
Originally Posted by
Arik
More often than not it's 20 years of ownership and probably 2 cases of ammo. Shoot a few hundred rounds today, another 100 7 months from now....etc..
There's very few forums where years of ownership = years of use. I see it all the time. " I've owned this Taurus for 37.6 years and I never had a problem!". ..."how much ammo did you shoot?".....*crickets*
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I always thought that was understood. Either lots of years owning, very little using, yet will make claims stating it is a Wunder weapon because it never failed in that time frame, even though we might put more rounds through a firearm in a day training than they did in 10, 20, or even more years. It is why it is really a better quantifier to tell someone how much you've shot opposed to how long you've had it. I know guys who have guns that they have owned for years, if not decades and still haven't shot. Hell I own a rifle myself that I have never fired, granted it is because it is older than dirt and kind of scares me, but still I cant say it is good or bad because I never fired the ****ing thing. I can however tell you quite a bit of my thoughts on other guns which I have shot tons, and I do mean literal tons, of lead out of. I'm talking 10s of thousands of registered rounds down range with the guns. Having done that I can also tell you that some guns will work even with parts are broken or very worn. On a side note so will reloaders, I have a thread somewhere bitching about breaking a ****ing reloader, trust me there were parts that were well past their service life, yet it still worked, I could even have man handled it to make it continue had I desired, doesn't mean that it would have been good for the machine, but I could have. Did not mean I should have tried. And I think that is the point. I is kind of nice knowing what something will do should you need to, but unless you absolutely need to, you are likely going to create worse issues than if you don't, a particular example I know of was a Remington 3200 that we had, wasn't having issues as far as not shooting, but the action was a bit loose, and the trigger had this really funky crunchy feel to it when you fired it. Anyway, Ended up having both firing pins broken, the gun would still kind of fire too, but neither here nor there, firing pin holes were oblong, which didn't help anything, and there was a bunch of other small issues. Ended up being about $900 worth of work that needed to be done to bring the gun back up to spec, and about a 3 month wait. Ended up with a gun that was just about new once we got it back, but proper maintenance and we wouldn't have been dropping the better part of a grand on work, and it likely would not have gone down during the state championship either. Lesson, maintenance cycles aren't written in stone, but they should at least be attempted to be followed to some degree. Also, ignoring issues can cost you, likely money in repairs, or on one case I know of specifically the entire gun when you refuse to heed the manufacturer tell you the that gun has been shot so much over the past 15 years that you need it rebuilt.
The reverse of that are people who will exaggerate claims ect. Be them making the gun look better, ergo your average gun rag, or looking for any small thing to make the item appear less than it is, IE your average AK doomsday preeper who claims AR jam if you don't detail clean them every 20 rounds.
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