Oh Heck. I forgot this was in "handguns" and not "general."
Mine would be my Sears-Roebuck 12 gauge, 3" Magnum pump. I can't say I shot it a lot, but it was my buckshot gun. I carried it many a mile in a gun rack in my Bronco, strapped to roll bar of a Jeep, tossed in the back of a pickup truck, or slung over my shoulder on a sling. It never let me down. Every deer it was ever pointed at hit the ground and never got up again.
I did the camo job myself. That's right. I'm "Bubba." Have been all my life. My wife thought it was an insult the first time she heard me called that.
It's not the shooting I remember. It's frosty mornings on stand, sun just up, hearing a tailgate drop, the dog driver start up with "Hikeeeee, Hikkkeee....then a dog hits...woooooo...woooooo....the sound changes...HE's UP...the entire pack cuts in...WOOOO WOOOOO...the chase turns, and heads toward me. I'm on full alert now. Watching toward the sound, but remembering to check 360. Never know how far ahead of the dogs he might be, or there might be another one trying to sneak out of the area.
I don't hunt anymore. I got distracted by little green fish and a bass boat and went to fishing all year long. But on a early fall morning, I find myself missing it. Not so much the hunting even. I miss the guys at the club. Some of them are gone now. We're all a lot older. The land and the laws have changed. The club house burned down, and someone built a big new house there. I don't know where or even IF they still have a club. I'm now one of those old guys who would get there about 9 am, may-be and never go into the woods, but would park their trucks and just listen for the dogs, and to the CB radio to keep up with what was going on. I wonder, do they even use CB's anymore? Probably not. It's probably cell phone and text messages.
But anyway, I still have that Sears pump gun. I see it every time I open the safe to get out a handgun. I'll take it out once in a while and clean and oil it. I wonder of it's got aches and pains now?
Maybe I'll get it out later, and talk to it a bit.