comes with an expiration date, including us. If you don't use it before then, you're missing the point.
FQ13

[jnevis]

I have to admit there are three rifles, a shotgun, and a pistol in my safe that DO NOT move.  Mind you they are mostly the wife's from her mother and she will NOT part with them.  The rifles are 22s that haven't been out in about 5 years but may head out eventually.  The shotgun is a rusty old Mossberg 500 kept for the same reason.  I firmly believe it is beyond economical repair but she won't get rid of it.  The remaining rifle and the pistol are 22s for the kids to learn on.  The oldest has graduated from the Single Six to an M&P9/1911 and AR and the youngest isn't QUITE ready to go to the range so they sit.  The rest get pulled out when I get a chance.