The Year Is 1963... What Are Your Guns of Choice?

[CmdrSlander]

Another fun thread...

Let's say you've been transported back to 1963, you have your current firearms tastes and abilities but none of your guns made it back in time with you. Assuming you can afford basically anything you can find, what would be your primary pistol, rifle, shotgun, and plinker/range gun?

Rifle - Winchester Model 70 with an 18" target crowned barrel and aperture/ghost ring sights., .308 Winchester Caliber.

Pistol - Tuned M1911A1 with high profile sights in the standard GI cuts.

Shotgun - Browning Auto-5, 18.5" barrel

Plinker - Colt SP1 AR15 ('63 was the first year they were available). For a Rimfire, Remington 527 Gallery gun.

 

[bigfatdave]

Some guns wouldn't change (those are marked with a star*)

pistol - Something 1911 based, officer size* existed back then.

rifle - back then it would be a levergun, probably ... I've never liked bolt guns much ... M1 Carbine* if I could get one

shotgun - basic pump action* and/or a combo gun* ... my shotgun tastes are fairly simple

plinker - The Ruger rimfire pistol* was around then, .22lr leverguns* were as well.
The 10/22 is a year away, and the aftermarket on the 10/22 is even further out.
Centerfire plinker would be a PCC levergun, probably - and a surplus autoloading pistol ... were P.38's available back then?

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the fantasy either breaks down or goes out of control when you realize that I'm a big gun nerd with some skill at sketching out designs, at least in rough terms. You wouldn't have a lot of guns you know now in 2013 under the names they're under now, you'd have "Dave's autoblaster 9000", "Dave's plinker 2000" ... and so on.
You also wouldn't have a GCA68 if I had anything to do with it, I imagine that I could make enough money off of (pre-stolen) technology ideas that I'd be able to buy enough congressthings to prevent that nonsense.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Colt Python
New fangled Remington 700
Remington 550 .22lr for general use
Remington 40x .22lr topped with a Unertl for target work
Winchester Model 12

 

[shotgunjoel]

S&W Model 19
M1 Carbine
Ithica 37
Ruger Mk1

 

[Reloadron]

Ruger Model 44 Carbine
M1 Carbine

Ron

 

[TIMC]

My collection would not be much different that from today.
Remington 870
Browning A-5
Remington 700
M1 Carbine
M1 Garand
Winchester mod 62
S&W model 19
Colt 1911

Come to think of it I do own all those. Throw in a few AR's and a couple of AK's and it is my collection today!

 

[kwguy]

Pistol - 1911
Rifle - Colt AR15
Shotgun - Remmie 870
Plinker - AR15

Oh yeah, I would also invent the "Failzero" coating system for my AR15

 

[evan price]

Winchester model 70 rifle
FN-FAL semi auto rifle
s&w 38-44 heavy duty revolver
Browning hipower pistol
Savage 720 semi auto shotgun (clone of auto 5)
Winchester 97 trench gun pump shotgun

 

[Plan2Live]

Well if I went back knowing what I know now, I would set aside my gun fetish for a few years and invest everything I had backing a guy named Same Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas then sit back and wait a few years. By about 1980 I would have all the money I needed to buy pretty much three of everything in existance and then some.

But closer to the post;

High quality .357 revolver with a 4" barrel

Remington 870 with short and long barrels

Remington 700 in 30.06, much more common than .308

Winchester lever guns in 30-30 and 45-70

.22 plinking rifle but would look around and see what's best back then

 

[bannockburn]

Rifle- Winchester Model 70 .30-06
Pistol- Colt Government .45ACP with a Colt Ace .22LR conversion
Shotgun- Ithaca Model 37 12 Gauge
Plinker- Winchester Model 62A .22LR slide action rifle

 

[ZeSpectre]

Let's say you've been transported back to 1963, you have your current firearms tastes and abilities but none of your guns made it back in time with you.

Sorry if it ruins the "game" but I'm another one of those folks who'd "invent" the stuff I wanted. You'd therefore remember the names of Browning, Kalashnikov, Zespectre, as some of the firearms "greats" of the past <evil grin>.

 

[BADUNAME30]

A Daisy model '94. Used it for launchin stick matches.
2nd was a Crossman model 760 Pump Master.
Killed LOTS o' small game with that one.
Carried it on my morning paper route and ridded MANY neighborhood gardens of rabbits.
Mmmm..'magine a kid tryin that today. NO, wait, 'magine a kid havin a paper route.


Used to sneak my dads' Winchester Model '61 out when i could.

Oh, wait, we're takin guns back in time with us.
I would want my custom .220 Swift that i built back in '92. It's built on a single shot, completely 'worked' Mark-X action. A Timney target trigger set at 18 ounces, with a full bull 30" Douglas air gauge Bbl with 11degree target crown and chambered TIGHT. Topped with a Bausch & Lamb 6x24 and fully glass bedded into a custom altered Bell and Carlson.

But, since you said..."anything you can find".
Rifle,..I'd have Nelson Forsythe at Flaig's build me a custom 7mm Express on a Model 70 action. I'd build the stock myself.
Pistol...., ( since i can't have my Series 70 ),torn twixt a Custom groomed 1911 and a Browning High Power.
Shot gun.....the ole Mossberg 500 does everything i ever need in a scatter gun.
Plinker(s).....Anything that burns the holy black.

 

[IlikeSA]

Rifle: as many Model 70's as possible (resale at a later time)
Pistol: 1911 variants
Revolver: Ruger Blackhawk
Shotgun: any pump
plinker: High standard 22

 

[19-3Ben]

I've always preferred the simple "old timey" guns anyway.

For pistols I'd go with S&W K frames, a 1911, and perhaps something like a S&W model 39.

For rifles, lever guns. I would like to get my hands on some $20 Garands and $10 M1 Carbines. That would be one heck of an investment!

Shotguns would be something like Remington model 12, Ithaca 37, etc....

Nothing extravagant.

 

[itchy1]

Rifle: Win Model 70 in 30.06
Shotgun: Browning Superposed 20g
Revolver: Colt Python 4"
Pistol: Browning High Power
Plinker: Colt Woodsman

 

[bikerdoc]

Shotgunjoel said,

S&W Model 19
M1 Carbine
Ithica 37
Ruger Mk1

That's exactly what I had in 63.

 

[RandyC]

Pretty much what I like today.

M1911A1
Colt SAA
Winchester '94 .30-30

A Red Rider BB gun wouldn't be bad either.

 

[JohnBT]

The year was 1963...

... my uncle gave me a Marlin Mountie and later in the year my parents gave me a Fox Model B 12 ga.

I still have the Mountie. My uncle is still alive, too.

 

[Pilot]

Colt Woodsman Match Target for a .22 pistol

Colt 1911A1 .45 ACP

Colt Python

(see a trend)

Browning Hi Power 9MM if I could find one

Winchester M70

 

[blueridgerunner]

Colt Python 3". Took it to Vietnam 2 yrs later as a BUG to the M60 I used in helecopter.

 

[huntsman]

Winchester MD 21 20 gauge upland hunting
Winchester MD 21 12 gauge duck hunting
Winchester MD 94 30/30 deer hunting
Colt SAA .45Colt Plinker
Colt Woodsman .22lr Plinker

 

[jim243]

Walther PP
Browning High Power
High Standard Trophymatic
Move 5 years ahead - Armalite AR-15
Armalite AR-7
Remington 7600

 

[gp911]

Pistol: S&W Registered Magnum

Rifle: BAR

Shotgun: fancy drilling or vierling

Rimfire/plinker: something neat that shot .22 S, L, & LR

 

[Thompson9494]

Rifle: Colt SP-1

Pistol: Browning HP

Shotgun: M1897 Trench Gun (gotta love that slamfiring)

Plinker: AR-7, I guess

 

[Trung Si]

Colt SP1(got one four years later).
Ithaca M37.