What is your oldest firearm?

[AK Troutbum]

I got a handful of old Winchester levers, (actually a small arsenal of old Winchester’s in general), but this is probably one of my favorites. It’s a model 1873 chambered in .32 WCF circa 1893.

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[RnnHntr]

Oldest is a .62 caliber percussion rifle with an 1848 date on the lock. It is still in good shape and I still shoot and occasionally hunt with it. Next oldest is a W.C. Scott and Sons 12-guage percussion shotgun dated 1865 in excellent, as-restored, condition that handles as would be expected for a best-grade English shotgun. I also hunt with it.

 

[mavinwa2]

my family, passed down rifle: Great Grandpa>Grandpa>my father>to my possession in 2014.
Winchester 94, circa 1901, rechambered to 32 Win Spl in 1935.
My first buck @ age 10, my first bull @age 12 and many years later, this spike bull elk 2016 @ age 59.

 

[AK Troutbum]

Oldest is a .62 caliber percussion rifle with an 1848 date on the lock. It is still in good shape and I still shoot and occasionally hunt with it. Next oldest is a W.C. Scott and Sons 12-guage percussion shotgun dated 1865 in excellent, as-restored, condition that handles as would be expected for a best-grade English shotgun. I also hunt with it.

I’d love to see some pictures of these if you wouldn’t mind sharing.


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[Macintosh]

1913 AH Fox is the oldest I still have.

 

[RockAndSage]

Picked up this fun wall-hanger 10ga for a song a few years ago. Marked "JJ Weston", a Belgian maker, and from what I can tell the gun looks pre-1898 from the proof marks, but not really sure. High likelihood the Wells Fargo stuff is all fabricated, probably in the 1960s, but nobody's been able to tell me either way.


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[Nykki]

I picked up an old Marlin chambered in 32-40 a couple years ago. It's pre 1920 but not real sure on the age.

 

[RnnHntr]

I’d love to see some pictures of these if you wouldn’t mind sharing.


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Here you go! The ramrod on the shotgun does not really extend beyond the muzzle, it just slipped out a bit and I didn't notice when I took the picture. The ramrod on the rifle is a replacement. Both are in amazing shape for guns that are 160 and 177 years old.

 

[whoop]

1910 Model 1894 in 25-35 WCF, topped with a weaver 330

 

[Felton]

I have a first year production Winchester model 94 30-30 made in 1897. No pictures as it’s in storage because I’m in between houses at the moment.

 

[North of 60]

A .38 Long Colt - a model 1877 Colt Lightning manufactured in 1904. Pretty sure that was the first year/first model of a double action revolver.

This gun belonged to my grandfather who gave it t my great-grandmother when he went off to WW 2. I really would have like to have known him. He was a deputy sheriff killed in the line of duty in 1954.

 

[casey36]

1912 Ithaca Flues model. 16ga sxs
1951 Marlin 336 .30-30
1959 S&W M17 4 screw, no dash .22

 

[Shraggs]

Pre ww2, like 1933 Winchester 94 in 32 win spl. My first bought buy me used. Killed a pile before I was told you need more gun… modern sight helps with prescription eyewear.

I inherited my grandfather’s Winchester model 1902 in 22 short/long. For decades it was his only gun used to hunt deer, dispatch trapped critters and head shoot chickens.

Both still used and accurate.

 

[ozyclint]

1910 Model 1894 in 25-35 WCF, topped with a weaver 330

How many MILS per turn on those turrets?

 

[DLSJR]

My oldest current rifle is a model 70 from 1942. However, that’s just the action. The rest of the rifle has been re-built into a .375 H&H with a Brown Precision stock, Shilen barrel and Timney trigger.

The oldest fully intact rifle I ever owned was a 1923 Rigby double in 470 Nitro Express. But I sold that rifle.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

1912 Ethica garde 4 double barrel 12 guage. Belonged to my grandfather. Just used it a few weeks ago on dove hunt.

Also have G serial numbered Marlin Winchester 30-30. IIRC G is 50s serial number.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

A Confederate Sharps made in Richmond in 1863. My grandfather found it in a barn in Maine and cleaned it up a bit. It is not in firing condition as far as I am concerned, but it is a nice piece of history.

 

[RockAndSage]

A Confederate Sharps made in Richmond in 1863. My grandfather found it in a barn in Maine and cleaned it up a bit. It is not in firing condition as far as I am concerned, but it is a nice piece of history.

Pics, man...

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Pics, man...

I’ll get some the next time I am at the location it is stored. I don’t keep it in my house. Don’t worry though… it’s not out in the barn.

 

[RockAndSage]

I’ll get some the next time I am at the location it is stored. I don’t keep it in my house. Don’t worry though… it’s not out in the barn.

Pretty cool find though. About when did your grandfather find it?