Guns of my father

[kBob]

so I was wondering if two of the mounting holes in that M82 mount might line up with the holes on this .30 1919
MG?

 

[earlthegoat2]

When my grandfather passed, he had a few working mans guns. The ones I remember were a Stevens Crackshot, Ruger 10/22, Ruger MKII, Remington 870, and Stevens 311.

The Crackshot is the one I wanted most because wit was always the gun that sat by the back door to shoot woodchucks out of his garden. Basically it is the gun I remember him by as a rarely ever saw any of the others.

(Kind of a thread hijack coming)

Apparently someone else thought the same thing because it was gone when I got my chance at them. I didn’t really want any of the others so I got the thing that I also remembered him most by. The antlers of an eight point he shot in the 1950s within the 60 acres of property my dad bought and I subsequently grew up hunting on.

Here is the antlers on the right with my own buck shot over 50 years later on the exact same ground on the left.

 

[Ks5shooter]

I envy you,as I am the first gen gun owner in my family. Savor those memories as they cant be replaced.

 

[don quixote]

Only one family heirloom firearm and my brother got it, a Colt revolver our grandfather carried as a guard for Philadelphia Transit post WWII. Brother Al traded it for a Hi-Point in 9mm.

That’s grounds for excommunicating him, or at least pistol whipping him with that POS boat anchor he got for that heirloom