Guns with a history

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Lets see whats in the safe:

1894 Winchester rifle 38/40cal, Belonged to my Granddad who was a part time sheriff in Mississippi, 1895-1905. There is a matching Colt revolver, a New Service, 61/2" in 38/40.

Sharps Patented Rifle, 45/120cal, in fitted case w/loading gear, sight accessories and cleaning gear. From the other Grampa who was a target (Shultzin?) shooter. German silver bound, leather covered, hardwood case. This rifle has it's own insurence policy!:what:

Tokorov pistol in 7.62 Russian, war trophy of mine, removed from dead NVA in 1972. The only thing I brought back that I don't carry with me everywhere!:D

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My son serving in Afghanistan shipped this Martini back to me last year as a Christmas gift. Picked it up in a gun shop in Kabul....one of the rifles used by the British for the battle of the Khyber Pass. (read more here: http://www.cabarfeidh.com/dargai.htm ) One can only imagine the battles that this rifle participated in during the last 100+ years.

Also have a 10/22 rifle worked on by Tom Volquartsen before he became famous for his .22's, it was later signed and autographed by Charlton Heston.....but that's another story.

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A small-town gunshow brought me one of my most-treasured guns. It's a near-new-condition S&W .357 magnum, an N-frame from about 1956, before S&W used model numbers....hence, it's a "pre-27". On the sideplate is a factory-engraved presentation inscription, indicating the gun was a Camp Perry prize gun for the High Law Enforcement Officer at the 1959 National Matches. S&W Historian Roy Jinks has confirmed the above info in a "factory letter", calling it a "Special Presentation Model" (his capital letters) and detailing its shipment to a Lt. Col. Carpenter at the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, Department of the Army, Washington D.C., in June of '59.

'Nother one....some years back, I had a well-used British Snider single-shot .577 military rifle. It had a pair of DEEP indents in the top of the comb, just ahead of the buttplate. My dentist identified those dents as the imprints of some poor soul's INCISOR TEETH...driven at least 1/4" deep into hard walnut (courtesy of a very well-applied butt-stroke, I'd imagine). Betcha that hurt! A friend who happened to be the local RCMP "lab tech" also identified human blood in the lockplate recess and under the buttplate as well. I REALLY wished that rifle could talk.

My third "history" gun is a 1960-vintage commercial 1911A1. Sadly, the 11-year-old son of a co-worker got this gun out of his Dad's lockup by removing the hinges from the cabinet, and then committed suicide with it. His father didn't want the gun around any longer, after it came back from the RCMP, so I took it off his hands. I view guns as inanimate metal and don't "blame" the pistol in any way, but I also fully understood the parent's wishes.
This .45 has served me well for many years.
 
Zastava Model 70

.32ACP single action from SOG for $ 99 - sort of the Saturday Night Special in my collection (pic attached).

LOTS of holstera wear although few scratches. this gun was CARRIED - not some safe queen.

So I hope it didn't execute any civilians in the multitude of unpleasantness that went on in the former Yugoslav area!
 

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I don't have this one, but at least it's still in the family. My cousin has the 1911 that our great grandfather carried in WW1. Then my grandfather carried it as an officer in an artillery unit in WW2. My grandfather died when my dad was 12, and my great uncle ended up with the 1911. He actually offered it twice to my dad in later years but was turned down, I love my dad but sheesh, and it ended up going to his grandson upon his recent death.

I'm planning on calling my cousin and telling him if he ever thinks of selling that 1911 to call me first. What kind of price can you put on family history like that?

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I have a Winchester 1906 that is WELL worn. Very little blue left and scars on the stock. One of the scars came from my grandfathers Model T. He kept it under the seat when he traveled back and forth to GA Tech. I still remember my grandmother knocking walnuts out of the tree with it.
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Hey, is that a .22 pump?

Ive got the same gun (type) myself. Passed down through the generations. I got it for my 16th birthday.

Its probably the most accurate gun i own too, especially considering its got the same type of sights that pellet rifles use. (Due to the very heavy barrel for a .22 load?)

Still, tin cans fear that thing :evil:

My brother has a 1896 (or therabouts) Savage lever action.
 
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