How many of you keep a gun you will never use in the woods?

[deadwolf]

FFL for private party has been like a decade now, the 3day waiting period is about a year old now and the FFL (required in the decade old law already) is gonna follow the new 3 day rule.

Time to move : )


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It may happen eventually, esp. if the state keeps going the way its been going.

 

[LeftyWilbury]

sell the supergrade. especially since you have two 300 WSMs in the same rifle. that funds a new gun, or ammo, or just puts money in the bank. the only reason i regret selling any of my guns is that they'd be worth twice as much now compared to when i sold em! i need to clean up some guns and consign em. i even shoot some of em. they're just things.

 

[Maverick1]

I have a safe full of rifles my dad bought when he thought he was a collector, that I will never use.

And what happens to those rifles when you pass? Are you going to burden your offspring or family members by putting them in a similar situation? Pass down those safe rifles and leave them saying “I have a safe full of rifles from Dad/Uncle Bob”?

 

[Live_weighT34]

I don’t live in a whitetail state and my state is stingy on giving out doe pronghorn, doe mule deer & cow elk tags so I’m down to maybe one rifle/muzzleloader hunt each year so most of my guns don’t usually get out each year but man if I could do whitetail every year with some doe patrol I’d use every thing I have.

 

[dirtshooter]

I have a couple guns a few years old (pre covid) that haven't been shot yet. I have some that have been shot or used prior to myself buying it and haven't seen shot by myself. Lots of guns not a lot of time. A couple are for the kids when they get older so they'll get shot eventually.

 

[KenLee]

I’ve got a Rem 760 pump action in 30-06. I doubt it will get out very much. Maybe on a hunt where I want to shoot it for nostalgia and I don’t care about weight.

Yep they are heavy, but the extra weight and pump action helps to stay in the scope vs a bolt action.

 

[Lawnboi]

I have a hard time hanging onto firearms that don’t serve a purpose for me.

Lots of guys have safes full of rifles that they don’t even know if they are sighted in. I’d rather use that money for components, barrels, match fees, hunts or travel. But then my disposable income isn’t like some on here.

 

[MoeFaux]

I'll never own something that's too pretty to carry in the woods. I'm just too cheap to pay for fancy things that don't serve a function.

In a perfect world, every rifle in my safe would fill a niche and go afield regularly. As it is, I have two heirlooms that can never part with even if they don't serve a purpose, so I have to find special excuses to use them. . . like going out on an easy pig hunt just so I can carry the 1886 45-70 my grandpa left me.

That's going to get a LOT harder for me when my father's *extensive* arsenal eventually passes to me.

 

[Big Sexy]

Of all the firearms I have bought myself, there is only one I wouldn't get rid of. Its a 16 gauge Ithaca (I have a thing for them). I will never part with those that have been handed down. Everything else is on the table.

 

[Whitefox82]

When my father passed in 2017 I inherited his small collection, nothing of significant value but some were very sentimental to me and those were the ones I kept. I rarely take any hunting but a few get the nod here and there. I am saving his Sako A7 (25-06) for my 8 year old daughter. He bought that just before the cancer and took it deer hunting a few times but didn’t kill anything with it. It shoots amazing groups and i keep myself from taking it out because i want my daughter to be the first to kill something with it and officially make it hers. He died a month before she was born. It will be cool for her to carry “Grandpa Jimmys” gun.

 

[KenLee]

Winchester model 1887. Not purty, but the shells are so dern expensive. Haven't shot it in 10 yrs.

 

[SC HUNTER]

I said in my earlier post that if they don't have sentimental value they aren't safe around here....I have a fair sized safe slap full of sentimental guns. They'll never be sold as I got them when my father died, my brother has about the same number from Daddy, mostly shotguns but I did get a custom 260 back. I had it built about 10 or 12 years ago and my daddy shot it and "claimed it" I never cared because he liked it more than I did.

 

[tstowater]

I need another safe. I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Snowwolfe]

Owned a couple of double rifles that cost me upwards of $15,000 each. They all went hunting. One killed two moose and not only went on several boat hunts up the Koyukuk river and beyond but was also carried in a ATV rifle boot.
A rifle either hunts or its moved down the road.
However, I do not own any rifles that were passed down to me from a relative or friend. That could sway my opinion if I did.

 

[EastHumboldt]

Guns are tools. All my guns have been or will go in the woods. Except my home defense pump shotgun. I spose if I ever get suckered into bird hunting again I’ll use it. I have very few possessions that are kept for sentimental value.

 

[CaribooBC]

I need another safe. I'll just leave it at that.

I’m in the same situation…. And then I go and win a gun. LOL.

 

[RME]

That's going to get a LOT harder for me when my father's *extensive* arsenal eventually passes to me.

You may have already done this but having been through it myself without a plan, thinking ahead of time about what you may want to keep or let go can help make decisions a lot easier later.

 

[justinspicher]

Probably not. If I have anything that has been used much, it gets moved on. Hell, I delete contacts if I haven’t talked to them in a month.

 

[7RemMag]

Great Grandad’s Savage 99 in .300 Savage. It was taken into the woods back in PA a few times after being given to Dad and I by a Great Uncle. The first season we had it, Dad mounted a Leupold 3-9 and bought some Hornady Superformance factory ammo for it and proceeded to kill 3 deer(including a small buck) in less than 30 minutes with it. It came with me out to Wyoming but I doubt it’ll ever see much use. Its sentimental value is far too great to risk anything happening to it. I’d love to buy a different one some day to use once in a while. Once in a while I like to get it out and handle it in admiration.

Aside from heirloom type firearms though, I don’t see much sense in hanging on to a tool that can’t be used. I sometimes cringe a little the first few times a new rifle gets a scratch or scuff on the barrel or stock, but eventually there’s enough of them that it ceases to bother me. That’s what I bought it for, after all.