Safe Queens

onpoint

onpoint

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Do any of you have one or more?

What are they and why are they a safe queen? Value? too pretty? Too sentimental to let something happen to them? Not safe to shoot? Etc?

I have a couple, one that I have never shot. A 1969 Belgium Browning magnum A5 20ga 26" vent rib skeet choke in near new condition. Reason it's a safe queen? I have two and just shoot the one with honest hunting dings. Yes, it is just too nice to let something happen to it.

My 1980's limited edition custom shop 20ga Superposed with AAA wood. I do take it on a couple of hunts a year but it is cared for like fine China. I just don't want anything to get banged up on this baby.

Value does come into play for me with both these guns.

How about you, any safe queens in your gun rack?
 
At one time, shot them all; however, I have a Remington Model 700MR .280 that has not come out in years. I quit hunting deer several years ago and now it just sits in the corner of the safe. Maybe someday I'll pick it up again.
 
My Dad's old Stevens SxS & his .35 Remmie don't get out anymore. I just gave a Browning BPS 20 that I haven't used in years to an aspiring young bird hunter whose parents couldn't afford to buy him a decent shotgun. My Colt Python is "almost" a safe queen, though I do shoot it on occasion; I just don't pack it in the field anymore . . . I carry a Smith Model 57 .41 Mag (complete with gold-embossed lettering) that I picked-up for a song instead. There are quite a few others that I use every so often, but usually I default to my favorites when hunting. After I was "traded-in on a younger model" I resumed my gun collection pursuit. Once the former bride stopped by & the door of one of the vaults was open . . . "Did you buy more guns?" "Yup," I replied. "Why do you need more guns?" "I didn't 'need them; I wanted them." "Then if you didn't need them, why did you buy them?" she inquired. I just smiled and said "Because now I can."
 
koja48 said:
Once the former bride stopped by & the door of one of the vaults was open . . . "Did you buy more guns?" "Yup," I replied. "Why do you need more guns?" "I didn't 'need them; I wanted them." "Then if you didn't need them, why did you buy them?" she inquired. I just smiled and said "Because now I can."
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I have a very early Winchester Model 9422 that I bought new that has not seen a full box of shells through it. I know I haven't shot it in nearly 30 years. It is in pristine condition with not a scratch or mark on it. I have thought about selling it but for now it will continue to sit in the gun cabinet.
 
I have several - a pre-64 Model 70 .270, a custom made target gun that nobody can quite figure out ( i forget even whatr caliber it is!) and a semi-auto 30.06 Rem Woodmaster that I don't think has ever been fired. All three were my dad's.
 
I've got guns I haven't shot in a few years, not because they're too 'good' to shoot, but because I have too many to regularly shoot.

I've got plans to build a full blown Mauser of some sort in 7x57 when the funds allow. It'll have wood on it worth more than the car I drive to work. It will be carried on hunts, and those won't just be go sit in an enclosed blind hunt either.

Life's too short to not hunt a pretty gun.
 
There's one I will have as a safe queen: My Dad's Remington rolling block chambered in a .218 Bee. Custom everything, including the comb, carved for a lefty, sadly. (I'm not a southpaw.)
 
cheesy said:
Life's too short to not hunt a pretty gun.
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I totally agree, I do hunt my superposed several times a year and the mint A5 Magnum 20 that I have never fired. It will get hunted, heck maybe today. I'm heading to a friends house for a bit today. He has possibly the most Ruff grouse I have ever witnessed in a area before. It would be a near sure bet to get some action for the gun I have never fired. I just don't carry these guns on a regular basis.

Have a great day everybody
 
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I hunt my Benelli 28-gauge Legacy quite frequently . . . pretty, light, quick, & fun to shoot.
 
I'm too broke to buy anything I don't use regularly. My dad's a pretty good wood worker and built a custom cabinet that's full of queens- most of which have been inherited. Wish I had pictures with me, but found the ultimate queen in my Grandpa's custom cabinet probably 5-6 years ago. He was hiding a Perazzi in there no one knew he had :eek:
One day....
 
Beretta12 said:
He was hiding a Perazzi in there no one knew he had :eek:
One day....
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Confessions of a gun nut, don't you love it when you hear of a true gun lover keeping such a high dollar treasure from be discovered by others, specially the wife. A toast to your grandpa:cheers::10sign::thumbsup:
 
I've got an Ithaca model 37 12 GA in the safe that my Mom bought new for my Dad on their first wedding anniversary in 1947, four years before I was born. Both of my parents have passed on. The last time I took it out of the safe other than for cleaning was to shoot a very sentimental round of trap with it on 11/8/08, the day my sister called me to tell me that Dad had died that morning. I also shot a round with the Browning Belgium 20 GA A5 that my Dad bought for me when I was 15. I think about my Dad often when I'm out in the pheasant fields.
 
:thumbsup: Guns carry that sentiment. Maybe you could take it out annually every November and shoot a round for old times sakes.
 
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