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Sorry if this isn't a property place for these.

But anyone have a firearm that's been passed down in their family?I always enjoyed seeing a nice revolver someone's father's carried as a cop or an old no name .22 great grandma used to fed her and her siblings during the depression.

Sadly, I don't have many guns passed down in my family. My great uncle on my father's side had a nice marlin in .32 special as well as a model 60 but that's currently at my father's. My great grandfather had an SAA he use to carry but it's on a side of the family that's hard to get to and speak with.

My grandfather wasn't a gun person but he did have this old New England 410 single shot. It's not much but it's a treasure of mine. He also had some Iver Johnson revolver that was nickle plated I remember seeing. Im not sure where that went.

Anyone else have a nice firearm that's been passedd down?
 
Seedy Character said:
Most of the "heirlooms" are not lottery equivalents, BUT, mine are priceless to me.

I have Grandma's 1915 Iver Johnson .410 single shot. View attachment 1068751
Papa's Remington Model 11 12 ga
Dad's Remington 1953 870 with corn cob forearm.
F-i-L's Sear's 1948 J. C. Higgins bolt action .22
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What matters the most is that their family's! Not a bad collection at all
 
I'm very tempted to try and make contact with mother's side of the family to see if they still have the SAA and see what it is exactly, a colt or a Blackhawk and see if I can get Factory papers with it
 
I wish I could participate. My grandfather handed down a Winchester Model 1890 .22 short pump action take down "gallery gun". During my state imposed 12 month separation period leading up to my divorce my divorce attorney strongly recommended I get all firearms out of my residence so I entrusted this heirloom to my former brother-in-law. During the time he had custody of the rifle, his new wife allowed her crack addict son to move in with them. Need I say more? I no longer have that rifle and would pay a steep price to get it back.
 
No hand-me-down guns in my family. Neither of my parents were shooters, although they both had guns in the family when they were growing up. My mom always hoped one of her dad's guns would end up with me, but other family members seem to have snapped them up ... always a sore spot with my mom. My paternal grandfather wasn't a shooter, and he sold or gave away his shotgun when he moved from PA to FL when my dad was in high school. I did inherit my FIL's 1960s vintage Remington 700 in 7mm Magnum, and he gave one of my daughters his single-shot shotgun that she has hunted with since.
 
Sure, I have a couple. I have my maternal Grandfather's Winchester M37 16 gauge single-shot, and his New Haven 251 automatic 22lr. Cheap guns, but priceless to me. I cut my shooting teeth on them and as far as I'm concerned will stay with me until I'm dead and gone. My dad gifted me his Remington 700 30-06 about ten years ago, mom bought it for him on their first wedding anniversary along with a Redfield Widefield (which he kept, darn it!). It has accounted for a lot of suppers since then. I have a couple other guns that were passed from relatives, but these three are the most important ones of all.

Mac
 
I have a Hamilton Model 27 my Grandpa got by selling salve when he was around 7 years old (1914). Years later he owned a garage in the small town our family settled in. He kept a Savage-Stevens bolt action single shot .22 there for people to use if the needed something to shoot a hog or beef for butchering. It's in pretty rough shape but I still have it. My cousin inherited our great grandfather's Winchester 1873 in 32-20 he bought new.
 
I've got a Golcher percussion muzzleloader that has to be from the mid 1800s. Don't know how long it has been in the family, I got it from my grandfather. The oldest one I can date for sure is my grandfather's Winchester 94 in 30-30 that he bought new in 1926. I also have two Remington Model 11s. One is a 20 ga that's about worn out. The other is a 12 ga that's in mint condition.

The story is that my grandfather used the 20 ga for years and decided it was time for a new shotgun, so he bought the 12 ga new. On his next hunting trip he took the 12 ga, flushed a pheasant and missed with all three shots. He then walked back to the car, put the 12 ga back in the case, took out the 20 and used it for the rest of his life.
 
natman said:
I've got a Golcher percussion muzzleloader that has to be from the mid 1800s. Don't know how long it has been in the family, I got it from my grandfather. The oldest one I can date for sure is my grandfather's Winchester 94 in 30-30 that he bought new in 1926. I also have two Remington Model 11s. One is a 20 ga that's about worn out. The other is a 12 ga that's in mint condition.

The story is that my grandfather used the 20 ga for years and decided it was time for a new shotgun, so he bought the 12 ga new. On his next hunting trip he took the 12 ga, flushed a pheasant and missed with all three shots. He then walked back to the car, put the 12 ga back in the case, took out the 20 and used it for the rest of his life.
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I wouldn't blame him to be honest.
 
460Shooter said:
I have a Sheridan .20 caliber pellet gun and a Remington Nylon 66 that my Grandfather gave me.
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I also have an old pellet gun from my grandparents they used to ward of feral dogs from getting in their chickens. I recently took it for a spin last year while I was sick at home and had nothing to do. Still fired well for a no name one.
 
I had my grandfather's (on Dad's side) Winchester model 40 shotgun. It had malfunctioned on a hunting trip when my Dad was loading it and a shell detonated during the cycling of the action while it was out of battery and ruined the action. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness. Upon request of my Dad's youngest brother, I gave it to him.
I have my father's Browning Double Auto Twelvette (CA.1969) that he hunted with until he was no longer able to hunt.
Also, I have my grandfather's (Mom's side) single shot 12 Ga. H&R hardware store branded shot gun he bought right after he returned from WWII. It was his varmint gitter around the farm. He was not a hunter. I replaced the butt stock because the original had split behind the rounded tang and I made a beavertail fore end to replace the splinter fore end it came with.
I try to hunt with each of them at least once a year during pheasant season.
 
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natman said:
The story is that my grandfather used the 20 ga for years and decided it was time for a new shotgun, so he bought the 12 ga new. On his next hunting trip he took the 12 ga, flushed a pheasant and missed with all three shots. He then walked back to the car, put the 12 ga back in the case, took out the 20 and used it for the rest of his life.
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Great story! I love it!!
It sounds like something I might do....:what:
 
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