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Wallhangers
« on: January 27, 2018, 12:48:06 PM »
 Do you gentlemen have any guns that are just too nice to hunt or shoot with?
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2018, 02:24:21 PM »
Hi,
No.

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2018, 02:52:37 PM »
Hi,

Me neither.

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Offline BOB HILL

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2018, 03:05:33 PM »
Haven't seen one yet.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2018, 03:21:15 PM »
No such thing in my opinion
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2018, 03:29:52 PM »
Have three that are un-fired and have owned them for several years.  I do intend to shoot them one day but will pick the day.  So for me the answer is a temporary yes.
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Offline EC121

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2018, 04:15:48 PM »
My rifles were all shot the day or day after I received them..
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2018, 04:33:38 PM »
They are made for shooting and not hanging on the wall.

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2018, 04:57:36 PM »
Quote from: Molly on January 27, 2018, 03:29:52 PM
Have three that are un-fired and have owned them for several years.  I do intend to shoot them one day but will pick the day.  So for me the answer is a temporary yes.
I have 3 also that have not been shot since buying.  They will be shot when the weather breaks this spring.  Need to align the sights on each of them.  not afraid to shoot any gun I own.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2018, 05:39:39 PM »
I've got 3 non-shooters. First is a cherry stocked rifle hanging on the wall I'll never shoot again. The stock cracked on the belly between the triggers and entry pipe so I pulled the .54 cal. x 48" smoothbored barrel and Chambers Round-Faced English lock off, added a non-working Barker/Whatley lock and a broom handle barrel machined to fit the barrel channel. I drilled a 5/8" hole in the muzzle end about 2" deep and painted the barrel with antique bronze rust-oleum paint. It hangs in a dark corner of the living room and the only way you can tell it's not a shooting gun is by picking it up. I also have Malachi and Isaac that never gets shot. They are tucked away in the safe. Malachi is Salvo's "John Dodd" gun and Isaac is Lloyd's "Hawken" gun.
They way things are going I may never shoot any of them again anyway.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2018, 05:58:28 PM »
There are hunters, shooters, and collectors. All have different motivations.  I would venture to day that high end collectors who often pay 5 or 6 figures for their guns never shoot them.  It ain't their thing.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2018, 06:09:37 PM »
If I have had guns I never shot it wasn't because they were too nice, it was because I didn't have time.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2018, 06:49:04 PM »
I own one that I have not fired, not because its too nice, just haven't taken the time to take it out and shoot it.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2018, 06:55:47 PM »
Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun.
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Offline David Rase

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2018, 07:47:00 PM »
I have not owned one yet that I have not shot.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2018, 09:22:23 PM »
I always said I wouldn't want a gun that I didn't plan to shoot. Well, an old TC Hawken kit was rediscovered in my dad's closet, I took great care putting it together, removed a lot of wood and reshaped everything to make a really nice gun, for a TC.

It is a percussion gun, I am more into flint, I suspect it will become an unshot gunsafe queen. I will keep it because of the family connection but probably never shoot it.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2018, 12:11:39 AM »
No safe queens here,mine all get that rode hard,put away wet look,probably to soon though.I can't just have a gun and not shoot it,I suppose if I spent ten grand on a custom perhaps I wouldn't take it on a forced march but it sure would get shot,what's the point then?Antique rifles would be a little different.Was down my Pops house last week and pulled a few I store at his place to make sure they are still well oiled,been quite a few years since any lead flew out of those barrels,promised all of them this spring I would let them see some action ;)
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2018, 02:30:20 AM »
i do have several wallhangers but mainly do to distance to rifle range.
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« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2018, 04:28:46 PM »
After a good shooting session I clean them and hang them on the wall.
Robby
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2018, 04:53:28 PM »
I see guns as being meant to shoot.  If it is a fragile old antique.....no.  But normal guns?  I shoot them.  A Wallace Gusler rifle?  I'd shoot and enjoy it.  I take care of my stuff and don't beat it up, but I buy to use. 
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2018, 05:47:58 PM »
  Build them to hunt. But then to hunt or sell. But they all get test fired before I sell them. To make sure everything is working an safe.
  Ops forgot accurate.
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2018, 07:22:46 PM »
Quote from: saltland on January 27, 2018, 12:48:06 PM
Do you gentlemen have any guns that are just too nice to hunt or shoot with?
  Scott

Nope.

Two reasons:  (1)  I can't even begin to afford something I'd consider "too nice to shoot", and likely never will; and (or because?), (2)  It'd have to be awfully darn special, to keep me from shooting it at least a little.

If I ever win the Powerball lottery, my attitude may change.
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Offline Stoner creek

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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2018, 07:40:48 PM »
Yes. I have one that I’m not worthy to dirty up. The last one made by a true master here locally. Will post pictures at a later date. My daughter is writing a story on the piece which we are in hopes of getting published in one of the two magazines out there. If you like RCA #42, you’re going to love this one.
 Besides, scuttlebutt is that Mr. Brooks has a fine little .36 about ready to make a trip down to Stoner creek. You know what I’ll be shooting this spring. Squirrels be forewarned. 
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2018, 09:07:23 AM »
Quote from: wattlebuster on January 27, 2018, 03:21:15 PM
No such thing in my opinion

Yep! My thoughts exactly. 
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Re: Wallhangers
« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2018, 09:09:46 AM »
Quote from: Strong Bear on January 27, 2018, 04:33:38 PM
They are made for shooting and not hanging on the wall.

Dave

Half right. Fine longrifles (any longrifles, for that matter) are ideal for both.  :)
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