what firearm have your parents/grandparents passed down to you

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mrdoublestak

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what are the firearms that have been passed down to you and what memory's make them so dear to you?

i have a stevens bolt action 16 ga plain jane
a garand from korea era
NM m14 that he picked up in the 80's thats been out of the safe like 5 times just to make the guys at the gun club get all misty eyed.
and my father was on the navy pistol team during korea and picked up a colt 38 super match 38 6" that never comes out unless my Father goes with us.
 
A 1911 made by singer sewing machines from WW2, My grandpa wasn't a US citizen during WW2. While he was serving in the British Army He traded his Webley revolver with an American G.I. for the 1911 and kept it after the war and even was allowed to bring it back into this country where it was made when he immigrated from Ireland! I sure they weren't overly concerned about customs back in the late 40's. I rarely take that thing out of the display case I made for it back in high school. Every time I look at it I always think of him and his way of showing all his grandchildren what it means to be a patriot.
 
98% of the guns I own are inherited from my 2 grandfathers. Some of them are pretty valuable money wise, all of them are valuable to me for sentimental reasons. Until I started shooting them, most of them hadn't been shot at all, and if they had been, hadn't been shot in years.
 
My grandfather handed me down a fair amount of firearms about a decade ago, and he told me I only needed to hang onto two of them, the rest I could keep or trade as I saw fit for something I'd like.

1912 Winchester Model 94 Deluxe Takedown in .32 Spl. I believe it's also a custom order with the pistol grip compared to the straight lever on my 92. It was my great-grandfather's rifle, and I shot my first deer with it. It doesn't come out of hibernation very often, just for a good cleaning every few months and an occasional trip to the range. I can send empty 12 gauge hulls flying off the target stands at 50 yards all day long with it.

Mannlicher-Berthier MLE 16 Artillery Carbine. It isn't of any great value and I rarely shoot it, but it is definitely an oddball and interesting rifle. I've only seen two other ones in my short lifetime, but I don't think many of them made it over to this side of the pond.
 
Savage Model 3B .22 which I learned to shoot and now I've given to my son. Reminton Model 14 in .32 Rem - my grandfather's hunting rifle.
 
A 1926 Winchester 94.
A mint wheel sight Belgian Browning SA22.
A very nice Winchester 42 410 pump.
A mint Remington 11 in 12 ga and a well worn Remington 11 in 20 ga.

My grandfather used the 20 ga for years, then decided to move up to the 12. He flushed a pheasant on his first hunt with it and missed on all three shots. He then walked back to the car and pulled out his trusty 20. That's why I now have a mint Remington 11 in 12 ga that's been fired three times. :)
 
My dad kept a shotgun in his closet since at least the day I was born. Interesting that I never ever had the stereotypical childhood fascination with it. I never sneaked into his room to "play" with it. I know he did let me see and touch it under his supervision once but that was it.

Story was that it was given to him by my uncle, my father's brother. Supposedly my uncle brought it back with him from Vietnam so it saw service. My father gave it away quite some time ago long before I ever took an interest in guns. I so wish he still had it. Would be nice to have a relative's weapon that saw service.
 
I've got the Browning B-2000 that my dad duck hunted with while I was growing up (he's now moved on to a Beretta AL-390). I also have a 20 gauge B-2000 that he bought for grouse (but never used). I've got my grandpa's old Model 12, with a split barrel (ouch).

I will eventually get an old Colt SAA, Winchester 1897, and a Winchester lever gun (not exactly sure of the model) that my great grandfather carried while working as a gold prospector in Mexico.
 
I stand to inherit (split with my two other brothers) quite the collection.

C&R wise:
One of every manufacturer of SKS (in some cases my dad has multiples)
Lee Enfields (not sure which ones)
Springfield 03A3
quite a few Mosins in different forms


Then there are various shot guns from .410 to 12 guage.

The CMP M1 Garand I got him and the M1 Carbine (those are mine, no splitting with bro's)

He has a few different AK's as well.



But, the real prized possession that I think I'll get (only cause my older brother isn't really into guns) is the double Damascus barreled 12 guage sawed off shotgun that my great great great Grandpa (might have missed a great in there) carried while riding stage coach.
Not that it could be fired with today's rounds, but the one barrel is cracked rendering it useless, but that doesn't detract from it's history.
 
have a few....one of my favorites is a Derringer from about 1898 that is chamber in 41 caliber rimfire shorts. I picked up some reproduction rounds from navy arms in the late 80s and have fire about 6 rounds through it....pretty cool.
 
My dad left me a Winchester Model 64 in .30-30 purchased new in 1952. Probabaly never had more than 50 shots fired out of it. Perfect condition. I have a photo of him opening it on Christmas day 1952. (Sure wish he kept the box!!). When dad passed away I told my brother the only gun I wanted was the 64. Let him have the rest of them (Win 75 sporter, Colt Police Positive, Marlin 90, etc)
 
A Sauer & Sohn .357 Chief Marshal single action revolver that was given to me as my first pistol and 21st birthday present. Has a crazy hair trigger job on it too. From what he told me, it once belonged to a competition quick draw shooter.
Was my dad's gun, he was actually shot with it too.
A friend of his was in a heated argument with his daughters boyfriend (biker gang member) and the guy picked up a knife, so my dad's friend ran out to my dad's truck and grabbed the gun, ran in waving it in the air and yelling. My dad tried to get in between them and resolve the situation, being the good person he is and then someone tried to be a hero, and picked up the friend from behind, which spooked him and he pulled the trigger. .357 magnum hollow point, through the forearm, into the chest, bounced around, broke a couple ribs, ripped his insides to shreds, and rested just under his skin on his back.
I always thought I would feel strange about having this gun, given it's past, but it honestly doesn't bother me and didn't bother him.
Great gun overall, not worth much as far as market value (read ~$150-250) but quite a bit of sentimental. Very proud to own it.
 
1.) Remington 550-1 Semi auto .22 rifle
2.) Browning Auto 5 12 gauge made in 1950
3.) Remington Model 17 20 gauge pump (action is the Ithaca 37 type).
4.) M-1 Carbine (Inland) Korean war bring-back.
Above from my father. Grandparents did not leave me any firearms.
 
Just like bp cowboy, a LC Smith double barrel internal striker side by side w 30" of barrels.
I came across a listing in a valuation gude a dozen or so years ago that said it was worth a couple thousand dollars back then. Gonna have to look it up again sometime.
Found some serialization info this evening 1 28 11 that leads me to the conclusion that Dad's/Grand-dad's LC Smith was made in 1908.
 
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a ruger rst6 .22cal semi auto

it was my fathers second handgun he traded his colt single action
22/22mag with bone grips for it new back in 1974
i've shoot this more then he did i belive even when he was alive
he would let us sit with him and shoot all the shells we wanted to buy for ourselfs
 
The bottom rifle is a 22lr cal. Stevens/Savage, model 1915, "Favorite" that was given to me by my Aunt after my Uncle died. it is in exellent shape.

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I have my dad's Ruger 10/22, and a S&W 1500 in .270. Between the two of us, we have my grandfather's 1917 Enfield, two Model 97s, one restored in 12, and a hammered, sawed-off one in 16, an M-1 carbine, and a Colt Woodsman .22.

I'm NEVER selling any of them.
 
I have my dad's 1969 Colt 1911. I have 12-41 Remington made 1903 he bought in the 1960s and I have an LC Smith Shotgun that my great grandfather bought new in the early 1900s from the Sears catalog. My brother and I split dad's firearms when he died.
 
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