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

[tombogan03884]

I have one that will always be a safe queen, if not a wall hanger. Of course, it is a 1835 percussion cap half-stock musket of dubious (as in no) safety to shoot. It was my late brother's, I got it from his estate. It ain't going anywhere except maybe on a wall someday with the podwer horn my great uncle made.

Two others I am selling just because they have become queens. The rest I need to get out and dust them off before it starts snowing. I think that's planned for next week up here, will keep you all posted.

Path, I REALLY hope you mean the shooting, not the snow.   

[red364]

Yeah, Ok, I'm guilty. I DO have a safe queen and its gonna stay one.
It's a stainless S&W 357 magnum, Washington State Law Enforcement Commemorative. It's never been shot and still sits in it's wood and etched glass box.  I have enough other ones to shoot, so its ok if it just sits there and looks good.   

[2HOW]

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 ?

PICK, PICK,PICK , give a guy a break. you must be single.

[MAUSERMAN]

I do have one safe queen. Its my grandpas S&W Victory model he brought home in 1945. That gun is locked away with his service papers and medals. That gun is but far my favortive piece of family history.

[Hazcat]

I have no  problem with heirloom safe queens but I cannot imagine buying one.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

PICK, PICK,PICK , give a guy a break. you must be single.

What EVER gave you THAT idea 

[Kid Shelleen]

I also confess to having a couple of safe queens, but, hey, they were bought as investments.

I have plenty of others to shoot and I don't always get around to all of them. All guns are good. I hope to get quite a few more and make it even harder to keep up.

[Texas_Bryan]

Every gun I've got was bought for a purpose.  I wish I had money for safe queens though.   Don't know if I could ever sell a gun I own, my Remington 700 .270 has been used by five of my ten little brothers to take a deer, my P220 was my old man's LE service pistol, my Remington 870 Express was my first gun purchase at the age of twelve, and my LE issue Mini doesn't have as much personal and family history but its the only carbine I got.  Maybe when I'm able to collect a wider collection I'll be able to comprehend selling a gun.

Should we declare all heirloom safe queens forgiven?  I still think that they deserve to get shot every once and a while though.

[tombogan03884]

Every gun I've got was bought for a purpose.  I wish I had money for safe queens though.  Don't know if I could ever sell a gun I own, my Remington 700 .270 has been used by five of my ten little brothers to take a deer, my P220 was my old man's LE service pistol, my Remington 870 Express was my first gun purchase at the age of twelve, and my LE issue Mini doesn't have as much personal and family history but its the only carbine I got.  Maybe when I'm able to collect a wider collection I'll be able to comprehend selling a gun.

Should we declare all heirloom safe queens forgiven?  I still think that they deserve to get shot every once and a while though.

OK, Heirlooms, Investments (gun stuff went up while the stock market went down) Hard to find ammo or no longer safe (Yes TAB, I'm letting you off the hook).
Another category of safe queen is the one that has no real "Meaning" for you, beyond you like it, but it just doesn't get shot any more, those are the ones that should probably get sold to buy ammo for the ones you DO shoot.

[fightingquaker13]

OK, Heirlooms, Investments (gun stuff went up while the stock market went down) Hard to find ammo or no longer safe (Yes TAB, I'm letting you off the hook).
Another category of safe queen is the one that has no real "Meaning" for you, beyond you like it, but it just doesn't get shot any more, those are the ones that should probably get sold to buy ammo for the ones you DO shoot.

And shockingly, Tom and I agree 100%. I lost out on a sweet unfired AYA #2 at a gun show because the private dealer would only take cash and he wanted six bills (on a 3K shot gun). By the time I made it to an ATM and back with the extra hundred (I only had 5 in cash) someone else had bought it. That gun was meant to be bought and traded. I wouldn't have shot it, hell I would have probably traded it before I left the show. Like wise I will inheirit my great grandads damascus Webley. I won't sell it and won't shoot it either (I value my my life). Beyond this though, they might as well be airsoft if you don't shoot them.
FQ13