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% of Guns used for Target

Mr. LoboMr. Lobo Member Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in General Discussion
I thought it would be interesting to see what percentage of your collection has never been shot at anything alive.For me it probably about 80%. I enjoy hunting but don't get much opportunity for local hunting in Calif. anymore. I do enjoy going to the range on the weekends.Jim
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm probably about 80%, too. I do hunt a lot, but my hand just seems to go to certain guns when I hunt, A-5 for ducks and geese, 94 or Blackhawk for deer, Stoeger SXS .410 for rabbits, Win 62 for squirrels, just old partners that I enjoy on the hunt. Don't think I ever killed anything but porcupines with my 10/22. Most everything else I have has been just plinking around, though the Single-Six has taken a few Porkies and a snowshoe hare or two, since I wear it while I'm logging.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Everyone in our family is a pretty avid hunter, so it's probably closer to 50%.....
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Sorta splits by type.Rifles - 25% never get to shoot anything but paper.Shotguns - 20% have never dropped a feather or tumbled a rabbit.Pistols - 77% only shoot paper (or steel)
    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Probably about 80% have not been fired at a living thing, although about 90% do or have gone for walks in the woods with me.
    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'd have to say near 5% or less, I've shot animals with everyone except my two being built. Both half stock hawken rifles, one in .54 cal and the other in .50 with a sabbot twist. But with the good Lord willin, I plan to change that also.
    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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  • BlokeyBlokey Member Posts: 284 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Of my collection, I only shoot one gun (a Colt 1991A1), so the percentage used is 2%.However, this gun is used 100% for shooting at paper targets (I don't hunt, nor have I used it for self defense, YET).
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Well, any and all of my military rifles, other than the ones I bought new in wrappers, could have shot at something alive (a person). I don't hunt, my dad did though doesn't any more. Of his guns, perhaps 5 were ever used in the field. All the rest of our collection- about 55 in all- is just for target use.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    81% of mine have never been used by myself to hunt with. I have 31. That doesnt mean the ones I've used have ever hit a live target though, as it seems some of them have never seen a live target to shoot at.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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