Firearms you don't use.

[ezypikns]

I have a small collection of handguns. Some I shoot all the time, others rarely. Do you keep all of yours, or periodically sell those you don't shoot? I'm not speaking here of valuable collectors pieces.
Of course, the only reason to sell a firearm is to finance the purchase of another....that you may or may not use.

 

[hceptj]

i have some that i would never sell...some i won't shoot (hopefully worth more some day)...and yes, if i buy something and don't shoot it as much as i thought i would, i usually sell them...

 

[sierrabravo45]

About 98% of them. I have a bunch of guns in boxes in safes. I really shoot a few 1911's a ton, a couple of varmint guns and then the stuff thats .375+. Everything else just sits there, but they don't talk back to me, they don't eat anything, and since they look pretty there is no point to sell them.

 

[tnieto2004]

The more the better .. cant have too many IMO ..

since your close (i'm from houston) I'll take all your old ones of your hands!!

 

[10-Ring]

I have done that in the past...but suddenly find myself & my collection at a place where there is nothing I don't shoot on a regular basis...good or bad, I'm enjoying all my guns right now

 

[3rdpig]

I've got a couple of guns that haven't fired a shot in 10 years. I recently sold one that I'd bought about 25 years ago that never fired a shot. The majority of my guns get shot at least once a year, and the guns I rely on for my self defense get shot at least twice a month.

Some people might say I've got too many guns, I'd prefer to say that I just don't get enough range time.

 

[bear71]

"but they don't talk back to me, they don't eat anything, and since they look pretty there is no point to sell them."

Sounds alot like my wife! Except for the first two bits of criteria, that is.

 

[grizz5675]

safe queens

I have an old spanish crucero 32 cal that i dont use because i need parts :know where i can get some parts for it?

 

[LoneCoon]

I haven't fired my Mosin Nagant but once since I bought it. I can't find any lead core bullets to shoot at the local range.

 

[Cybrludite]

Lonecoon,

Try Wolf Gold/Privi Partizan for good lead core 7.62x54R. My Nagant Gas Seal doesn't get shot very often. Mainly because it's over $.60 a shot for FMJ target rounds, that is when I can even find ammo for it.

 

[Glockfan.45]

I have a Yugo SKS that I shot one time since buying it. I just dont much care for it to be honest. Bought it sight unseen and having never seen one in person, picked it up (found out it was arsenal new, unfired), shot about 30 rounds through it,........ahem, sigh. Nothing wrong with it persay, it came in great condition and is accurate enough for a 7.62 commie gun. I bought it because it was cheap, also to say I have an SKS. I wouldnt bother selling it because as cheap as I bought it for I wouldnt get much out of it, plus I have two other guns in the same caliber so why not have one more I guess.

 

[1911 guy]

All shooters.

Right now everything I have gets shot to one extent or another. Handguns, a lot. Centerfire rifle, not so much anymore. There was a point, however, when I was a member of the "Gun A Month" club and had accumulated dozens of long guns. I sold most of them to finance our wedding, some of which had never been shot.

 

[chris in va]

If I don't like something and it's not a 'collectors' item, I sell it. No sense in keeping something in the safe that just takes up space when someone else can use it.

For example...
XD9
CZ 40P
Ruger 22/45 (two)

One thing I will say, don't sell your holsters!

 

[CWL]

I typically only shoot 3-4 of my guns regularly (out of 26). These are the ones I would most likely go to for SD needs. The rest I just own because I like them. I own guns because I like to, not really for investment purposes. It's also a real PITA if I have to clean too many guns after a shoot.

 

[mgh]

I used to sell the ones I didn't shoot too often, or those that annoyed me - like a Colt Mustang .380 that jammed. Or a Smith Model 10 that didn't quite fit my hand. Now, years later, I regret selling them and decided never to sell another. And I keep buying. Oh well.

 

[carebear]

3rdpig,

Some people might say I've got too many guns, I'd prefer to say that I just don't get enough range time.

That's a sig line right there.

 

[HammerBite]

It can be a good thing to have a lot of safe queens.

Every once in a while I get the urge for a new gun. After having succumbed to that urge a few times I've gotten to the point where, instead of pillaging my wallet, I can rummage in the safe and find something I've not touched in a couple of years. It is fun to get reaquainted with guns I forgot I had.

 

[RyanM]

I have only one I don't shoot. Working on selling it.

 

[tubeshooter]

I don't sell just because I don't shoot it much; gotta be more than that.

If I have decided it can't fulfill the function I want it to, or if it starts acting funky, that's different. And sell-for-another or trades (rare for me), that doesn't even hardly count in my book. But outright sell just so it can see use with someone? Nah!


I'm glad to have every one I got. "Safe queens" too.

 

[Juna]

I don't have enough guns YET to have any safe queens. I shoot 'em all.

 

[Texas Colt]

Many of my Colts are safe queens. I have my favorite guns that I use: Colt Trooper 357, .45 Colt Commander, and a 38 Colt Cobra. The rest are an investment of sorts - it's what my sons will inherit someday. No cash - just guns and ammo!

 

[Stinger]

Guns you don't shoot...blasphemy!

 

[cdsdss]

Interesting this thread should pop up now. I just sold three guns because I never shoot them. My EAA Witness 10mm was too hard to find ammunition for; my Walther P5 was too big for easy concealed carry and too low-capacity for its size and weight; and my Browning Practical, while nice, was uncomfortable to shoot.

I didn't want to part with them, but with a Sig and two Walthers that I regularly use there didn't seem any reason to hang on to guns I didn't shoot.

Especially when I could sell them and buy a gun I would shoot.

 

[outofbattery]

Sadly,I have a couple dozen I rarely shoot.I really don't have much interest in shooting Mil Surps but like collecting them and have only shot my AR's once in the past year.There are also about a dozen handguns that I rarely shoot anymore for various reasons,mainly pistols I got as possible CCW's that seemed good in the store but didn't work out or at least didn't do better than the 1991 G19 they might've replaced. I've got over the 1911 bug and haven't taken most of the revolvers out in a while either but as long as I have to room for them and with the pessimistic view of them not being any cheaper or more available in the long term future,might as well hold on to them all and continue to try to justify even more.

 

[brentwal]

Sell guns.








NEVER!