Your Gun-Owning Grandmothers

[Kind of Blued]

Sparked by this hilarious video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjUpR7qwNE

I've been around here for a while and have never seen this, but in case everybody else has already seen it, I figured a back up plan wasn't a bad idea. So tell us about your gun-owning grandmothers and any great stories you have of them.

My grandfather passed away a couple years ago, but my grandma bought a yappy dog, moved the Ruger Security Six to her side of the bed, and just got along unbelievably well. She's an incredible woman and doing fine living on her own.

 

[graybeard321]

My Grandmother will be 99 on 2 weeks and she still sleeps with a loaded 32 pistol in the night stand. It was my grandmother who introduced me to shooting. I have many fond memories of shooting with my grandmother. I was depressed this morning supposed to go to the range with a friend and it is raining hard out. bit reading this thread put me in a good place. My wife and I are grandparents now and we can't wait to take our grandsons shooting.

 

[Kind of Blued]

That's good to hear graybeard. Keep the tradition alive.

 

[shadowalker]

My grandmother has a CWL, bought me my P90, has given me a S&W 629 44 Mag, and a LAR Grizzly 45 Win Mag.

She still has all her rifles, and still sleeps with a bed side gun. We used to go behind the house or down to the cabin and shoot.

 

[Rustynuts]

We need more old school granny's in the Senate, House, and Supreme Court! Mine used to keep a loaded 22 rifle next to the door for varmints - human and otherwise. The old timers have a much more practical view of guns as a tool, not some evil possessing minion of the devil or something.

 

[Cmdr. Gravez0r]

One of my early childhood memories involves my grandma shooting at a pesky stray dog with a Daisy Red Ryder from the hip--and hitting.

 

[KD5NRH]

Grandma had a Scoremaster .22, but generally relied on granddad to take care of things that needed to be shot. She knew how to deal with a problem, but preferred not to have to deal with the mess afterward.

Granddad, OTOH, was a firm believer in the versatility of the 20ga. He had a fair-sized gun collection, and shot heavy rifles and magnum 12ga with no trouble, but when something just needed to be put down, whether it was a coyote, rabid opossum, or an unsalvageable cow, he used a 20.

 

[rantingredneck]

My grandmother is 84.

My grandfather's old S&W Model 10 is hanging on a nail on the bedroom wall. LOADED

I know, I know, I've had the talk with her about hanging a loaded revolver on a wall on a nail, but she won't listen..........

 

[rantingredneck]

I think it's been hanging there for 30+ years.

 

[siglite]

My granny (no longer with us) was a big fan of the ole 870.

 

[glocker82]

wow that's a really old vid...no pun intended

 

[Nikdfish]

Granma (a crack shot with a .22 rifle) has passed on, but I recently handed down her old H&R .32 SWL bedside snubbie to our youngest daughter...

Nick

 

[TexasBen317]

I remember clear as day light going out with my daddy's mother in the panhandle of OK early one frosty morning and her shooting a cottontail for breakfast.. had to be in the late 50s or so. She died in 70 something near 100.
Used a Steven 410 bolt action, and It is in my closet now,, got a broken ejector pin but nice looking good shooting gun.. She had other guns, but sorry, I don't remember what all nor where they went.

 

[AndrewGWU]

My grandmother is short and weights 115 soaking wet, but can handle a S&W Model 29 44Mag like a man.