What is the average age of your rifles?

[Shawlerbrook]

Since I love to hunt, shoot and collect older leverguns, I would say average at least 50. Shot a doe a couple years ago with a Winchester 1894SRC made in 1906.

[405grain]

My oldest rifle is 126 years old, and my newest one I just finished building this Spring.

[Iron369]

I have a few old shotguns and a handgun around ww1 era, but the average would probably be about 6 years old. I bought a lot of evil black rifles when it was cheaper pre pandemic.

[wv109323]

What a thoughful question? I started thinking and I have not bought a new rifle for the last 10 years. The average age of my rifles is probably 40 years old.

[Geezer in NH]

For rifles firing cartridges, I have 15, average age is 72 years old. They range from 1862 to around 1999. None since 2000 came in.

[rintinglen]

My favorites all seem to be eligible for Social Security, but I have about a half dozen that range from 28 - 3 years old.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

I like old LE's 1900,1901,1902. So I guess about 100years.

[tdoor4570]

The youngest is about 5 years old and the oldest is 150 years old. Most of them avarage 50 to 100 years.

[charlie b]

If you count the ones I did not inherit, then I only have two and the oldest is 4yrs old. They each have over 3000 rounds through them.

The inherited one is 70.

Pistols are a little older. Purchased ones are 30 and 4. Inherited are 120 (yes, 1897) and 60.

Bought and sold many others over the years. The ones I have now I will keep.

[Kraschenbirn]

Not counting the .22s my average is around 80-85 years years. Haven't purchased a 'new' long gun in the last 20-25 years and the last second-hand was 10 years old when I got it 5 years ago.

Bill

[Rich/WIS]

Newest handgun is a RIA 1911 that was the donor frame for a Kimber conversion that was purchased two years ago, newest rifle a Ruger No 3 in 30/40 (1976 manufacture) purchased about 2 years ago. Oldest in the safe is a 1903A3 from early forties purchased 10-12 years ago from the CMP. Had a much larger collection that got thinned over the years, oldest was a 1894 Krag sporter.

[pworley1]

About 75 or 80.

[tazman]

Youngest is a few months old. Oldest is somewhere over 70. Most end to be 40 or more.

[rking22]

Probably about 80years or so. Newest would be a Kimber about 20 years old, oldest an 04 Winchester 22, or about 1925 for a Rem M25 32-20. I hunt and shoot with them all, but it seems the pre WWII ones get more outings. About the same with shotguns, handguns closer to 40 on average.

[fatelk]

I get a kick out of the way some people talk about gun age, usually on other forums and usually newbies. I occasionally see people talk about their '14 Taurus, or their '05 S&W, or '98 Remington, like they were cars and the year of manufacture actually mattered. I remember one guy asking if the "really old" gun he inherited was safe to fire, he thinks it's from the 1980s. The common ones are about "old ammo". It's at least ten years old- is it still safe to use??

More than once I've heard someone say that they would never buy a gun that didn't have current "factory support". As a longtime accumulator of the old and unusual, that's just such a foreign concept to me.

[jonp]

Interesting take on this. I had not thought of it but if you throw out the oldest and most recent I'd say 40yrs?

Newest is 10yrs or so, oldest 125yrs or more. Hard to pin down that Argentine 43 Spanish.

[sledgehammer001]

An average of mine: 66 years old. From a 1907 mfg 1894 Swede, to a 2016 AR15

[sharps4590]

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Lots of shotguns & handguns in an average rifle age thread...……… ( 'jes sayin' )

I know I listed a Manton double muzzleloader as my oldest however, where would you suggest I include my drillings, double rifle drillings, and combination firearms? 'jes askin'...

[444ttd]

i think, after checking every rifle in my head, its 79.8 years old.

[imashooter2]

My oldest rifle is a G33/40 bring back made in 1940.