Thread: low mileage guns for sale

I tend to buy good second hand guns,that shoot straight. I rarely sell them. Or I buy them for their action for a future build. There are three or four that I have never shot. I tend to keep and accumulate . On the other hand ,a mate of mine is a gun slut: he buys and sell in the matters of weeks if not days! The most recent exemple: he ordered and received a ruger precision rifle. Within less than a week , it was sold with out firing a single shot! He just did not like it. Gun dealers love him:-)
I second what is said above about big boomers. People don't expect that much recoil and the gun is back for sale quickly.
Also, shooting and hunting are activities that can take a lot of time and money. It is all good to read a magazine or a forum and being emulated by its heros. But it generally takes a lots of walking time to get to shoot an animal. And most animal are shot under the 200m mark. When you have spent more than 3k on a custom long range rig just to do that ,no wonder it is back for sale quickly.
New comers to the sport who come out of town with their new tikka and don't have access to easy territory can also be put off quickly when they face the reality of it, and their gun goes back in the cupboard to collect dust or for sale for lack of usage.
Also cost of reloading and shooting for the big boomer can be significant .when a can of powder goes away faster than a box of bullets...you know what I mean...Not talking about the trips to the ( distant and/or accessible) range to test the new load.