Buying guns you'll never use.

[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