"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Gotta have a bear gun no matter where you live.
I sold off most of my examples during The Great Sell-off of 2020 ™.
I've managed to avoid all of those except the thumping magnum (phrasing?). To be honest, when I got into thumping magnums (phrasing!), I was capable of shooting them. Fifteen years later I no longer enjoy them. Casting and handloading makes them affordable (and enjoyable) though.
I sold my first home built AR during the Obama gun panic, but I followed the "best practices" at the time and wound up with a decent build that ran, so I guess it doesn't count.
I do have one of those. It's the single-shot 12 gauge that belonged to a great (or great great) grandfather. It's so loose it rattles.
ETA: The "something in an odd caliber..." category applies (32-20, 6.5x55, 35Whelen, etc), but I do load for them, so maybe not so much.
Chris
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I did not grow up with guns and shooting. And, while I know for a fact that there was a gun cabinet in at least one grandfather’s dining room with rifles in it, and at least one .45 on his boat(s), I am somewhat thankful that I don’t know what happened to any of those as I’d feel some obligation to hang on to them for no practical reason.
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A single gun can fill multiple roles in this list, I suppose
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I've got a Remington 700 in 7mm Mag that an uncle used for decades on his south Texas ranches. The bore is badly pitted, the rear sight is missing, the recoil pad is rock hard, and the web of the stock is cracked. The cost to make it usable again is probably double the cost to replace it.
I'm dropping it off with the smith later this month.
Okie John
“The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the world’s non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute.” Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's