Why not? One is a Mosin I got when they were stupid cheap, and I got more than one, so I didn’t need to do anything with this one but stick it in the safe. Another was a handmedown .22lr that I just don’t have a particular use for, and the final is a Walther .22lr pistol I got to do inexpensive shooting with but ended up getting an AA conversion upper for a Glock shortly after as a gift and I barely use either one, I just shoot less centerfire instead
I remember when the answer “Many” would have blown my mind. Like, how can you get a new gun and not try it out?! Then I got my introduction to milsurps that needed de-cosmo’d to fire, back when they were super cheap, and started to understand one method by which “Many” could become the answer lol
One because it is new to me. But a bunch of them have been barely fired. Shotguns because I don’t enjoy them adn they’re for home defense. Others because they were terrible to shoot and I should sell them (84FS & HP25).
The rest are just dandy and I shoot them when I feel like it. for some that is nearly every range trip (CX4 & 10/22) , for others it is every few years.
I guess that brings up a more complex similar question regarding guns you own that are shot very infrequently or have been shot, but not for a long time. You mentioned the shotguns you don’t enjoy, I have a 12 gauge pump I probably haven’t shot in, hell, 8 years.
That stuff hadn’t yet been invented when my set asides were set aside. Just Hoppe’s gun oil and a thin accumulation of dust — condition unchanged at periodic inspection, so no worries. They’ll be fine with a cleaning if and when they come back into regular service.
None. Unless I’m forgetting something… Every purchase is about an intended use, and verifying the suitability is the first step of intention following acquisition. Even a SHTF cache requires a shakedown cruise, and a serious contingency weapon require currency of readiness.
I have not purchased a firearm as an investment, nor simply for possession.
OH, Wait, there is the Mod -06 22 rifle, I retired it last year, waiting for my grandson to get old enough and I’ll give it to him, just like my grandpa did, he’s about 3 Y.O. now so maybe 7-8 years…
I have significantly more once fired rifles than I do normally fired or never fired. As somebody mentioned the reason is MIL-SURP collection. For all my guns there is at least 100 rounds preferably 1000 rnds available minus whatever it took to zero it at a given distance then most get a “storage clean” and back in the vault they go. There are a few that are never fired and they are either full of cosmoline or have some other significant value that precludes shooting such as my H&R M1 Garand that came from the Secretary of the Navy cuz I shootted good at the Nationals I ran the numbers on it and it is unissued and only test fired when it was born, the parkerizing is still frosty and the cardboard MRT tube in the barrel is dated 1956 and is one of the very last ones H&R made. Lots of reasons to have unfired guns.
I ran the numbers on it and it is unissued and only test fired when it was born, the parkerizing is still frosty and the cardboard MRT tube in the barrel is dated 1956 and is one of the very last ones H&R made. Lots of reasons to have unfired guns.