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That was my thought also... wow.... talk about giving the sport a bad name....

Yep. Thus my "WTF?".

Well some of you make me feel better. 10years ago I would have considered it blasphemy. But Now I am busier and cannot always get out as much as I want to. Either that our its just too wet to take out a beautiful rifle. Have just picked up a Cooper Jackson Squirrel Rifle yesterday and today its raining cats and dogs. So That one I will be taking out as soon as the weather permits.

So the count stands:
22lr X3 (Cooper, CZ, and marlin 39a)
243 X1 (Rem700)
223 X6 (ARx5, Kimber Montana)Found a really good deal on the AR's
12ga X4 (BenelliM4, Win1897, a savage pump and SXS)
7RM x1 (Win70)
SKS
35rem (Marlin 336)
45acpX2 (Colt New Service? and USS 1911)
45LC (Verginia Dragoon)
Could probably dig out another one or two if I dug hard enough.
Thats Kinda depressing.

He has to mean he has not killed anything with it yet or shot at an animal.......I hope.

Only 2 ...one is a 22 lr Marlin Model 70 that I tricked out for a friend then he needed to sell it for money probs. The other is a 25 auto Beretta that was passed down to me from my wifes grandpa.

So is Virgin gun never shot or is it a gun which has never killed anything?

I guess it means something different to everyone. In the context I was asking I ment one that was not shot by you yet.

i hunt every firearm i own, every year. if a rifle/shotgun doesn't get hunted in a year (or at max 2), i give it to one of my kids/inlaws/grandkids. as i age i want less. i'd rather see guns go to younger folks who can grow old with them.

Rifles...just one as I rarely buy new guns but last summer bought a Winchester 1885 Sporter in .405 Winchester...still has the tag on it.


Bob

I just picked up a 1990 model 700 mountain rifle in 243 at a swap meet on Sunday. I have not shot it yet. that will change as soon as the snow is gone or at least melts a little more.
Rick

+1..They get shot or off they go.

As for coyote Hunter, I'm sure he meant that he never killed anything with it.

Once I went almost a month, but only because it was a new centerfire that showed up a couple days before muzzleloader season and I didn't want to take time off hunting to go to the rifle range.

Usually a new gun comes home, gets optics, gets a trigger job, and goes to the range that same day ... unless it got dark too early, then it's a first thing next morning deal.

Well ... ok, I guess I do have one "virgin" gun. It doesn't have a stock though, just a barreled action. I could shoot it but it might get sorta exciting in a sorta bad way.

Tom

I have a few that I need to shoot.

Underwood M1 carbine (keeps hiding behind the doorframe of the safe) bought last yr from CMP

Marlin 39A Golden Mountie (needed scope rail holes redrilled)

Winchester 1897 Trench gun (wifes grandad's) MIL just gave it to me)

Colt Police Positive, NIB from 1919 (with original box of ammo) Wife's Grandad's again, MIL gave it to me last yr. It's unfired, so I'll never fire it either)

Beretta .25, buddy gave it to me couple of yrs ago... never felt like shooting it

Braverman Pen Gun, 22LR... buddy gave me that one too, I keep forgetting that I have it, someday I'll have to try it.

I think that's it. Spring's comin'. Time to get them ready.

None now. Have sold four that I can remember without ever firing them. Two were bought in stores but two were purchased from private individuals who had never fired them either.

All four were bought 'cause being LH bolt rifles I figured the particular models were scarce and could be discontinued - which they were.

I guess there are two in the house that haven't been shot yet, Ruger LCR .38 Special that I got for my birthday a couple weeks ago, it'll get shot some this weekend. Wife was given her grandpa's old JC Higgins 12 guage pump for our wedding, I cleaned it up of the rust, snake oiled the stock, and stuck it in the safe a couple months ago. She'll probably dove hunt with it this coming fall.

UnFIRED?! Seriously? I thought this thread would be about unblooded rifles.

Uh... none. Can't even imagine owning a gun and not shooting the snot out of it.

I do have one very egregious unblooded rifle- my wonderful .338 WM. And my BLR in .325 also. Those are the only two that have been hunted significantly but never drawn blood.

So its a naked vergin?:)

I wish more grandparents, etc. would do this. I was the only grandchild on both sides of my family that was really interested in firearms and several were promised to me when they passed. Not wanting to sound selfish I would have liked to enjoyed them some when my grandparents were still around.

Out of probably a dozen that were supposed to be mine I received one and that was only after a fight. The others most likely ended up in a pawn shop, as most of my relatives were/are worse than a pack of wolves.

Sounds like some my family. When my grandpa passed away last August he told my dad and my uncle that they could have his guns. They are the only 2 that hunted out of the 6 kids. well the 3 low life individuals were at the house the day before he passed away and got everything worth while including the guns. Now my dad and uncle have nothing from him in the way of guns and they are all probably down the road like you said. My dad and uncle never pushed the issue cause they did not want to fight.

How low do you have to be to start taking chit before a guy is even dead.

I shoot them all.