What is the nicest gun you were ever given as a gift?

[tark]

Mine would be my avatar.

 

[lightman]

Mine would be a very early 2nd generation Colt SAA in 45 Colt. Or a very early Colt Woodsman Match Target.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

My SW 25-5. My son bought it for me. And my mossberg 500 20 GA. It's not fancy. But it was from my dad. He got it for me. The day i took my hunter safety course.

 

[Nasty Canasta]

Never been gifted a gun. Closest I got was Mrs inherited a basically new 12ga Winchester 1200 pump but she farmed me out to work on one of her friends house before she’d give it to me. I would have been happier buying it on my own but did the work & got the shotgun.

 

[Frulk]

Two way tie for me. Savage 99 in .358 Win and a Wyoming Arms in .45 ACP.

Both from an aging friend who was scaling back his small collection.

 

[chicharrones]

A Swiss K31 from my brother for Christmas back when K31s were selling for under $100.00.

 

[chiefs-special-guy]

My F-I-L's 1936 Winchester Model 12 20 gauge. I will never lose that one.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Hard to chose. Nothing fancy but appreciated.

Winchester 94-22
Sig p226
Winchester 94 (centennial model)
Uberti Schofield
Uberti cattleman

Pops is one helluva Pops

 

[theotherwaldo]

Grandpa Tony left me a Remington Model 11.
It was a bit of a battle within the family to actually get it.
I got to keep it a couple of months before Dad took it and traded it for a 14 foot 1954 Shasta travel trailer with no title.
He thought that he then owned the trailer,
I disagreed.
My gun, my trailer.
This little trailer was often my home or place of business for about a decade.

No other gun was ever given to me.

I later found another Model 11 that I have kept in memory of Grandpa Tony.

 

[red rick]

Belgium Browning A5 12 gauge shotgun from my dad when I was about 13 years old .

 

[HKGuns]

My first two guns were bequeathed to me by my favorite uncle when I was round 12. I'd rather have had him around longer, but the guns were great when I was growing up.

Ruger 10/22
FIE Bronco 410

I won a Franchi AL48 28 at an SCI event which is the extent of the guns not purchased by me.

How does gun forum software not know how to spell Ruger or Franchi?

 

[BobABQ]

The nicest would be my Father’s firearms.

 

[Steve Milbocker]

My Model 12 that my dad gave me for my 14th Birthday. I’ll be 68 in a couple weeks

 

[.38 Special]

Nicest gun overall would be the S&W Model 1950 Military given to me out of the blue by a friend who knew I was a gun nut.

Nicest gift as a gun was a crude caplock rifle built from a kit by my grandfather, which also was the first gun I ever fired. Grandpa remembered, and made sure it was willed to me.

 

[LocoGringo]

A 29" barreled custom built CZ Mauser action 30-06 made by my Grandpa Bell and given to me when I was a young teenager.

 

[American_Fusilier]

I only have received two. Both aren't "nice", but I was super happy getting both of them.

A Remington 760 gamemaster in 30-06 that belonged to my great grandpa.

A Henry H001 lever action 22lr that my grandpa gave me, it was my first real gun.

 

[zdc1775]

My grandfather gave me the Colt Trooper 357 that his mother had bought for him when he graduated the police academy after coming back from Vietnam after he had a stroke and started developing dementia. He had carried it everyday of his 25 year police career, including the last 10 years when he also drove a school bus for the local high school; not surprisingly he never really had any of the problems the other bus drivers had on his bus during that time.

 

[tominboise]

A Winchester pre 64 Model 70 in 270WCF, from my Dad's business partner. This was about 1975 or so. It shot great then, and it still shoots great with 130gr bullet and 59gr of H4831

 

[PapaG]

Stainless Ruger Old Army when I completed my machinist apprenticeship.

 

[badkarmamib]

When I turned 12, my dad gave me the first gun he bought after moving to VA, a 1986 JM Marlin 336 in .30-30. Hunted with it for 10 years, kinda retired it when I bought my .30/06. When my oldest son turned 12, I carried on the tradition of passing it down.

 

[The Night Rider]

"Given" might be a stretch but when I signed for that bastard it was mine.

 

[Deus Machina]

My father gave me my Ruger 22/45 Mk3.
It's not beautiful or artistic. It's a very basic, no-nonsense, solid gun that does exactly what it was designed to do more reliably and better than most other guns up to, and possibly including, twice the price.
It's exactly what dad stands for, shops for, and is as a person.
For that, it's perfect.

 

[WestKentucky]

Glenfield 30a. My grandpas rifle. Stolen while he laid dying at the nursing home by an addicted cousin who sold it at the pawn shop. It came up as stolen and grandma bought it back along with a few others but miraculously after I took her grocery shopping and to pick up the guns she very intentionally forgot that the guns were in the car. I was told to take them home and not let the rest of the family know that I have them. Dad knows, but his brother doesn’t and none of my cousins do. The cousin who stole them died of long term drug use wearing the body down. The guns don’t see much use, but I get that cheapo 336 out regularly and I do occasionally deer hunt with it.

 

[Bazoo]

God has blessed me to have a friend. My friend blessed me with this Turnbull finished Winchester 1892 Takedown Deluxe rifle chambered in 44 Remington Magnum. God has surely blessed me!

 

[Gladius]

As an actual gift, it would have to be a Ruger 10-22. As guns I inherited from my father (including an M1 Garand I gave him the money to buy, so it was a gift to him that I ended up with), there are several and they're all good (hard to decide between the "pre-18" S&W K22 and the unissued Gustloff Werke 98K, but those weren't the only ones I received). I was given a 1914-vintage Colt 1911, but it was more for safekeeping (very long term) than an actual gift.