Thread: "Too pretty to use"

Originally Posted by akaroa1

It's even worse when you are looking at buying vintage rifles and you ask the vendor about bore condition ?
And they reply " it's a collectors piece. You can't shoot it " and " the bore is immaterial "
My reply is " it's a rifle and that's what they are for ! "

My Blaser K95 has grade 5 wood and show the scars of many many alpine hunts.
That's what it's for

Hi Akaroa, I appreciate your view but one size doesn’t fit all. One approach doesn’t fit all. I have plenty of rifles that I wouldn’t bush bash with, and would like to keep them in the condition they came from the factory in. Part of the joy of collecting often is finding those rifles from the past unused and in box. And often their value is retained if you keep them in this condition.
I appreciate the precision and engineering and collecting value. I have plenty of rifles also in the high end quartile and use them with care. I don’t have a problem with using a $10k rifle, having the bluing thinning where you carry it, but I don’t see the point of it sliding around in the tray of your Ute or using it as a walking stick down a shingle slide.

So I take your point, but every one has a view on firearms ownership, how they are used and for what purpose they purchased them.