Ever notice how many shotguns are new and "never been fired"?

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Wrote a post but it was deleted and Firefox shut down, while the title was preserved. Have I been hacked? The title is basically the jist of my post.
 
Hacked? Well it's posted so I am thinking you're ok? Why are so many shotguns new and unfired? I assume you mean in the EE ads? Many of certain types were bought as investments and many others are like anything else. Sometimes we buy something, life gets busy and things get set on the backburner or at times there are some pretty remarkable stories surrounding them such as an SX-1 Trap with IM barrel I purchased that nobody in the man's family knew he had purchased. He bought it as a gift for his son who committed suicide before he could give it to him. It sat in the trunk of an old car he owned from the day he brought it home until after he passed away. It was only discovered when the family opened the trunk of the fellows old car parked in the garage at the cottage to clean it up to sell. Thats when they found the gun and learned of how it got there.
 
Amazing why would anyone buy something and never use it, that is like dating and never test driving her.
 
nick237 said:
Some of us are hoarders
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Yep, I have many purchases, used and new that I wanted at the moment and then got sidetracked by something else. I consider myself lucky due to the size of my purchases. A buddy of mine does the same with used motorcycles. He stores them in cheap rental garages and on friends' properties all over the city. He recently actually "lost" one. Says he knows he never sold it but can't remember where the hell he stored it!
 
Forget shotguns, the other day one member was asking about 6 or 7 unfired rifles from decades ago. All the same model -Rem 7400 and all chambered in a different cartridge.
 
I bought a Henry original 44-40 which I will probably never fire. And if I find a Henry original deluxe 44-40 I will buy it and probably never fire it as well. I have to many others I can play with.
 
Grock-co said:
Amazing why would anyone buy something and never use it, that is like dating and never test driving her.
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It is the difference between people who like to OWN guns and people who like to USE guns. The former are satisfied just owning them and often their guns become ornaments with the same degree of utility as a Royal Doulton figurine. Meanwhile those of us who see guns as a means to an end enjoy using them more than owning them.
 
I enjoy collecting as much as shooting/hunting. The pursuit/chase is often more exciting than the owning. I've never left something unfired mind you. It may take a while, which is the case with a few of my recent acquisitions, but I'll eventually put some rounds through'em

Patrick
 
3macs1 said:
The way I see it if you don't have firearms new and unfired you don't own enough :)
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Nailed it. I had a .30-30 for years, eventually sold it. One year I bought a shotgun in November and didn't get around to trying it out until about June, so it was new/unfired for about 7 months. And now you guys have got me thinking . . .
 
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