GREAT vintage photogallery of people with guns.

[jlbraun]

http://www.squareamerica.com/guns1.htm

My favorite:

"Robert and Buster, 1924"

 

[boredelmo]

Brilliant:

 

[Cosmoline]

Keep in mind the "four rules" weren't invented when a lot of these shots were taken. I like this one:

 

[Geronimo45]

Lady with what appears to be a 1911.
http://www.squareamerica.com/images/gun75.jpg

Ear protection. Don't see that too often in old photos.
http://www.squareamerica.com/images/gun37.jpg

"I don't want my picture took!"
http://www.squareamerica.com/images/gun73.jpg

 

[Erik]

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[Sistema1927]

In addition to a serious rifle, check out this gal's hogleg.

 

[35Rem]

Yes, that's a model 8 Remington she's got. Cool rifles, check out the link in my signature. Interesting choice. Apparently they were pretty popular in the West, especially with Rangers. That lady is loaded for bear, for sure.

 

[Caimlas]

Awesome! Thanks!

Looks like taking photos of your girl holding a gun has been the thing for us gun owners to do for quite a while.

I really like that one with the 1938 Ford (I think) - just wish it was bigger. It'd make an awesome postcard.

 

[Polishrifleman]

That's great!

How many of us can remember these days and again boast that the neighborhood kids still get together and do this.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Now we know why grammaw and grampaw are deaf:

A life filled with gunfire without the benefit of muffs.

 

[JesseL]

Is that a vintage Mosin sporter in the middle?

 

[Geronimo45]

Is that a vintage Mosin sporter in the middle?

Looks like an 1880s/90s-era Mauser. With a sporter stock.

 

[Ash]

Nope, that's a Mosin. I'll bet fifty bucks it's a Remington-made M91 sold through the DCM.

Ash

 

[michiganfan]

Americans and guns. It is a love affair. I am smitten by new love way too often for my budget.

 

[Beatnik]

Wow. I know the rules weren't around, but apparently a shocking number of people used to think it's ok to point guns at loved ones.

http://www.squareamerica.com/images/gun12.jpg

"Suh, honah must be satisfahd!"

 

[jlbraun]

Wow. I know the rules weren't around

I honestly think that it's pretty easy to believe people would point "unloaded" guns at each other, absent training. The "treat all guns as if loaded" is the hardest for even experienced shooters to understand.

 

[AZ_Rebel]

First Job

My first job at age 12 (1956)... Professional Hunter - Blackbirds in Corn Fields. Rifle & Ammo (Cooey Single Shot .22Short) supplied - $2.00/Day.

Those were the days...

 

[jrfoxx]

Very cool.Here's a favorite of mine, from American Rifleman a while back.This is in Michigan (where I spent my first 26 years) from 1929.LOVE this picture!This would make the MMM freak out today.....
Bonus points for ID'ing the guns

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

Great photo's, Thanks.

 

[SamTuckerMTNMAN]

I'm only thirty, my childhood was very different from where we are today. My grandpa and dad and I, and friends often shot together. Don't tell me things aren't changing. And I suspect it's no accident. Great pictures thanks a bunch.

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[CletusFudd]

I'm 57 and was raised in Tennessee. We used to walk the streets in Nashville with our surplus 06' Springfields ($15 at Bernie's Army/Navy Surplus on Charlotte Pike in West Nashville) on the way to go shooting and no one got their panties in a wad about it. Now the SWAT team would be called, the juvenile terrorists would be surrounded after their dogs were shot and a police sniper would take them out. Okay, okay I'm maybe exaggerating a little.

The photos were great, especially the kids in the leather flight helmets.

 

[jrfoxx]

The photos were great, especially the kids in the leather flight helmets.

yep, thats my favorite part of that pic too, in spite of me being too young to have been around for that trend, my father likely just missed it, and hit the coon skin cap trend of the 40's....

 

[sublimaze41]

Nice thread. Here are some of my favorites

Ahh Heston

The Peckster?? Krag Rifle ??



Audie




Finally.....Not classic.....Yea it's classic

 

[mnrivrat]

jrfoxx - neat pic here's a shot at the ID's

From upper left going right : Single shot breal open shotgun, Winchester 1890 pump .22RF, Remington Model 12 Pump .22RF

Lower left : Savage Single shot bolt .22RF , Remington Model 12 pump .22rf , and I believe a .22 RF Break open Iver Johnson revolver.

Ya, Peck is sporting a Krag

 

[hexidismal]

"Robert and Buster, 1924"

You think Buster is the dog.. or the gun ?