I fired some collector grade items. In C96 domain, the market has a few focuses. One focus is top condition "3e" samples (sample with excellent original blue, excellent matching stock, and excellent original bore). There are not many of them, and those are not for shooting. Owner need to keep them in that condition to keep the value. But, there are also many samples missing one or two of those "e". Case by case, if not rare,,, shooting a few is not a big deal.
Other focuses in the domain including collecting original Chinese copies. The cost is not as high as collecting German pistols and there is also some fun in collecting them. The volume is not big. Those are not for shooting. Although most of them look being shooters, consider their context, they are not. At least, not for frequent shooting.
An item for looking only... either it has super condition, or it has strong historical background, or its rarity index being very high. Those should not go to range.
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