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Agree on the 1911Sig 1911s do not. I have first hand experience with that. Haha. The scorpion and the c3. Finicky little bastards.
The French.Who does that?!
Dave
Good post.I can see several reasons for a carry piece having never been fired,, the biggest is someone bought it, but there was zero ammo available for it anywhere at any price. Someone may have decided that carry wasn't for them, or that the idea/responsibility was beyond them. None of these things is wrong, and if someone bought a gun and then decided it wasn't their thing, and is now doing the right thing and selling it honestly and declaring it was carried and un fired, that's a good thing!
As for me, EVERY new to me pistol or revolver gets tested out before it ever rides the leather, I want to make sure it shoots and functions as expected, and that the ammo I wish to load for carry duty will actually function in said piece and will produce acceptable accuracy, and if I need to adjust sights, I will do so before I ever think of carrying that piece! I think its highly irresponsible to carry a pistol without having ever actually fired it with the carry ammo of choice, there are way to many bad things that can happen and you re setting your self up for some very serious legal ramifications for not doing your due diligence!
What if the pistol doesn't cycle your carry load, what if it shoots them high and to the left, what if it doesn't have enough barrel length to get defensive ammo to perform as intended, or that the velocities are so far below minimums that it cant function at all, how will you ever know any of that until you actually fire it? And remember, YOU are responsible for every single bullet you fire, and if you are going to take the chance and put your faith in Gaston's finest, you might be in for a very unpleasant surprise! Placing your faith in something like a Glock and carrying the same ammo as everyone else doesn't give you a pass, all the above still applies!
Definitely boringly reliable ugly AF but reliable !I have owned a dozen Glocks and have never had a problem with any of them, I still shoot them prior to carry, not out of concern with reliability/function or to break in but to see how the individual gun shoots especially since I always replace the stock sights with real ones.
Or: "Never been fired. Extremely accurate." What's that supposed to mean? Never missed a target? I guess that's true.There was a classified that ran through recently marked as "New. Less than 200 rounds through it."
What the seller might actually mean is:
This gun is awesome and has never been fired in a defensive shooting.
Scenes like this sure make me glad that I cast and reload. I've never been a high-volume shooter or competitor, but I always have enough to go to the range and shoot as much as I want, whenever I want. I can't imagine paying a buck per round for something like .45 Colt, when you can even find it.
Yeah, those bricks of plastic are trash whether or not you break them in.I carry a Glock. Break-in procedures need not apply.
I worked with a deputy at the Sherriff's department that had a Colt Mustang, one day I saw it and asked how it shot? His answer surprised me.Who does that?! And why? There's a pistol for sale in the classifieds, the seller states the pistol was carried but never fired . I don't carry all that often, but when I do, it's a pistol that's had at least 500 flawless rounds through it, and at least a box of that 500 is whatever I'll be using for carry ammo. Why would you even think about carrying a gun you'd never fired? This just strikes me as really wrong, on so many levels. Sorry about the rant, guys, I normally just let stuff like this slide, but this got under my skin, so thanks for "listening". Later.
Dave
Pulled the trigger back for three weeks and it never did go click.I've seen a video on youtube about 1st gun buyers, buying Glocks and realizing the guns don't have a safety and then trading them or listing them up for sale in new condition or never fired.