How about a thread for old timers who have bought, sold, traded, and given away guns all their lives, but have a few precious guns they would not part with for love nor money. I have 3.
1. An old, now dysfunctional, Iver Johnson single shot 410 that my dad received as a gift when he was a boy around the year 1915. He taught me and my 3 brothers how to shoot squirrels with it. It came to me when my dad died in 1983. It is on display in my den.
2. A Winchester 67A, single shot .22 I bought in a pawn shop in 1965 so I could hunt squirrels. It was the first gun I bought after leaving home as a kid. It occupies a special place in my gun cabinet and is employed occasionally to dispatch pesky possums that get in my trash.
3. A Remington 541S equipped with a Leupold VX 3 2.5X8. Bougth around 1975 after I left college in 1973 and started to earn decent money...the scope of course came later. It is now my favorite squirrel rifle that shoots one-hole groups in paper targets and squirrels.
It is interesting as I sorted through, in my head, all the guns I have that my favorites are all related to squirrel hunting. Having hunted all over the country and owned dozens of different guns and now 65 years old, I still hunt squirrels and my favorite hunting partner is my 75 year old brother. We shoot the same rifle. I look forward to your stories.
1. An old, now dysfunctional, Iver Johnson single shot 410 that my dad received as a gift when he was a boy around the year 1915. He taught me and my 3 brothers how to shoot squirrels with it. It came to me when my dad died in 1983. It is on display in my den.
2. A Winchester 67A, single shot .22 I bought in a pawn shop in 1965 so I could hunt squirrels. It was the first gun I bought after leaving home as a kid. It occupies a special place in my gun cabinet and is employed occasionally to dispatch pesky possums that get in my trash.
3. A Remington 541S equipped with a Leupold VX 3 2.5X8. Bougth around 1975 after I left college in 1973 and started to earn decent money...the scope of course came later. It is now my favorite squirrel rifle that shoots one-hole groups in paper targets and squirrels.
It is interesting as I sorted through, in my head, all the guns I have that my favorites are all related to squirrel hunting. Having hunted all over the country and owned dozens of different guns and now 65 years old, I still hunt squirrels and my favorite hunting partner is my 75 year old brother. We shoot the same rifle. I look forward to your stories.