I would love to own a gun that I have put 40k through, that would be a tremendous badge of honor for me. But I think it's asking me to go a bit too far to actually purchase a gun that someone has put that volume of ammo through. It begs some questions that need answered. Firstly, when did he get it? What was the routine that built such a staggering number? And how does he actually know this number? What parts have been replaced?
And aside from the only one that seems even halfway rational (deceased), why on Earth would anyone devote that amount of time, care, MONEY on ammo and time to run up FORTY THOUSAND ROUNDS on something... an
YET now need or want to sell it?!
It doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Even if someone could conjure up an answer (other than the owner died or got both arms chopped off in a haybaler), I've got to wonder how you'd price such an animal and how a potential buyer could look at the gun, and it's price, and say that it makes sense to buy it rather than an average used gun or a new one.
Take
FrankenMauser's Browning Buck Mark for example.
How much does a Buck Mark cost? So then, if he wants to sell his with THAT round count, how much does the price need to be for me to say,
"uhhh, yeah, give me one with a higher round count that 99.5% of American Gun Owners will even tally in their lifetime across every gun they ever own added up" rather than me coming up with the three hundred bucks (or less or more) it would take for me to snag a Buck Mark that hasn't had such use?
I've been keeping a strict round count on my handguns for about the last 5-6 years. I've got a number of them well over 3,000 rounds. I bet I have more handguns over 3k rounds than some very active participants have numbers of handguns. I can see how if I got rid of ALL my handguns and just kept like two of them, the round counts on those two guns would skyrocket.
But 40k? Pretty much has to be a competition shooter. Those guns are run HARD, put away WET. They are expected to break down and their owners know exactly what to replace and usually do it proactively.
And simple math...
If I use the
OLD price for bulk rimfire, the cheapest stuff we can argue in this thread, and I price a 550rd bulk pack at a mere twenty bucks tax included (good luck finding that today), you're talking almost $1,500 in ammo to run a .22 pistol to a 40,000 shot round count. Seems to me that a guy spending that money on ammo and that kind of TIME on the trigger of one handgun isn't flipping guns on the weekend... for what, a hundred bucks? That's rimfire priced at 3.6 cents per shot. Try the math with 9mm at $11 a box at Wal-Mart. 40,000 rounds of 9mm at $11 a box (after tax!) is almost
NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS of ammo.
It's a compelling question, to be sure.
It just seems like something that isn't going to happen.