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Posted: 2/6/2006 10:06:41 PM EDT

and never shot it?

I just got a GI 1911 yesterday and I can't wait to shoot it.

I bought a cricket 22 rifle for my daughter 2 years ago. Neither she nor I have shot it yet. Now that she is 6 it fits her decently enough we will be going out to shoot it once we get a chance.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:08:08 PM EDT

[#1]

I've got a k-31 i've never shot.

It's been a year or more.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:08:22 PM EDT

[#2]

couple of months
I have a couple of John Wayne commeratives that are my moms don't think she would be happy If I went out and cranked off a few rounds out of her John Wayne Colt
actally she did not believe it was a real gun when i gave it to her

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:08:30 PM EDT

[#3]

It will be three years March 15.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:08:58 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
and never shot it?

I just got a GI 1911 yesterday and I can't wait to shoot it.

I bought a cricket 22 rifle for my daughter 2 years ago. Neither she nor I have shot it yet. Now that she is 6 it fits her decently enough we will be going out to shoot it once we get a chance.

Have fun teaching your daughter. My dad taught me to shoot when I was six.. I'll never forget it.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:10:37 PM EDT

[#5]

About 3 Days..... *Shrug*

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:13:00 PM EDT

[#6]

Somewhere between 56 to 60 years.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:13:13 PM EDT

[#7]

2 M44s 5-6yrs
SMLE #1 Mk3 3-4yrs
and the list goes on

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:16:03 PM EDT

[#8]

i inherited two nib belgian made browning sweet 16s with consecutive serial numbers 8 years ago that i nor anyone else will ever shoot.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:18:32 PM EDT

[#9]

before or after I left the brass?

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:47:45 PM EDT

[#10]

My first gun was a Yugo M48A. I shot subsequent firearms comparatively soon after I got them, but that Yugo never got fired until almost two years after I bought it. I just sorta didn't get around to it.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:50:44 PM EDT

[#11]

I have an 8" nickeled Colt 38Spl Python, that I bought 20 years ago when my oldest son was born. I have not personally fired it, just cleaned and lubed the barrel. I will give it to my son when he turns 21 in a year and half.

Posted: 2/6/2006 10:52:17 PM EDT

[#12]

EDIT I forgot about my SA85 I have had it for about 1 year now, and I havent shot it yet.

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:04:43 PM EDT

[#13]

I have a Norinco SKS , still packed in cosmoline and wrapped
in the plastic bag in the unmarked brown cardboard box with the
accessory’s from the early 80's .

100 years from now it might really be worth something

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:08:34 PM EDT

[#14]

Maybe 2-3 days.. if that.

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:44:04 AM EDT

[#15]

3 years.

Winchester Super X2 NWTF Gun of the year

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:46:48 AM EDT

[#16]

I've got a 4" S&W 686 I bought in 1981 when I turned 21.

I'll never sell it.

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:49:46 AM EDT

[#17]

I have my dad's war trophy bring backs (P-08, P-38, Sauer 38h) that haven't been fired in 60 years. I finally fired his bring back K-98 this year for the first time since it was sporterized in the 50's when I took it hunting (I shot it to zero the new scope I put on it).

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:53:41 AM EDT

[#18]

2-3 weeks.

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:12:55 AM EDT

[#19]

I have a P22 I didnt shoot for about a year. Just did here recently and had a blast.

I also have a couple AKs I haven't shot. 1 is over a year old now. The other probably about 8 months.

Problem for me is just accessibility to a Range.

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:17:55 AM EDT

[#20]

about 2 months

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:22:04 AM EDT

[#21]

I have a Russian SKS that I bought in CA a while ago that I fired one round through.I got it for $85 maybe 10-15 years ago right over the counter at a liquor store..still sitting in my closet at my mom's house in the box.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:05:21 AM EDT

[#22]

25 years. I just like to look at it.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:07:49 AM EDT

[#23]

Had a Polytech AKS-47 which was mint and unfired, still had cosmoline on it in the original white box for about a year before I shot it.

- rem

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:16:54 AM EDT

[#24]

Colt SAA. Bought it brand new in Dec '99. I shot it for the first time in Dec '05

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:18:26 AM EDT

[#25]

I have a custom made percussion chunk gun in 36 cal that I have never fired. It was made in 1963 by an old man that was a friend of my fathers. He gave me the gun in the mid 80s, and I have never fired it.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:23:44 AM EDT

[#26]

I have an old Brown Bess that has been in my family since the French and Indian War. To my knowledge it hasn't been fired since the early 19th Century.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:24:15 AM EDT

[#27]

Dad gave me his Rem model 31 shotgun when I was 16

30 years later, I still have it

Bought my first AR in '83 (an SP1)...still have it too

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:38:20 AM EDT

[#28]

I have a J. Stevens Springfield Model 15 .22 given to me by my brother some 20 years ago. I refinished it a few weeks back and I'm just waiting on a few replacement screws to put it back together and once I do, I'll post a few pics.

Posted: 2/7/2006 9:37:51 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I have an old Brown Bess that has been in my family since the French and Indian War. To my knowledge it hasn't been fired since the early 19th Century.

I would love to see it, does it have any regimental or rack/stack numbers?

Posted: 2/7/2006 9:40:36 AM EDT

[#30]

I my dad bought me a Remington 760 .308 rifle in 1981 and it's never been shot that I know of.

Still in the box, ect.

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:52:49 PM EDT

[#31]

I inherited my dad's gun collection 8 years ago, and have never put a round through any of them.

AB

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:56:47 PM EDT

[#32]

Have a Colt revolver and a Smith model 10 from 1984. All other guns I had before were sold so I could built my house.

Posted: 2/7/2006 2:06:06 PM EDT

[#33]

I'd seriously say an hour. Every time I pick up a gun, I immediatly head home, clean and lube it, and proceed to shoot the hell out of it.

Well for guns with optics it might be a little longer for mounting a bore sighting, but you get the idea.

Posted: 2/7/2006 2:11:32 PM EDT

[#34]

I had a Remington PSS for 2 years. I bought it, stuck it in a Starlite case and didn't touch it again until I sold it.

Posted: 2/7/2006 2:15:19 PM EDT

[#35]

I've had my Marlin model 60 for 6 years now. Never put a single round through it.

I often wonder why I bought it.

My recent acquisition of an M261 has basically insured that my model 60 will never get fired.

I also haven't fired my Norinco SKS in about 9 years. Right now I have 5 guns that I've never fired...but I've only had most of them for a couple of months.

Posted: 2/7/2006 2:15:36 PM EDT

[#36]

Twenty-something years. I inherited a "family heirloom" as a teenager - Remington .41RF Derringer from the late 1800s. I have some vintage & repro ammo for it, but I don't want to risk blowing it apart and don't really have any reason to fire it.

If you mean a NIB, unfired weapon, I have a few that I've never shot but none over 10 years old.

Posted: 2/7/2006 2:33:21 PM EDT

[#37]

Longest 4 years - Mosin-Nagant 91/30
Shortest 7 months - Springfield M1A

I still kick myself in the ass for all the guns I bought and sold in the past 10 years, only to regret it later.

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:13:19 PM EDT

[#38]

I've got a P-08 I bought around '75 or '76 that's never been out of the house. My dad has a Colt Commander I remember him buying around 1970 that is still in the box.

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:31:13 PM EDT

[#39]

My 870 I bought in 02

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:35:02 PM EDT

[#40]

ops didn't see the ...."and never shot it part" WTF anyway?

40 years.

Sears Ted Williams single shot 22 given to me by my dad when I was 10. My children all learned to shoot with it as will my grand children.

He bought it out of the Sears catalogue.

I spent hours looking at that catalogue. Guns and panties.......those were the days

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:38:00 PM EDT

[#41]

I've got a really nice Remington 1903 Springfield I got from the CMP in 2002 that I haven't shot yet.
I also have a Mosin 1938 carbine that I think I have yet to fire. Bought that in 2000 or 2001.