Firearms You Have Never Fired?

[akdad]

I have a 458wm i haven't got around to shooting just because we don't have that many rouge elephants in Mt. and I have a 6.5 for those anyway.

 

[LRNut]

I have some high grade shotguns that I have never fired; they sit on a rack that is built into my bookshelf in my TR in AZ. Rifles and pistols on the other hand, all get fired.

 

[Bravo 4]

I have one that my wife got me for Christmas 6 or 8 years ago, it's an 1851 Navy .36 cal revolver. When she handed me the present to unwrap she said "I got you something you'd never buy yourself." and man was she right. It was a neat gift that I stuck in the safe and have never even taken out of the box, still in the plastic.

I understand why guys do it, but I'm not a collector by any means. I don't even have very many. If it doesn't get used it goes down the road. Guns are tools, and I have my general purpose crescent wrench and I have a few "mission specific" sockets, pry bar, & even a sledgehammer.

 

[Greatgrandad]

I have one that my wife got me for Christmas 6 or 8 years ago, it's an 1851 Navy .36 cal revolver. When she handed me the present to unwrap she said "I got you something you'd never buy yourself." and man was she right. It was a neat gift that I stuck in the safe and have never even taken out of the box, still in the plastic.

I understand why guys do it, but I'm not a collector by any means. I don't even have very many. If it doesn't get used it goes down the road. Guns are tools, and I have my general purpose crescent wrench and I have a few "mission specific" sockets, pry bar, & even a sledgehammer.

While I agree firearms are tools and I use many of them, I have also found they have been decent investments, and some of those, like my Class III F/A's, have been extraordinary investments. Some people collect and/or have hobbies in autos, boats, racing, art, airplanes, figurines, jewelry, glass ware, etc, etc, and mine is firearms/shooting/handloading.

 

[akdad]

This is a bit different but here is a win94 that came out of a river. It's less than 5 digit sn too!! It was in a VERY remote location by any standards. Can you imagine the stories???!

 

[birddog 68]

I bought a 7-08 browning a month ago and just finished putting a scope on it. Does that count?
I do have a beretta shotgun that I bought a year ago and have only moved it around in the safe.

 

[Straight Shooter]

NIB Freedom Arms Premier Grade in .475 Linebaugh, gifted by my stepdaughter. I do open the safe and drool on it occasionally.

Keeping it NIB…….hopefully, it will be a good investment for her future! memtb

Also, leave her some money to pay for counseling for the revolver when she inherits it because it suffered so many years of misuse and neglect. And you will go to your grave saying "I have never fired a .475 Linebaugh". Man, do I feel sorry for you. St. Peter might not let you in.

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

Yeap saving them for my retirement years. At least that's my excuse.

 

[Brathany]

Shoot them. If you don't, you'll die and some Billy Jack will have all the fun with it.

 

[comfisherman]

Worse than that your kids or grandkids will sell them for 15 cents on the dollar to buy an x box....

 

[Rumup]

I bought a 338 win mag back in July and have been able to pick it up yet looking like I'll be in that area of the country September of 2026

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

Worse than that your kids or grandkids will sell them for 15 cents on the dollar to buy an x box....

I don't have any kids. Not in my future either. No significant other either. My brothers would end up with them. I better get busy, I suppose. lol

 

[Varmint Hunter]

I'm a hunter and a shooter but definitely not a collector. Every firearm that I've owned has been shot, some more than others but they all get shot. If anything, I shoot them too much. Every year I'm replacing a few custom barrels or buying new guns to replace a few older guns that got put on the auction block.
I can't even imagine have a fine rifle or handgun and just looking at it for years.

 

[Brathany]

Funny ish story:
6yrs ago a childhood friend came to me to sell his unfired Colt Python from the 80s. Kept in a display box. I remember oogling over it when we were young. His dad never shot it and died. Prices for these were going crazy high 6-8K because of the Walking Dead show.

I learned how to tell if a Colt revolver had been fired outside the factory, every other cylinder is fired, not all of them. So, I look at the cylinders. Yup, every other one had the slightest of etching in cylinder from the test/proof firing.

I tell him what we can get for it, and he's all excited. So, he brings it back after a few days and says, "I just had to shoot it before selling it…"

He said he shot 6 times just to do it. Each shot cost him $400-500 reduction off the "NIB Unfired" condition.