Shooting a Collector Grade Luger

[wterrell]

Hopefully, barring attrition, your collector pistol will still be around 1000 years from now. (this is not an exaggeration) How many owners over that period of time will go out to the range and occasionally fire off a few rounds?
I'll tell you right now that the pistol will be shot out, dinged-up, scratched, 45% finish, with chipped grips within 90 years by occasional plinking. It will be a pile of junk. Have we no consideration for future generations of Luger collectors? Have we no respect for a collectible Luger? Do we really need to hear BANG! from a particular pistol?
Be honest now, the argument for shooting a collectible Luger is to fulfill some dark, uncontrollable, self-centric urges that you do not understand.