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View Poll Results: How many rifles do you have you have never shot?

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    398 45.54%
  • 2 or less

    156 17.85%
  • 3-5

    116 13.27%
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Thread: How many rifles do you have you've never shot?

  1. #141
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    encore 223 and encore308, a 32 pistol and a 40cal pistol.
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    I have 5 Swede carbines, 6 Swede 96's, and about 120 Finn Mosins that I've not fired....

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    Since I've gotten rid of my 12 guage shotgun (a greener) I don't have any weapons that I haven't fired. I always get ammo of some type when I get a new rifle/pistol so I can go out and fire it as soon as I get home with it. The 12 guage is the only thing I haven't fired but it's been sold now so I can't count it.

    I'm definitely NOT a collector of unfired weapons. My reasoning is why have a weapon that I cannot fire. I guess even if I had a collector Colt .45 in unfired condition, I would remedy that in a hurry. I won't own a weapon I cannot use/fire.

    If anyone wants their weapon fired, just send them to me and I will assure you they will be fired and fired often. BC
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    Seems interesting to me that the top answer is "0"....by almost twice as many as the next highest which is 110!....Hopefully those Interested in rifles will sometime buy and shoot some!..

    Terry

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    I bought a Remington 770 in .243 win. over a year ago. My first brand new rifle was to be properly broken in, cleaned with a tipton cleaning rod and lucas bore guide. By time I gathered all the perfect gun care equipment, it was too cold to spend an entire day breaking it in. By spring there were two more "new to me" guns that didn't need such special considerations. They got all the attention because all I had to do was shoot and clean. Kinda feel silly about it now, it's going to the range tomorrow and get all the TLC it deserved for so long.

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    Good Thing they don't get Jealous

    And the answer is -3 - weapons I have but not shot. But please excuse me; I feel the need to explain WHY.

    My first for fun rifle was a Mosin-Nagant 31/90 from 1943; I picked the Mosin for the cost, and utility. To be sure in the beginning I thought it was junk, and my shoulder worried about the next expedition to the range. After trying small pillows and a sissy pad reloading was the solution; a tamer load and the tall demon lurking in my closet was easier to get along with.

    But then these I have not shot: one 91/30 to mount a scope; another Mosin -Finn model for quality plus I liked the way it looked; and another Mosin original style '91 models for a wallhanger. I may need one more with an octagon barrel.

    The Original Post made me think about how many I have not shot, my lack of ambition or excuses. Knowing they don't get jealous or bored, may be the reason I can afford them??

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    I'll admit to not shooting some in almost 30 years but I used to shoot them.

    That darn little 03's stock is just too short to fit me and my face is right up on the back of the receiver instead of down on the wrist of ths stock. Fattens up my lip pretty good after about 5 shots or so. The little Browning .22 is too small, too. Just not comfortable to shoot (though it doesn't kick like the 03 Springfield).

    There's a Winchester 1917 upstairs in the attic somewhere I haven't seen in years. I gotta find that one and check it out before getting it into the safe. The others that were in the attic looked fine when I put them in the safe earlier this year.

    I haven't shot my father-in-laws rifles since 1980 but that's just because I deer hunted with my own rifles (03A4 some days and M1A other days). I'll probably be passing one of his .22 rifles to my nephew's son when he gets old enough.

    The longest I ever went after buying a new rifle before I fired it was last year there was about 6 months between when I built my AR15 in .300 Black Out and when I finally got the dies to reload the brass/bullets I'd bought.

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    I have ONE that I haven't shot yet... but it's not shootable until I replace the buggered-up barrel on it. Once that's done, I'll shoot it, so... none for me.

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    Seems interesting to me that the top answer is "0"....by almost twice as many as the next highest which is 110!....Hopefully those Interested in rifles will sometime buy and shoot some!..
    Ah, but don't assume "0" means I don't own rifles, I do, and shoot them all! Maybe not often, but they do go to the range.
    In all, the .41 Magnum would be one of my top choices for an all-around handgun if I were allowed to have only one. - Bart Skelton

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    I have a bubba terni carcano carbine I have no enbloc clips for. And a swiss vetterli that still has an unmodified bolt. Could not pass up the vetterli.
    one clip and a little mod work to a bolt and every thing goes bang.

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    thats easy. one antique rimfire 25 cal my great great grandfather smithed. Don't have boolits fer it or i would have to try it.
    Our house is protected by the Good Lord and a gun and you might meet them both if you show up here not welcome son!

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    used to have a metric F ton figuratively speaking but over the past couple years I have thinned out the heard. As much as I think firearms are some of the most beautiful functioning works of art conceived and constructed by the hand of man, I have come to the point in my life that I realized I didnt want to be a collector. Turning over the $$$ made from the sales into more components for reloading, and to outfit the guns I kept

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    None.

    I'm not one to have commemorative firearms, and certainly can't afford scarce high value collector type rifles. What I have gets fired, but I have my favorites.

    Shiloh
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    Zero. I see no point in owning one if I won't use it. I do worry about damaging some of my high end o/u shotguns when I shoot them. But they still get used.


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    I have a rifle I shot once. It was the end of a 2 day 700 round match. It was the last stage. My rifle was in a rack in front of me. There were just a couple more shotgun targets to finish off. My shotgun which had not yet missed a beat slam-fired on me and I shot my rifle. It was a cowboy match. I used to pride myself on saying I don’t alter my guns, I can’t say that anymore. But I can still say I shoot my guns stock, since it was the stock of the rifle that took the shotgun blast. And I’ll bet I’ve shot more guns than you have, because I’ve shot one. It took a while to get a new stock and I used that rifle with a leather strap holding the stock together for a few matches before I could get it fixed. The rifle is a Uberti .44 Special ’73 carbine.

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    None ...

    Have never bought factory loaded ammo for 9,3x62, 9,3x74R, .376 Steyr, .416 Aagard, .416 Rigby, .458 AccRel, and .470 Nitro Express ... but I shoot'm (with cast boolits too)!

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    Poor college kid here, one rifle (.35 remington 336) that has been shot many times.

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    20 years ago, I inherited an 1873 Trapdoor rifle in .45-70. It has a hole in the right side of the buttstock. Before he died, I asked my great-uncle where the hole came from.

    When he was six years old in 1911, he was behind his father on a horse as his country-doctor father was riding to a farm house to doctor a woman near Paden, OK.

    They met a man on the road who hailed his father and urgently asked him to come to his house to see his sick wife. The doctor asked what was wrong with her and got a response indicating she wasn't sicker than the woman he was going to see (triage, before it was called triage).

    Uncle Bart's father said he would be over to the second man's farm after he treated the first woman. A brief argument ensued with the second man over who he would respond to first.
    The second man fired a shotgun and killed their horse out from under Uncle Bart and his father.

    Bart told me that after the fight, they doctored the first woman, then went to the second man's home and doctored his wife as well. His father got a replacement horse from the second man. One piece of buckshot is still in the buttstock of the Springfield.

    Bart was a rounder, daily carried a nickeled Colt Pocket Model .25 ACP well into his 90's. I have it, too.

    I have fired the Trapdoor with a load of 55 grains of FFg and a 405 grain cast boolit, years ago.

    Now it just hangs around as a memento with a great family story. My youngest son has laid claim to it when I'm done with it.

    John

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    I voted "none" and believed that true until I read 44fanatic's post about the old Ithaca. I forgot about one I picked up, an old Ithaca double 12 bore, at a local auction a month or two ago and haven't fired it yet. But that's only because I don't have any BP 12 bore shells loaded.
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    For me it is none. Always loved to shoot, fish and hunt.
    Although having the time to do something may have a bit to do with some others not shooting what they have. This all takes time.
    My advise is to Keep those shooters yet not used. That way when you get to retire [I hate that word] You can clean them up and and use them. Not having to buy them over later in life.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
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