Granddaddy's Gun

[theleo91386]

Hopefully you've got some hunting friends around who whose kids can appreciate the sentiment of a firearm that meant so much to one of there mentors. Using the tools of a master carpenter means something when he was involved in heading you down the correct path in life.

 

[16Bore]

y'all who have sons and daughters and grand children are fortunate to have heirs to hand down to. Am sitting on some nice firearms at the end of the road as far as family treasures go. Just had Browning restore my dads superposed to better than new condition when he bought it in 1956. My only son could care less about any of the sixty plus guns in the house right now and he has no kids. Better do it now before it becomes illegal, guess it already is in some states

This will sting.

Guns are metal and wood, kids are flesh and blood. No man on his death bed would wish for another rifle.

Sell the damn things if you don't want them and spend the $$ on an experience with your son.

One persons heirloom is another's burden.

And I can tell you from experience of having to move, pack, shuffle, distribute, and ultimately sell a pile of "family shit".

I'm cold to it. Don't let your possessions posses you.

 

[VernAK]

I've gotta throw in with 16Bore here.

Heirlooms are nice but not everyone cherishes items as much as you may.

Having settled a couple estates, I found that many of these cherished collections were of little value and many were actually a burden.

The memories attached to an heirloom fade away with the generations.

 

[hodgeman]

I've gotta throw in with 16Bore here.

Heirlooms are nice but not everyone cherishes items as much as you may.

Having settled a couple estates, I found that many of these cherished collections were of little value and many were actually a burden.

The memories attached to an heirloom fade away with the generations.

I've seen the same, especially with taxidermy. I buy guns and make mounts because I like them. My son is a hunter, but to him a gun is just a tool with all the romantic attachment of a ball peen hammer. I love hunting and I love fooling around with guns...but those two interests are only tangentially linked apparently.

 

[TradLife406]

1960s era marine remington piston in the stock action semi auto target 22 with peep sight.
1964 remington 970 pump .270, Kiilled a deer in 1994 with it, and an elk this past march, Oh ya! and a cougar in my back yard!
Also have a 1894 30-30 octagon barrel, sharps type peep sight, silver inlaid horse shoe with some rubies and emeralds inlaid in the stock.
Came from great gramps, to gramps, then to my dad. Maybe mine some day, Ill never shoot it though. My dad is the only person who's killed a deer with it in the early 60's, then he got that pump .270.

My grandpa also had one of those 270 pumps! I got a chance to hunt with it a couple times. One more while sitting on the bluff over looking the crick bottom below with Dad this big ol whitetail climbs up the opposite side a couple hundred yards away. He stops on the top broadside. I pop the safety off and hear a click! Moments later he jumps the fence and we hear gun shots. I think little AJ short stroked the pump while walking in. The another time I shot a doe. She drops then gets up and runs off without a trace of a hit! Not sure what happened. Looked all the next morning and nothing!

Awesome guys!

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[elkbowkevin]

Yesterday, my dad just gave my 13 yr old daughter his 20ga Browning Citori O/U that was purchased in 1980ish. That gun has seen alot of corn, wheat and alfalfa rows and alot of sage out chuckar hunting.
Daughter was wide eyed and super stoked.

 

[AK Troutbum]

Yesterday, my dad just gave my 13 yr old daughter his 20ga Browning Citori O/U that was purchased in 1980ish. That gun has seen alot of corn, wheat and alfalfa rows and alot of sage out chuckar hunting.
Daughter was wide eyed and super stoked.

Might be the best shotgun she will ever own....undoubtedly the best I've ever owned.


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[jwatts]

I inherited my father in laws guns and my wife's grandfather's guns. The most special to me is her grandfathers Stevens 110. It was a bottom of the line 30-06 bolt action. Over the summer last year my son (6 at the time) and I redid it for him. I rebarreled it to a 7mm-08 and put it in a factory youth stock. I kept all of the original parts in case he wants to return it back to its original state. He will get a few other guns from the grandparents he never met. I am hoping this year he will get to take his first deer with it.

 

[Boreal]

When I was 14, my Aapa (grandfather in Inupiaq or Alaskan Eskimo) gave me his pre-64 Win 70 .243 that he used to hunt caribou on Alaska's North Slope to feed his family. He was too sick to hunt by then. I learned to shoot iron with that rifle, then after I'd learned that, he let me put a scope on it. I still had it when he died, but I couldn't bring myself to take it out of the village where he lived his whole life. That same rifle has now taught several of his other grandchildren, and many great grandchildren. I couldn't think of a better thing for an old rifle to do.


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[commandoNate]

Colt model 1903 .32 caliber. This is the predecessor to the famed 1911. It was also known as the 'pocket hammerless' since the hammer is under the slide. I researched the serial number and it was manufactured in 1905 making it 109 years old when I acquired it. We've run a couple boxes through it but it mostly just lives in the safe. Here's the story on how it came to me.

My grandfather had in home health care as he approached the end of his life. One of the ladies caring for him found this in the sock drawer. She gave it to my mom and asked that she take it home with her so that it wouldn't be in the house. The next time I was there visiting I asked mom to show it to me, I hadn't even known my grandfather to own a gun! I instinctively cleared the weapon as soon as it hit my hands and wouldn't you know it was loaded! Mom had put it in a box, taken it to her house, put it on a closet shelf, never having known it was loaded.

 

[huntsman22]

I have my great grandpaps service pistol and gold retirement badge.

 

[WoodsWalker270]

This was my great grandpa's Marlin shotgun that I inherited after my grandpa passed away when I was in high school. Its nothing more than a wall hanger now but it is interesting to look at a turn of the century piece. There are screws missing from it and the barrel is slightly bulged about 2 inches from the muzzle. Its hard to imagine how many squirrels, rabbits, and deer he may have shot with it in a time when hunting was more of a necessity than a pastime.


Shortly after I inherited this shotgun, I unscrewed the buttplate to find my great grandpa's hunting license from 1932. Honestly I treasure this piece of paper more the shotgun itself. It's pretty neat to think that in a time when $1 could have been needed in so many other ways, he spent it on hunting conservation.
This is a cool thread by the way!

 

[AK Troutbum]

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This was my great grandpa's Marlin shotgun that I inherited after my grandpa passed away when I was in high school. Its nothing more than a wall hanger now but it is interesting to look at a turn of the century piece. There are screws missing from it and the barrel is slightly bulged about 2 inches from the muzzle. Its hard to imagine how many squirrels, rabbits, and deer he may have shot with it in a time when hunting was more of a necessity than a pastime.

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Shortly after I inherited this shotgun, I unscrewed the buttplate to find my great grandpa's hunting license from 1932. Honestly I treasure this piece of paper more the shotgun itself. It's pretty neat to think that in a time when $1 could have been needed in so many other ways, he spent it on hunting conservation.
This is a cool thread by the way!

That's really cool, I'm curious though, what prompted you to remove the butt plate? You got me thinking that maybe I should get out all my antique firearms and start pulling the butt plates off.


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[WoodsWalker270]

I've always heard of the old timers storing stuff in their stock and just got curious I guess. Good way to never lose your license and always have it with you.

 

[JollyRoger]

Having my dad and my younger brother both pass in the last 7 months and all of a sudden I've got a bunch more guns with my name on them. For a big part I agree with 16Bore, some of the stuff is just what they happened to like or find a good deal on... or in the case of my brother everything was left handed. Not sure what I'll do with everything just yet, but I'll likely sell a few to purchase things that I prefer or get my two sons something for when they are older.

That said, there are a couple that I will hang on to. One is my dad's old Remington 742 Woodsmaster in .30-06. Growing up I swore he was a wizard with that rifle. He'd spend all his time with me and my brother making sure we were shooting right, safe and getting dialed in. Before we'd leave he would take a single shot at a milk jug anywhere between 100-200 yards and nail it every time. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that's not necessarily a great feat, and that this rifle isn't known for stellar accuracy... but I do think it's a beautiful rifle with nice bluing and a great wood stock, plus the memories I have any time I pick it up. I took it out this October and nailed my first deer with it off hand, still does the trick!

 

[awaldro7]

I have my great grandfathers marlin 30-30. It has 50 to 60 years worth of NC mountain bear hunting under its belt. Every single inch of the gun shows wear. I wouldn't sell or trade that gun for anything. He came from a time where you only had what you needed and used. He had a 22 rifle, 12 gauge, and the 30-30. Sometimes I wish I could be that simple in my desires


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