Should it stay... or go

[Tower75]

Hi all. Good weekend?

Question, or rather "what would you do?"

I have a rifle, big deal I hear you cry, we all do. This is correct, however, this partiular rifle is not used much at all. I think I've shot it once this year... I think. We shall call this... Rifle A.

I have another rifle in the same calibre, I shall call this Rifle B, and I "love" shooting it, however, when I shoot Rifle A I don't "love" it, I simply get a "eh, you're okay" feeling. Whenever I go to shoot, I open the cabinet, look at the two rifles and grab Rifle B.

However, Rifle A was my first full-bore rifle, so I feel a little bit attached to it. Well, it wasn't actually my first, let me explain. My first FB rifle was a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 when I was 18 years old and to be honest the rifle was... crap. Not in that charming way Mosin Nagants are, but I mean crap. The barrel was shot out and the ammo I had for it was heavy MG ball where every third round burst and spit crud in my eyes. And to an innocent 18 year old, this was unpleasent - so I traded the Mosin for Rifle A - so you can argue, I didn't really want Rifle A, it was just an easy trade.

So, the "what would you do" moment, if you have a rifle that you don't use that much, but upon selling you "might" feel bad about it if you did - would you sell the rifle, or keep it in case you can reignite the spark in the relationship?

Bring on the peer-pressure.

[DaveT]

Is there an option to rebarrel to a different calibre for added interest?

[Tower75]

There is always an option

But it's a classic-military rifle and is 90+ years old. So I'd rather keep her whole, and not bubba* her up.



*Bubba? When did that word creep in. [Sigh] Been spending too long talking to yanks :lol:

[Sandgroper]

For me it's easy - move it on.

I have no problems selling one to get another - in fact I can get bored with a firearm fairly quickly and then feel the need to shift it for something else.

Take some photos of Rifle A as a record and then sell it!

[HeatherW762]

Recently sold my first TR rifle. I'd had it for over 30 years but not shot it for probably 3 years and couldn't afford to put a decent scope on it as a backup F Class rifle. Took me nearly a year to pluck up courage but actually found it quite exciting - in a strange kind of way - to see it moving on to be the first TR rifle for a new chap in my club. Now don't miss it at all - especially as he sent me photos of it in it's new paint job - Black Baron, hmmmmm :roll:

So go on, give it up.

Heather

[saddler]

sell it on....you've already made the decision just not admitted as much to yourself....

[bnz41]

If it's an Enfield keep, anything else sell or trade.

[Christel]

Tower, let it go

[judders]

Yup, I'd sell it too. Go on, you know you want to really...

[Individual]

Sell it.
Life's too short (and ammo too expensive) to waste time on un-loved rifles.