Buying guns you'll never use.

[look no hands]

Hi all,

Who still buys guns you know will probably never get used after the initial plinking session soon after receiving it, only for it to be put in the cupboard with the other rifles you've always wanted and only dragged out when you feel guilty.

Typically I was doing a Google search for a certain rifle I've been after for some time (you know the one(and no it's not a 99 Tony)) and up pops one of it's older brothers I've always hankered after since they first came out and are no longer available new, the thing is I already have a version of it in my cupboard upstairs (but without the short barrel and silencer) which never gets used but the little sod is screaming at me to buy it but because it's in a gun shop up north I can't be arsed to go through the rigmarole of all the RFD transfer nonsense and to waste money on a rifle that will never get used.

Pete

[robs5230]

I'm limited by cabinet space (and funds) so can't keep many at once. I love having different rifles though and do change around a fair bit.
I only buy rifles I will use though.
I think you're very tempted as you're not letting on which rifle

[pjbingham]

Sometimes even though you may never use them it’s still worth it I believe. It may be in some cases they are being saved from being scrapped or an unknown fate or maybe that the price is just too good to turn down etc. Very often if you buy at the right price you can scratch that itch and enjoy owning them for a time and then sell them on if and when you fall out of love with them abit.

[where's it gone]

....... if you buy at the right price

If buying new, today is the right price because they will never sell at a lower price. Always remember, quality is never cheap.

[pumpygun]

I bought a Webley Jaguar simply for the fact that it was one of the first air rifles I had as a kid. Shot it at the range the day I bought it and it's sat tucked away ever since

[Benelli B76]

Hi all,

Who still buys guns you know will probably never get used after the initial plinking session soon after receiving it, only for it to be put in the cupboard with the other rifles you've always wanted and only dragged out when you feel guilty.

Typically I was doing a Google search for a certain rifle I've been after for some time (you know the one(and no it's not a 99 Tony)) and up pops one of it's older brothers I've always hankered after since they first came out and are no longer available new, the thing is I already have a version of it in my cupboard upstairs (but without the short barrel and silencer) which never gets used but the little sod is screaming at me to buy it but because it's in a gun shop up north I can't be arsed to go through the rigmarole of all the RFD transfer nonsense and to waste money on a rifle that will never get used.

Pete

Pete, this is called collecting, and a lot of members on here have hundreds in their collections they never use. I would go as far as to say there are collectors with over 1000. I now have very few I never shoot, like the Crosman M1 carbine, the Diana Model 1 tinplate pistol and a couple of others, just kept them due to their excellent condition.

Baz

[Waisted]

Someone is starting to sound like my wife dithering over a pair of shoes or a handbag that she has seen on the Internet or in a magazine, making lame excuses won't get the dam gun. Think of your mental health get it bought call it your Christmas treat.

[gingernut]

There is a limit to the number of guns you can use.

Luckily this does not apply to collectables.

[angrybear]

Things are made to be used, if you're not going to use them then it was a waste of time, effort, money & resources to build them.
Collecting utterly baffles me, you might as well just take a photo if all you do is look at them, & if locked away then they can't even be looked at.

[p.j.]

It's called the joy of ownership - don't underestimate it.

[Benelli B76]

Things are made to be used, if you're not going to use them then it was a waste of time, effort, money & resources to build them.
Collecting utterly baffles me, you might as well just take a photo if all you do is look at them, & if locked away then they can't even be looked at.

Used postage stamps, buttons, tin cans, bottle tops, hair pins, snuff boxes, empty pellet tins, scent bottles, pebbles off the beach, its amazing what people collect. I have studied the human race for years in wonder how complex we are. If it gives you pleasure to own and look at something every now and then, why not ? As long as you can afford your hobby. One thing about collecting air guns you do eventually get your money back sometimes with a plus. I have given dozens of scrap rifles a whole new life for others to enjoy in the future long after I am gone, BSA's Webleys Crosmans Sheridans Benjamins Bahcos etc....

Baz

[jumbuck]

Things are made to be used, if you're not going to use them then it was a waste of time, effort, money & resources to build them.
Collecting utterly baffles me, you might as well just take a photo if all you do is look at them, & if locked away then they can't even be looked at.

Excellent idea, saves on wall paper!!!!!!

[look no hands]

I think you're very tempted as you're not letting on which rifle

If I tell you it begins with a "d" then you'll be wanting it

Pete, this is called collecting, and a lot of members on here have hundreds in their collections they never use. I would go as far as to say there are collectors with over 1000. I now have very few I never shoot, like the Crosman M1 carbine, the Diana Model 1 tinplate pistol and a couple of others, just kept them due to their excellent condition.

Baz

Tell me about it, I already have a collection going, if I shorten the barrel and add a certain silencer to the rifle I already have upstairs then I'll have the rifle I've seen but as usual I'm worried about removing the choke and ballsing up the accuracy.

Pete

[johnbaz]

I've collected airguns for a few years, I wasn't allowed one as a youngster after I accidentally shot my dad in the bum with my very first gun, A Webley Junior rifle (Or maybe smoothbore), I never saw the gun again, It was years before I got another, I had to hide that one from him!!


I now have almost 160 guns but as i'm not getting any younger, I've decided that i'm going to start going through them and selling them off (The ones that I least like first!), I'd hate the wife to be stuck with them if anything happened to me!!



John..

[Roundshot]

I now have almost 160 guns but as i'm not getting any younger, I've decided that i'm going to start going through them and selling them off (The ones that I least like first!), I'd hate the wife to be stuck with them if anything happened to me!!

John..

You'll need a couple of tables at Kempton Park all to yourself, John!