My favorite old shooter, Now show me yours

Well, favorite old shooter, I dunno, I'd pick a different one every time someone asked, so instead I'm showing my oldest shooter (of the pistol variety, anyway):

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Colt Police Positive, ca 1929.

S&W 17 serial number says it was made in 1959
Still not ready to retire.

Some strange guns here being called "old"..........


This ones comin up on its 105th birthday. Still runs like new.

Still has plenty of life yet.

My oldest shooter, a Gibbons .32 caliber muzzle loader from my Great Great Great Grand dad, circa 1842.

As far as rifles go, one of my favorites, and also happens to be my oldest shooter, period:
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Swedish Mauser M96/38B 6.5 mm - born in Oberndorf in 1900.
This means it was originally an M96 long rifle and re-arsenalled to the M38 short rifle variant, but I don't know when that happened.

Well maybe not one of my oldest shooters (that would be my S&W Model M&P of WWII vintage), but what would be a tie between a couple of my favorite "older" guns (both circa the late '70s), my Beretta Model 70S and my Colt Custom Gun Shop Combat Commander:

Handed down from my great uncle, my parents remember backpacking in the 70's with him and he always had this on his hip. My uncle used to go on canoeing fishing trips with him in the 80's and said he always had it on his hip them too. I still take it to the range fairly regularly.

Fyrstyk said:

My oldest shooter, a Gibbons .32 caliber muzzle loader from my Great Great Great Grand dad, circa 1842.

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Wow! Beautiful!

AMraider said:

Still has plenty of life yet.
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Also one of my favorite shooters- when I could afford to shoot it.......

1958 unconverted three-screw Blackhawk in .357 magnum. I don't shoot it a lot, but it's one of my favorite "old shooters."

You did say 'old shooter'.. This is my J. Probin ("Maker to His R.H. The Prince of Wales") 20 bore (.62 caliber) Officer's Dueller, ca. 1785. I do shoot it, and the target shows 5 shots at 12 yards (proper duelling distance), in duelling cadence (from lowered pistol to firing the shot within 3 seconds).

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Longest two in my possession

However, this is an excellent reminder I need decent photos of the 03A3 and the Mossberg M44, being the oldest made ones in my possession right now.

Previous oldsters were a 1928 Sistema Colt

And my 1932 Cot 1903

Two oldies, one ( 1927) I shoot, the other ( 1913 ) has never been fired after leaving the factory. You can probably tell which one is which. I might get the urge to fire the new one some day but I'm too lazy to clean all of the cosmoline out of its innards. The shoulder stock is original and matching.

Favorite old looking shooters, antiqued Ruger Old Armies with Sambar Stag grips:



Favorite actually old firearm: Grandpa’s 1937 Winchester Model 42 .410 pump shotgun:

Love that Winchester 42. I hope to acquire one someday.

J-Bar said:

Favorite old looking shooters, antiqued Ruger Old Armies with Sambar Stag grips:

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Favorite actually old firearm: Grandpa’s 1937 Winchester Model 42 .410 pump shotgun:

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The condition of your 51 looks superb. The breech block is prone to cracking and impossible to find so I only shoot mild cast reloads in mine.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Also one of my favorite shooters- when I could afford to shoot it.......
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S&W Regulation Police in .32 S&W Long. Circa 1925-ish (?)




Stocks (grips, to us normal folks) are original, numbered to the revolver; hand written in pencil.

It's not a museum piece by any means; barrel has some minor pitting, there are various scratches and the blueing is thin or missing in places. It's just a shooter grade revolver. And, I do shoot it. Trigger is very smooth, and it shoots to the sights with 98gr lead RN ammo.

I took it this past summer to a family shoot, Dad was there. He's 90, and this SW is older than he, which is why I brought it along.

Action shot of Dad, the barrel is is in full recoil (such as it is...).


He really liked the revolver, but wasn't interested in owning it. He's really not a Gun Guy.

Oldest is this one, a DWM from 1916. Not my favorite, but I still love to shoot it, and am always amazed at it's accuracy

It would be the top one, a 1957-58 model 28. My first revolver. It's the same age as I am, I bought it as new old stock for $245.00 in the early 1980s when i was old enough to buy a handgun myself.
The bottom one 4", I bought years later in case I wore out the 6" top one. What a joke.
The bottom was also new old stock and has not be used yet. 1972
The top one is 63 years old and I still waiting for it wear out. I know it will easily out live me at this point. The forcing cone looks like new even after all these years and all that H110.

It's a tie:

1928.



Also 1928. Sorry, I know you all have been posting pistols, but this is in General Gun Discussions.....and none of my pistols are old.