Taking your special and vintage rifles into the bush?

If I cannot hunt with it, I find no reason to keep it.

I have some very nice long guns, but they get to
go in the field and woods with me as often as I can
get out with them. Dave.
 
As my collector friends always say :)

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Can’t imagine spending 2.5-3.5 gs on a rifle and scope combo and not using it for hunting. Kind of like buying an off-road edition truck and putting duratracs on it and only driving it on the highway

No hate to the collectors though; I love buying perfect guns from them and hunting with them
 
We have such a different way to look at things than in Europe, where they do just that all the time, taking guns old guns hunting and some of those old guns are so expensive we are talking really expensive, they carry them in the mountains, in the rain and snow and they most often wood stock, high grade wood stock and blue steel!
Africa, talk about expensive guns, double rifles going for 10+k being dragged into the dustiest conditions ever!!
If you take care of your guns there is no reasons to not go hunting with them, unless you are a collector and some of your guns are for investments the I can understand!
Quote at the bottom of “Why not?” Posts, “ Not taking a rifle out hunting because it has lovely wood, fine checkering and well-executed metal work, is like refusing to marry and enjoy life with a gorgeous woman because she will get old and wrinkled.”
Cheers
 
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I hunt with all of my rifles and shotguns. Some are tools, some are art, but all have to be functional and are used by me to fulfil their original purpose. The idea that a gun is too nice to hunt with makes me wonder how some folks care for their guns in the field. I've never broken a stock, never had a really bad scratch or dent. I did have one rifle rust on me when I neglected to care for it properly during a wilderness canoe-in moose hunt, but that was my own fault. Properly cared for blued steel and walnut will handle some pretty horrible conditions if it's well taken care of.
 
Some years back, I got to know a Sgt. at the Fort Totten police station on the Devils Lake Reservation. He had a small collection of old Colt revolvers. He told me his wife asked him one time why he spent so much time cleaning and wiping those guns down. “She just doesn’t understand, “ he said to me.

I have a rather large collection of military rifles, plus a bunch of “hunting” rifles and shotguns. Some of the military rifles I’ve never fired and have no intentions of firing. Some I shoot once in a while. I have been ridiculed on here for having firearms I don’t use. Guess what? I’m the one who paid for these guns, they are still in my possession. You guys would roll on the floor laughing if you could see what I actually do hunt with.
 
I take everything i own into the woods. Although i dont have any overly expensive rifles (all sub $2500) but my pride and joy(also the rarest) is an all original commercial(Lee Speed) CLLE. I love taking that rifle on walk and spending time with it.
 
I've got one that if I had it new it might seem too nice to risk a scratch, but when I bought it used it had just enough signs of use to relieve me of that worry. I'm now too old to worry about that, there is nobody in particular to pass my guns on to, if I won't use them I should sell them and I'm not ready to sell them.
 
Although I have many, many guns I only have about a dozen guns I take hunting because they are my preferred hunting guns. The rest spend lots of time at the range though. IF you don't want to take a gun hunting then don't, pretty simple.
 
Every rifle I buy weather 140 yrs old or close to new has to pay its way and provide me with at least 50 lbs of sausage or jerky....I quite buying a few years ago as I currently still have 1/2 dozen circa 1900's outfits that still need to fulfill the contract they have with me.
 
pounder said:
If you don't shoot your guns it's like buying a car and not driving it .
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Odd, isn't it? Like me with my guns that I don't shoot. I have a good friend who restores old tractors. Spends hundreds of hours on them, lots of money, and doesn't use them. Maybe I should tell him that's not right, at least according to CGN.
 
track said:
That's exactly right! Antique/Vintage vehicles are purchased and only placed on display during car shows, sometimes a joy ride on a nice summer day.;)
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And what is wrong with that. I do that also and have always made a ton of money on those investments when I decide to sell .
Cheers
 
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