Your non-suppressed guns...... now???????????

[BrianL]

I have several guns that I no longer shoot since they are thinner non threaded barrels. Some have a little sentimental value, but I'm starting to wonder if I should really keep guns that I won't shoot much, or at all. For those that have bought suppressors, did you keep your old guns just to hang out in the safe? I was thinking about getting a table at the next gun show and thinning out a little. The older I get, the less a feel the need to keep these guns for sentimental reasons.

[STX_Shooter]

I have never kept anything for sentimental reasons. If I don’t use it or need it it’s gone.

[sierracharlie338]

My first rifle that was given to me by my dad will never be sold or threaded. It’s at APR right now getting a new barrel and bedding the action. I want it as close to original as possible but a little more accurate [emoji6]


Sierracharlie out…

[Gunnyart]

Added thread adapters for a couple but still a few that never see daylight anymore.

[ken800]

I used to have somewhere close to 100 firearms. Over time I've culled them down to those that have a specific hunting or defense purpose or those I simply enjoy shooting. I've sold off the rest and I'm down to 20 or so. I've always got an itch for something but the more I consider it and compare to what I have the more I realize what I have is more than sufficient.

[Hunteraudit]

Man I went through and cleaned all my guns in the last week since I was off and I’m wondering the same exact thing as you. The threaded stuff I shoot will stay, the stuff with sentimental value that I whole or don’t shoot will stay. Everything else, I’m probably going to sell. They’re not appreciating in value and just sitting there taking up space.

[duckmanep]

I just had this thought about a couple of mine. Send them off to get threaded or trade them for something already threaded. One of them I would probably shoot more (Rem Model 7 222, never selling or trading it) but I hate to mess with it too. First world problems I suppose.

[UncleBubba]

I have never kept anything for sentimental reasons. If I don’t use it or need it it’s gone.

X2 until I get my dad's .270...

[Artos]

Sentimental guns should never be released...there is reason why you call them that. I would never thread or cut my 280ai or my Great Grand mother's 722 in 257 Roberts as an example. They cut their teeth as they were born & will stay that way.

My kids can figure out what is sentimental.

Suppressors have nothing to do with any relevant gun that I feel should be passed down??

[Mike D]

I have a few guns that I don’t shoot or haven’t shot in years but they have value to me that cannot be replaced. Some haven’t been shot in years.

I will pass them down to the next generation at some point.


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[TX03RUBI]

The only guns I have are useful ones that get shot a lot or sentimental ones. I don’t have any use for tools that don’t get used, but there’s something’s that are just too valuable to be tools. And the value isn’t derived from its cost.

[DarrellS]

I have 17 rifles that never get shot. Some are mine from years ago but most were family members who are no longer here. I buy, sale and trade guns almost weekly but those rifles will always be with me to be passed on to my children/grandchildren

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[El Paisano]

Almost everything I still have is a "family" gun that will be passed down. I guess I am more sentimental at my age. For example, my squirrel gun is a pump 22 with a 24" octagon barrel that is almost 100 years old. It was my wife"s grandfather's. Or, he was like my grandfather for 27 years until he passed. We hunted a lot. Hunting with that old 22 is the closest thing I have to hunting with him again. My daytime hog gun is an M1 carbine given to me by my wife's aunt. They may not be the best thing for what I am hunting, but for me the hunts are about memories of past hunts and making more memories.

[TacticalCowboy]

I have never kept anything for sentimental reasons. If I don’t use it or need it it’s gone.

Kinda my thoughts.

OP, if it were possible to thread the guns you’re considering selling, and buy/order an adapter to use a suppressor, would you do it? If not, sell em. Or give them to a nephew or cousin or something if you want them to stay in the family.

[TacticalCowboy]

Sentimental guns should never be released...there is reason why you call them that. I would never thread or cut my 280ai or my Great Grand mother's 722 in 257 Roberts as an example. They cut their teeth as they were born & will stay that way.

My kids can figure out what is sentimental.

Suppressors have nothing to do with any relevant gun that I feel should be passed down??

Man, I can see this both ways. My first pickup was an 88 GMC half ton that my great granddad got new, and left it to me when I was 11 or 12. My dad and I put a fuel pump in it, replaced heads, swapped transmissions, fixed air conditioners, rebuilt front ends, repainted it , and rebuilt the motor in it from the time I got it, age 11, to the time I gave up on it, age 19. It served it’s purpose, but at the end of the day it was a 30 year old pickup that hat 30 year old pickup problems.

Sometimes sentiment is more headache than it’s worth.