What is/are your favorite inherited firearms?

[Wispa]

It's nice to read these posts and think to how you all have some great guns with lots of memories, or history, to go along with them.

I'm not going to have any inherited firearms. My father enjoys shooting but never held onto anything he had. I know he hunted a lot in his younger years and enjoyed that quite a bit. I have an uncle in Tennessee who has a nice collection which should go to his son and grandchildren.

I could say I inherited the habit of always wearing ear protection from that same uncle in Tennessee. I think I was about 14 years old and the first gun I ever fired was one of his revolvers. I know it was a .357 snub nose but I don't remember the make or model. We were out by his house which is surrounded by mountains. There was a river behind me and across from that was a large part of the mountain that was like 100 foot solid stone wall. He set up a paper target in the woods so my back was to the water and I was aiming towards the woods. So far so good. Well, he's really old fashioned and didn't use hearing protection ans I guess he figured I didn't need it either. What did I know? This is my first time being around, and using, a gun of any type aside from the various BB and pellet guns I had.

So I stand facing the target, pull pack the hammer and BANG! I couldn't hear a thing for minutes. Well, there was a pipe that was cemented in the ground that shot up fresh spring water like a fountain. I could here the water splashing on the rocks. Even that sounds strange, like radio static. I couldn't hear my uncle or myself talking. I was not a happy camper.

Sorry if I went too far off topic.

 

[Sanjuro82]

I have a few.

Winchester Model 1892 .32-20 WCF octagon barrell (manufactured in 1893). - was my Great Grandfathers
Winchester Model 90 .22 LR (1924 i believe) - was my Great Grandfathers
Smith and Wesson Model 36 Chiefs Special
Belgium Browning Hi-Power (1960s)
Remington 514 .22 (not particularly valuable, but it's the rifle my dad gave to me at age 10)
1954 Remington Wingmaster 12 Gauge

 

[Hot brass]

Smile and says,

 

[Kingofthehill]

S&W Model 12-2.

My father came here legally from El Salvador and when he became a US citizen the first thing he did was buy a firearm for protection.

This is it and he handed it down to me. It will NEVER leave my possession.

 

[Leanwolf]

My great grandfather's Colt's 1860 Army .44 cap-'n-ball pistol.

He got it as a "battlefield pickup" after one of his "engagements" in the Civil War, from a dead Yankee officer. He and his brother (my great great uncle) were in Co. B, 40th Georgia Inf.

L.W.

 

[Ole Coot]

Has to be my Dad's Remington Browning bought new and used until his death. Also my grandpa's Winchester 97. He grew fond of them during WWI and a few others that don't mean as much as these two.

 

[the foot]

Has to be my uncle Mason's L C Smith side by side, field grade 16 gauge from 1932. Best quail gun I own, can't be beat.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Dad left me a Colt 1903 Pocket auto.

 

[R.Ph. 380]

My Grandad's Colt 1903 Pocket Pistol he carried for 60 years. Built in 1919 Original grips. Well worn with "character"

 

[ArtP]

My father, who is still alive, gave me an original Remington Rand 1911 45 ACP in beautiful condition. I think it was made in 1945.

My father worked in a horrible part of Oakland California, surrounded by barbed wire (a machine shop). He used to keep the 45 in his tool box. Naturally it was surrounded by grease, oil and other hydrocarbons that kept it in very good condition.

My father always prefered revolvers and I gave him a S&W 357 with all the fixin's and just bought him a Rem 870 for next to his bed. Guilty was I?

 

[XxWINxX94]

95% of my guns are inherited. A fantastic collection with a variety of fine firearms that I couldn't be more happy with.

Everything from an 1873 Winchester to a Romanian AK, to a vintage S&W model 29, to a Beretta A303 NIB, and an unfired Winchester model 94 Centennial won in a shooting contest.

The few I bought were to "fill in the gaps" of the collection. Such as a Garand, a Taurus Judge, a P38, and Mosin Nagant.

 

[JohnnyOrygun]

About 20 years ago I bought my Father a S&W Model 60 for Fathers Day to replace his lost Colt D.S., when he passed away a few years ago Mom gave it back to me. She recently passed too and I ended up with her old Charter Arms Undercover. The model 60 has a little more sentimental value to me, since it was a gift from me to my Dad. But I will take care of both of them and never plan on selling either one. I will pass on the Charter Arms to my son when he is a old enough for it, but I think he will have to wait for my passing to get the model 60, which Lord Willing will be a long time!

 

[the iron horse]

A 16 ga. single shot shotgun my grandafther
gave to me a few years before he died.

He bought it, through mail order, from Sears and Robuck around 1915.

It was a nice shotgun and I hunted with it and brought home a lot
of squirrels.

About a year before he passed on, he asked me to bring it back to him.
He was having trouble with some dogs getting into his trash and he wanted
to scare them away.

He died not long after and if any of you know how it goes after a grandparent dies without a legal Will......

I never saw that shotgun again.

 

[Captcurt]

I have my grandfather's old model 60 Winchester 22. It has a big gouge in the stock from a bike wreck and looks as if it was dragged behind a truck. The gun wouldn't bring $20 from a blind man, but I will own it until I leave this world.

 

[mcmurry]

I've got several inherited shotguns, but my favorite is my first gun, a .22 rifle I got when I was two. I'm sure that the reason I got it and the reason it's my favorite, is it belonged to my grandfather and is quite literally busted. I have shot it but the barrel is bent and the stock is broke and epoxied back together, curtesy of an attacking hog,no name or numbers anywhere on it, it looks and operates like one of those Crickets. Shoots .22 shorts and longs but not Long Rifle.

 

[HOWARD J]

NONE

Dad was in WW1 &WW2----he did not like guns................

 

[Rittmeister]

My granddad brought home a Femaru .32acp semi-auto from WWII. Picked it up off a windowsill in a deserted town that his unit moved through in France. When he and Grandma broke up the house and moved into a retirement community, he gave it to me. It shot straight and worked well, but sadly it was stolen from my apartment almost 10 years ago

 

[asahrts]

M1A carbine - pieced together with various replacement parts over the years, but the receiver is from Dec 1941. still looks & shoots great

S&W K frame revolver my grandfather carried as a police officer.

 

[Blown6L]

Close call. Either a Winchester 1906 in 22 long or an Colt Officers 22lr. Guess I'm a bit more partial to the Colt. Has the adjustable front sight and a beautiful trigger pull. Both were my grandfathers which were passed down to my Uncle who has since passed along to me. I'll do the same when the time comes. Either my son or nephew will wind up with them.

 

[84B20]

I only have one firearm that was inherited and it was from my FIL, the rest I bought myself and it is this:

I did add the scope and bipod.

 

[Shimitup]

So far it's my Granddads Remington model 24. I've had it 30 years now, a sweet shooter. Mine was made in 1933. For those that don't know the gun, it's the Browning design .22 with a take down barrel.

 

[JTH]

A double barrel 10 gauge shotgun. I'm still trying to get more infor on it, it has Continental enscribed on barrel with date 1864. In it's condition, I wouldn't even consider shooting it but sure wish I could find more history on it.
JT

 

[Stinger97]

My 1917 303 British Enfeild, Savage 300 from my father and a Mossberg 12 guage pump and a bolt action .22 that my grandfather told me and my father to give to me on his deathbed.........R.I.P Grandpa

 

[Iam2taz]

.16 gauge Browning Shotgun. - Its got the engraving... Sweet Sixteen on the side... and it has the best pattern of any shotgun I have. Many a ham has come home from the shoot at Thanksgiving because of that shotgun. Handed down from my Granddad.
Hey, they are having a turkey shoot in a couple of weeks..... I wonder.....

My mom has a .32 Colt pocket pistol that will be mine someday. My grandfather carried it everywhere! There was no telling what he could pull out of those bib-overalls!

 

[rozziboy18]

ruger security 6 357 my grandpa's
ruger m77 270 gift from maw and paw