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Posted: 5/24/2003 2:09:53 PM EDT

I purchased a Beretta 92FS last November and finally got the chance to shoot it last weekend. I have never gone more that a few hours with other purchases in the past just like most of my other friends.

I am just curious how long other people have waited.

btw - it was a great shooter![snoopy]

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:15:09 PM EDT

[#1]

I bought a Remington Mod 700 PSS just before I was laid off in April of 2002 and still haven't fired it.

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:20:23 PM EDT

[#2]

um going on 8 years now. Have no reason to use it (spas 12) have two.

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:26:50 PM EDT

[#3]

1 day

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:28:50 PM EDT

[#4]

4 1/2 years and counting. Colt CAR-3 last of run, NIB. Has sticker on box - "Do not open unless I am dead."

I am saving it for my son (who is now 3 1/2), he gets it when he turns 18. Who knows what it will be worth then...

--Edited because I cannot type today...

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:40:34 PM EDT

[#5]

I have a preban bushmaster carbine I've never fired.

That I bought before the ban.[:)]

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:40:38 PM EDT

[#6]

my AR. took me a good three or four months before I could finally take it out.

until then, though, I cleaned it a lot [:D]

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:46:13 PM EDT

[#7]

I have a 20 gauge Mossberg shot-gun I bought for the wife when she was getting interested in some squirrel hunting back in 1993.
She dropped her interest and the shot-gun still to this day has not been fired.
I also have a Smith & Wesson Model 59 Nickel 9mm that was purchased in 1980 and still in the Factory box with not a single round even loaded into the pistol. It did have mother pearl handles installed on it at the dealer were it was purchased.

Posted: 5/24/2003 2:48:40 PM EDT

[#8]

Oooooooohhhhhh...that model 59 sounds shweeeet!

Those are supposed to be fine pistols.

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:09:40 PM EDT

[#9]

From Sunday until two hours ago.

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:13:11 PM EDT

[#10]

I've got a Walther P-08 I bought around 1975 that has never left the house.

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:13:36 PM EDT

[#11]

Not hi-jacking the thread, but here is my pics of the Model 59.
Byron 2112 I hope you like these
I have had the 59's before and they are a sweet pistol, but when I finally got this one I decided it best not to shoot it.

Factory Box
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=12613[/img]

Here is the pistol in the box
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=12614[/img]

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:24:47 PM EDT

[#12]

I've gone at least a year, maybe more without firing a new gun.

My dad however, can go forever. He's got at least twenty unfired guns including a S&W airweight .38 he bought for my mom back in the 60's that's never even left it's orignal box.

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:27:43 PM EDT

[#13]

Wow!

Very nice.

A fine looking handgun.

Makes me wonder why they don't seem to make many nickle plated or polished stainless firearms anymore?

When I was a kid(70's) seems like nickle revolvers and such were pretty common.

I think that kinda finish is beautiful and makes a handgun a real treasure.

Thanks for the pics nwatson99.

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:36:27 PM EDT

[#14]

Got my Serbu BFG-50 about 2 months ago and haven't fired it yet. I was going to leave it NIB but life is too short, it's gettin' shot! [50]

Posted: 5/24/2003 3:50:03 PM EDT

[#15]

I have a Beretta Cougar 40 cal. I bought it in March of 2001.

My mom was going to buy a gun for protection, so I gave it to her to save her some money. Never been shot.

ED

Posted: 5/24/2003 4:24:38 PM EDT

[#16]

I had a Hungarian AK underfolder that I kept for two years and never fired it. It hadn't ever been fired before and I couldn't make myself shoot it because it was so nice looking, not a ding or scratch or anything. So I sold it.

TS

Posted: 5/24/2003 4:41:01 PM EDT

[#17]

a remington model 552 unfired in the box purchased on 4-27-93

A ruger MK2 50th anniversry purchased on 12-28-99 unfired in the box

and a Beretta M9 commerative unfired in the box with all the goodies purchased on 7-1-01.

Posted: 5/24/2003 4:44:56 PM EDT

[#18]

A week. Mossberg 590A1

Posted: 5/24/2003 4:46:10 PM EDT

[#19]

6 days. Broke my heart. I generally try and stop on the way home from picking it up.

Posted: 5/24/2003 4:55:45 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Got my Serbu BFG-50 about 2 months ago and haven't fired it yet. I was going to leave it NIB but life is too short, it's gettin' shot! [50]

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In related news...Gunbert has finally mastered hypnosis.

Posted: 5/24/2003 5:04:28 PM EDT

[#21]

I'm sure it was 5-6 weeks after I bought my S&W 586 that I finally shot it.

Posted: 5/24/2003 6:12:26 PM EDT

[#22]

I have a moisin nagant rifle that has been sitting in my safe unfired for three years because I can't figure out how to open the ammo can. [:)]

Posted: 5/24/2003 6:13:29 PM EDT

[#23]

I think that it was over a month , if not 2 before I got a chance to shoot my Browning Hi-Power..

was workin' crazy hours at the time and had demanding type of girlfriend..

t

Posted: 5/24/2003 6:27:46 PM EDT

[#24]

I bought a Winchester 30-30 when I was about 18. I'm just a hair under 40 now and I still haven't gotten around to shooting it.

Posted: 5/24/2003 7:29:47 PM EDT

[#25]

I've got a shotgun new & unfired going on five years and two AK's going on about four years. they're stored for a rainy day. I've had a number of other pistols and rifles that I picked up in trades that I never fired before I traded them again. I do tend to shoot everything else I have.

Posted: 5/24/2003 7:45:16 PM EDT

[#26]

Sig P229 in .357Sig. I'm still waiting to put night sights on and I picked it up August 1999.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:00:24 PM EDT

[#27]

2 months, a NM M1A

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:12:10 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
2 months, a NM M1A

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I think I got you beat Mike. I bought two bran new Match M1As about a month apart early last year. I have not fired either one yet.

However, weather permitting I'm going to skip church tomorrow morning and go out and zero in those suckers.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:20:06 PM EDT

[#29]

8 months. A Kimber Custom Classic 1. This was just a few weeks ago and I can still see those ragged holes forming...nice gun.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:26:54 PM EDT

[#30]

Have a 9mm Firestar M43 I last shot in 1993.
Have a Mosberg590 I last shot in 1996.
Remington 1187 bought in 1999, never shot.
Bushy bought in 1999 never shot.
Sig 220 shot back in 1996.
Walther P38 got in 1994 never shot.
5 shot Derringer 1994 never shot.
Remi 700 picked up December or so of 2002. Not shot.
And many others unfortunately, sitting around collecting dust.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:30:37 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
I have a moisin nagant rifle that has been sitting in my safe unfired for three years because I can't figure out how to open the ammo can. [:)]

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Chainsaw.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:49:09 PM EDT

[#32]

You guys are all sick! Guns that aren't shot are nick-nacks. You should have just bought beanine babies instead.

For me the longest was a month for a new 10-22.
Most of my new guns pop their cherry that weekend.

Posted: 5/24/2003 8:50:30 PM EDT

[#33]

THREE MONTHS, BOUGHT A JAP ARISAKA TYPE 99 IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR. STILL HAVE NOT FIRED IT. HAVE THE AMMO, BUT I GUESS I AM SOMEWHAT AFRAID TO FIRE IT. I QUESTION HOW SAFE IT IS.

Posted: 5/24/2003 10:26:37 PM EDT

[#34]

Japanese Arisaka rifles have incredibly strong actions. Go ahead and shoot it. Unless you got shafted and wound up with one of the Gaijin specials. Hope you can read Japanese.

Myself, I bought my AR and couldn't get ammo for a month. That was excruciating.

Posted: 5/24/2003 10:54:14 PM EDT

[#35]

1 day.

And it was 10 degrees and snowing.

Posted: 5/24/2003 11:14:54 PM EDT

[#36]

I usually shoot them the day I get them. Have been known to just shove one in the chamber and let it fly even though the rifles have clean barrels.

I guess the longest I've went was the two or three days that passed before I shot my G19 back in January.

Posted: 5/25/2003 12:00:01 AM EDT

[#37]

decades

Posted: 5/25/2003 12:39:43 AM EDT

[#38]

about 20 minutes.

-Spaceman

Posted: 5/25/2003 1:33:08 AM EDT

[#39]

6 Months and going A 44 mag-S&W 629, .308 HOWA Varminter, Mod. 70 Winchester 300 WSM, Bushmaster Varminter, TC Encore, [banghead]

But I will be done this job in 1 more month.!!!

Posted: 5/25/2003 3:49:30 AM EDT

[#40]

I've got a couple NIB shotguns I've never fired...

one is 7 yrs, the other 3 yrs.

plus, I've got C&R's I've yet to take to the range.

Posted: 5/25/2003 4:36:23 AM EDT

[#41]

I have had a RRA varmint rifle in the safe for 2 months now waiting for the Tasco SS scope to arrive(tracking says it's coming this Wed.)so that's the longest for me. Usually I have all the mags, accessories and ammo long before the gun is purchased.

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