When do you decide it's time

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mrt949

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When it's time to take all the SAFE QUEENS to the dance.Why should be punished and kept in the dark.
 
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A few years back one of the kids asked .When did you get that one ? I don't know I said it's time to treat the ladies too the dance NO MORE QUEENS.
 
I don't own any safe queens. All my guns get used, some more than others, but if I no longer shoot a gun, I sell it to someone who will.
 
The safe queens here I bought specifically to tuck away. A couple I simply bought duplicates of as shooters. Bought them, the safe queens, partially as investments but also knowing that should the day never come that I needed to sell them, I could give them to my son. At that point, if he wants to shoot them, they'd be his to do so what he chooses.
If you set your mind to it at purchase they're safe queens, it's easy (buy 2). If you cannot do that being completely honest to yourself, they never were safe queens.
 
Guns don't strike me as having much 'investment' value. I'm certainly not going to spend a lot of money on one to box up and lock away. That would be like buying the wife an expensive piece of jewelry and telling her she should never wear it.

There's no expensive jewelry at my house (not because I didn't offer, believe me) and no firearms that I'm not willing to take out and shoot.
 
3 handguns, 3 long guns. All of them have been shot in the last couple of months, all of them will likely be shot within the next couple of months.

In fact, half of them will see range time tomorrow :D.

Gun rhymes with run - I'm a shooter first and a gun geek second.
 
I have one gun I would call a safe queen. She still goes to the range about twice a month. I don't carry her so the finish is perfect. I have other 1911's and carry them often.
 
I had a Safe Queen a while back. A clean as a pin 6" 29-3. I traded it back to the dealer on something I would shoot and carry.
I was at the range yesterday. I still have a 617, 625, 64, and a 310 in the truck.

Probably my closest gun to a safe queen would be my octagon barrel 1899 Savage 303 made around 1911. I have put 3 deer in the freezer with it.

I like to shoot them all. That is what they are for.

Bob
 
Safe Queens??? :confused: Don't have any of those. Everybody gets to go to the party. Not all at once of course but everyone gets their turn (and the favorites go almost all the time ... hey, life's not fair, get over it).
 
In 1982, while working at a hunting/fishing retailer, I bought a consignment S&W pre-29 .44 magnum, 6-1/2" blue. The original owner brought it in to sell. Still had the blue presentation case, all the tools, etc. It had been fired, had the faintest muzzle wear, call it 98% plus. I paid $375 for it.

I kept the gun for 28 years, hunted with it, shot it quite a bit, carried it in the woods, etc. Finally the collector value on it shot up to the point I couldn't justify using it anymore, so I finally sold it in 2010. I got 4 times what I paid for it. Took the money and bought an Encore, scoped, in .44 mag, plus a Taurus .44 mag revolver, and still had a good deal of money left over.

Sure, sometimes I wish I still had it, but the timing was right for me. YMMV.
 
I must say that due to ammo costs, some of my guns get shot quite a bit more than others (I know, I should be reloading). Heck there for a while, I even had trouble locating certain ammo calibers. That being said, unless I have a collector's piece, it gets shot.

-Cheers
 
black mamba
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...so I finally sold it in 2010. I got 4 times what I paid for it.
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Wow--That's what I call serious appreciation. The closet I came to that was during the BO inauguration fear/scare (not that it's over), I had someone offer me 2 times what I paid for my Saiga-12 which was in used but great condition (about 800 rounds ago). I kept it because I am a big fan of magazine-fed tactical shotguns and it's a rugged AK frame (but sometimes I think the money would have been nice to spend on a few new toys).

-Cheers
 
The only safe queen I own is a Ruby pistol, passed from my great-uncle to my father to me. It's in .32 ACP and I know that this one is safe to fire because I saw my great-uncle fire it several times.

I haven't even thought about this pistol in years until last night when my grown son looked in the safe and mistook if for a 1903 Hammerless, which is a common mistake because the Ruby was so closely modeled after the Browning design.

I don't know that I'll ever shoot it. Then again I may pick up a box of ammo and try it after the hunting season.
 
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