How accurate are your safe queens?

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Bonin

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I've been into handgun shooting for a few years now and as some of you I have a few safe queens. I'm talking about these brand new unfired collectable pistols, revolvers or that we clean more often than we shoot, and photo-shoot more often than we clean. Now with the handguns, it's fair to say that anything with a fixed sight doesn't need any adjustment for sighting, so in the event that you need to use them, they'll be as accurate as you are.

Question is : For all of you guys that have safe queen rifles (especially equiped with scopes), how confident are you that you rifle and scope are accuratly adjusted if they have never shoot a single round?
 
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I don't think I understand. If you've never shot a round out of a rifle you own you're just plain crazy. If you put a rifle / scope away after zeroing it, even if your safe survives a magnitude 10.9 earthquake I would expect it to still hold zero, provided you have a quality scope. I don't have any gremlins that play with my scope turrets at night.
 
The only one I got I never shot yet is the old .401sl, considering what it is, pretty sure it would put the bullet close enough, assuming that old ammo goes off.

Regarding handguns, if its never been shot, and you don't know your ammo/POI, assuming the fixed sights will get you there is a pretty rough guess.
 
The '70's era surplus target rifles I've received FOB from Europe have all been zero'd for 100 m out of the box. I consider that excellent cusromer service!
 
Bonin said:
Question is : For all of you guys that have safe queen rifles (especially equiped with scopes), how confident are you that you rifle and scope are accuratly adjusted if they have never shoot a single round?
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Amazing.

The truly disturbing part is that there are significant numbers of hunters who know and care this little about their skill as shooters. A guy who belonged to my moose group in Ontario years ago used an old .303British semiauto, and bragged that he had never fired it except at an animal. When asked about this, he explained that a millitary-type rifle was built so solid that it was always sighted in, no matter what. No, to my knowledge he never got a moose in his life.

I'm sure we all know guys who have their scopes mounted in the gunshop, and then without any test-firing or practice it's a-hunting we will go.
 
I have hunted with a few guys like this over the years, sighted it in when they got the rifle 17 years ago and shot once since at a moose (missed obviously). Not sure if this attributable to loss of zero or bad shoot on a rifle they never practice with.
 
Local gunshop guy told me not too long ago that one of is friends missed a coyote at under a 100m with his scoped 30-06. When he asked him wtf did you do? His reply was "well you boresighted it for me when i got it i dont understand why i missed that!" I tought it was pretty funny
 
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The '70's era surplus target rifles I've received FOB from Europe have all been zero'd for 100 m out of the box. I consider that excellent cusromer service!
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Too funny that someone would buy a firearm that has only been shot by someone else.If any of you guys are lookin to buy a safe queen Ferrari I'll take it for a drive for you then give you a print out of the zero to sixty time.
 
i also dont get the guys that buy rifles or handguns and just put them on display and never shoot them( unless unsafe to do so) no matter how beautiful and high quality they are meant to be shot and enjoyed not locked in a safe or hung on a wall never to chamber a round.
 
pei precision said:
i also dont get the guys that buy rifles or handguns and just put them on display and never shoot them( unless unsafe to do so) no matter how beautiful and high quality they are meant to be shot and enjoyed not locked in a safe or hung on a wall never to chamber a round.
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Because " The guy who dies with the most tools wins"..
 
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