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collecting dust in the safe

mussmuss Member Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2004 in General Discussion
I was just reading a post where someone mentioned buying a new gun, although they have several they already don't shoot.

Got me thinking, I am picking up 2 ar-15's this afternoon. I already have a bunch of guns in the safe collecting the perverbial dust.

How many of you also have guns that have not been fired in awhile, I know my 1st gun, a Winchester 94 trapper in 32 win special has not bseen fired in 15 years, yet I hang on to it and would never sell it.

I do however, take them all out and wipe them down on occasions. I bet their are a lot of you that have guns stuffed in the back of the closet that are very nice, yet never used.

Go ahead fess up to it.

muss
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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    that what my post about how i am going to buy a K31.

    guns are meant to just sit in the safe too! [:D]

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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Yes i do but i wouldn't sell them for anything!





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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I lived in Kalif. I kept all the evil Black guns in the back of the safe. Now I keep all the old brown guns in the back and shoot the black guns all the time.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Which safe are we talking about ...
    ... the little one or the big one?
    (I have some of each in both)
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    If you really want to do something, you'll find a way ...
    ... If you don't, you'll find any excuse.
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • Doc FeelgoodDoc Feelgood Member Posts: 542 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think we have all realized this at one time or another. In my own case many times it is the newer guns that don't get fired nearly as much as some of the "old reliables". But ain't it fun to keep getting them?
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guilty as charged. [:D]


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  • eastwood44mageastwood44mag Member Posts: 2,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can never have too many guns.


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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What everyone above said,but they do get oiled down with CLP twice a yr.Its just nice to know their there,Ive got some Hi-Powered Rifles that some havent been shot in 5 or so yrs.But I may pick one of those next time I hit the woods?

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  • NwcidNwcid Member Posts: 10,674 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have worked hard on my collection to get what I wanted. Some havent been fired in awhile but I would never get rid of them. I have thought about it a couple of time but just cant do it. They all have a special place [:D]

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  • duckyducky Member Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I haven't shot my 77/22 in about 11-12 years but wouldn't think to part with it. It was the first gun I owned and coming from my father, it has more sentimental value than anything else in my collection.
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  • STRIPPER-TIPPERSTRIPPER-TIPPER Member Posts: 323 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    more than I care to admit. Hopefully when I am in NV next year I will have my own range handy. Yes there is a 12 step program-ONE GUN A MONTH! [;)]
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some of them have never been shot

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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this may sound odd to many, but there comes a time when im so sick of looking at or shooting guns, i need to get away and do something else to get my mind off them. yes, it can happen, especially if youre the kind of guy i am, that cleans every gun every time its shot. the dreaded cleaning that awaits me causes me to rethink if i reeeeealy want to shoot it, and most times, it goes back in the safe. so, ALL of my guns have dust on them! and like some said, some of my guns have NEVER been shot. of the hundreds of guns...i always seem to grab the same ones over and over and its the 45, the 22 and the 12ga skeet gun. all others just sit and act as tools for bragging rights to friends! i have literaly opened cases and forgot i owned some. even with them inventoried and prepped for long term deep sleep, i forgot they were around and ive felt like a kid finding his x-mas present early when i stumbled on to them. sorta like this..."who put this pidgeon model 12, 2 bbl factory skeet/trap set in my closet? ohhhh, it must have been santa!" this is dangerous, the wife could selling them and wouldnt know! hmmm......i better rethink this!!![:D]
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  • wdstclair1992wdstclair1992 Member Posts: 130 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All my black powder stuff does'nt get shot simply because I have'nt learned to load and shoot them yet [:p]
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  • mussmuss Member Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think these are the reasons that my wife claims that i do not "need" anymore guns, I don't understand her logic.

    When did buying a gun ever have anything to do with "need"?

    I am going hunting tomorrow, I think I will break out the T/C hawken and take it for a walk in the woods, just to air it out a little. Beside it kills deer just as well as the inline.

    muss
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  • CHGOTHNDERCHGOTHNDER Member Posts: 8,936 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I listed mine it would make a lot of people here sick.

    PJ

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