Do you have Safe Queens?

Safe queens?

  • I have one or more safe queens and am never tempted to shoot them

    Votes: 59 22.6%

  • I have at least one safe queen but it's very hard to resist giving her a workout

    Votes: 11 4.2%

  • I have "special" guns that I treat very gently and rarely shoot

    Votes: 95 36.4%

  • Guns are tools to be used, I wouldn't consider buying a gun that I wouldn't shoot on a regular basis

    Votes: 96 36.8%
  • Total voters
    261
  • Poll closed .
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spacecoast

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For those of you with at least as many handguns as fingers, which of the choices best describes your position on guns that live in the safe?

Pics of your queens (or former queens) are welcome...
 
Wont own what I cant shoot. Same with cars, motorcycles and horses, well ride the last three, wouldnt be prudent to shoot them....
 
Tools. For now. If I come across something really nice and money isn't tight I might change my mind. I would have to shoot it every once and a while though. Every gun I own at the moment is a "Blue Collar" ($209-$569) gun and they get shot.
 
No safe queens here,,,

I do have two pistols that are very old,,,
I don't fire them very often,,,
But I will on occasion.

All of my others get used regularly,,,
I bought a pristine Model 15 about a year ago,,,
All of my friends all said that it was too pretty to shoot,,,
It now has a cylinder ring and all of the other attributes of a shooter.

I just don't have the money to buy "investment" guns,,,
I also don't have that many years left for them to accumulate value.

I only buy a gun if I want to own and shoot it.

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I just don't have the money to buy "investment" guns,,,
I also don't have that many years left for them to accumulate value.

I only buy a gun if I want to own and shoot it.


+1.
 
I voted for the Guns areTools, but I do have a Tikka 30.06 that has never been shot. That's not to say that I don't want to or that I wouldn't use it. Its sitting in Louisiana with the rest of my guns. I only have three out here in California with me. :(
 
I have guns that I take very good care of but, they all get shot. I mean why keep them in perfect condition when the next owner won't likely care for them the same way I do.
 
I buy them to shoot. I've bought a couple that I never got around to shooting before so after a little while of just sitting in the safe I sold them off just cause I never shot them.
 
Two late 1890's geriatric safe queens. One a Mauser Broomhandle, and the other a H&R revolver. Passed down from my dad 40 years ago.
 
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I have guns given to me by my father. I struggle with taking them out for a good shooting to commemorate his passion for firearms and preserving a part of him to pass along to my sons. I am afraid to wear them out or degrade them in any way.

I shoot all of my guns whenever I can (not at the same session).
 
I have one that is special to me. It is an S & W K 22 target masterpiece. It belonged to my father and has been in the family a long time. But, it still gets taken out and shot 2 or 3 times per year, cleaned and then put back in the safe.

Everything else gets carried and/or shot whenever I feel the urge.
 
I have a few vintage S&W J-frames that are not fired too often, maybe a few times per year...

1956 Chief's Special Airweight
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70's Model 36
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'61 Model 36
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Technically, by the description, I have one safe queen. A 100 year old .32 with a cracked cylinder.

It is so ugly, .............

But it has a certain sentimental value, . . . so it takes up valuable handgun space, . . . and will until such time as my heirs decide differently.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
If I buy 'em, I shoot 'em.

I can understand some people buy them just to have them, to pull them out and admire from time to time, or because it has some sentimental value.......if thats your thing, there is nothing wrong with it, but its not for me.

I can't see spending as much money as firearms can cost, to have them sit and not be used.........kinda like buying a brand new pick up truck, and leaving it in the garage 364 days a year cause you don't want to wear it out.
 
They are bought to be shot.

There are several I don't shoot as often as others but it's not for lack of desire, to be sure.

But if I get the urge, nothing to stop me from shooting any gun I own.

--Wag--
 
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