What Was Your Fathers Favorite Firearm ?

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My brother has it now...I cannot remember who made it but its a "Long Tom".
A single shot .12 ga. made we think around the 1920's for goose hunting. He got
it back in the 50's for 12.00 from a guy, but it wasn't suppose to of been sold....what
is different to the point some gun dealers won't believe until they see it, is that it
has a 42" barrel....he was once offered 1000.00 for it back in the 80's.....any guesses
who made it until I get ahold of my brother...?
 
Thankfully, my father is still with us and hunting every chance he gets. It would be hard to pick a favorite from the many he owns, but I could narrow it down to two. Either a Stevens pump 12-gauge. (Not that it's anything special, but my mother bought it for him before they got married. That's been over 40 years ago. Still shoots like a dream.) Or maybe it's the .308 win built on a 98 mauser action. It was built by a buddy of his who can work pure magic. There have been many whitetails fall to it.
 
My dad was a successful business owner in early fifties in E. St. Louis,Ill. Yeah, the Buster Wortman era and all that. In those days, daily receipts had to be hand carried to the bank. His daily carry was a Colt, 1903, 32 ACP. Completely random times/routes, using several banks, a powerful Lincoln automobile, sometimes using an employee during shift changes, prevented any problems. He passed in fire in 1953. I have the 1903 but parts are a problem. Now need extractor.
His " rabbit gun" was a Browning Sweet 16. I stiil have/shoot it. Superb piece of machinery.
 
I'm 69 and it is my Dads 1949 Sweet Sixteen and my Grandfathers commercial 1911 45ACP that is nickle plated with stag horn grips. He shot and killed two escaped Ok. prison convicts that held up his drugstore in Monroe,La. in the 1920's with it. He was a great pistol shot as well as a great wing shot. He practiced pistol at least 3 days a week in the warehouse portion of the store. The robbers just picked the wrong store and the wrong person to try to rob.
 
My Dad loves his Ithaca Mag 10. He seems to think it is a do all shotgun. The way he talks up that gun (and lead shot), you would think he could shoot a hole in the moon with it.
 
If I could ask him, he'd probably give the same answer I would...Just can't choose just one. It all depends on what mood I'm in. He'd likely be the same. His (and my) favorite could be any of the following, on any particular day...

Garand, pre-64 94 Winchester, 1892 Winchester rifle, 1892 Winchester SRC, Marlin 39a, M1 Carbine ...(+several more) like I said, it's hard to choose a "favorite".

Wyman
 
My father wasn't a gun nut like me, but I remember him having a snub-nosed S&W when I was little.
 
My father did not own any firearms while I was a kid. But, he grew up in Lithuania and witnessed the crazed Russian retreat in front of the Wehrmacht. The Russians left weapons and ammunition all over, and the locals, kids included, collected them. I assume most of the rifles were Mosin-Nagants.

The Germans didn't really care that some of the natives armed themselves. My grandfather didn't have to give up any of his weapons to the Nazis.
 
all time fav

Dad would probably go with the M1 Garand:cool:

M14 would be second:evil:

M1 Carbine would round out the list, He carried all three,

He used an M1 Carbine in VietNam.:scrutiny: He managed to avoid the little black Mattel product.:D

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As far as my father is concerned, the only two guns that ever needed made were a Win 94 in 30/30 and a S&W mdl 10 in 38 spl. His favorite? I guess that would depend on whether he needed a rifle or a handgun.
 
Belgium Browning Sweet 16 that he enjoyed hunting pheasants with. He taught me to shoot cottontails and squirrels with it.

I inherrited it many years ago and have used it to shoot trap and rabbit, but 16ga started to get hard to find quite a while back.
 
Johnson 1941

My dad turns ninety this month, few days after Xmas.

I always call him on his birthday. Few years back when I called him and we chatted about this and that, the new property down in New Mexico, what a pain it was gonna be moving, and so on. I mentioned that I finally had a hobby that wasn't the same as my job. When he asked, I told him I'd gotten into shooting, and now had an M1 Carbine that was older than I was.

Funny, you grow up with a man, think you have a reasonable handle on him. Dad didn't own guns. Didn't hunt. He didn't object when I get air guns and started shooting. The subject just never really came up.

The moment I mentioned that I had an M1 Carbine, he just lit up. Over 1200 miles away, and I could hear it in his voice. "Oh, I remember those. We qualified with a number of different rifles. But my favorite was the Johnson '41.

I'll be dipped. I had never known. There's a gun shoppe around the corner from where I live. A few days after that conversation, I was in the shop chatting with the guys, and I mentioned his remark. Joe broke a grin. "I've got one of those here."

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So I got to fondle it for a while.

And across the years, 1200 miles was a walk down the block.

I realize now, though, that my own son probably couldn't answer that question. That's something I'm gonna have to remedy.

 
My dad is still around, his favorite rifle is still his Marlin Golden 39A Mountie, his fave pistol a Ruger Mk1 Target model, both in 22LR.

He's killed a lot of varmints and small game with both.
 
In his younger years it was a Winchester Model 12 20 ga.

During the past 20 years, a 6" blue Python.

His 88th birthday is next month.

John
 
I don't think my father has ever fired a gun before. He showed some interest in the Garand the CMP just sent me so I think I could get him out to the range.
 
My father wasn't a gun nut like me, but I remember him having a snub-nosed S&W when I was little.
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Same deal here. Although he has my grandpa's .22 rifle that he has actually kept. We are pretty close and I have no idea why he wouldn't even mention the thing to me when he knows I'm a complete gun nut.

The funny thing is, he has a quite a few guns from one of his friends that is all conspiracy theorist but none of his own other than that .22.
 
My dad's favorite was the Revelation(Mossberg 500) 12 gauge pump shotgun I gave him for father's day 1973. I have it now since my dad passed in 2003.
 
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