What's the oldest gun you own ?

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Only a few older than 20 years, a '76 bicentennial Ruger 10/22, my grandfather's Browning Auto-5 12 gauge from the mid 1930's, and a Remington flintlock from roughly the mid-1800's that I need to get restored and dated and collect the history surrounding it. From all accounts a long ago relative worked for Remington, made it himself at the factory and carried it across the country as a pioneer headed for Utah/Idaho.
 
A JM Marlin Ballard #5 Pacific in .45-70, best I can date it is to 1877-78.

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Second oldest is a Colt lettered 1886 SA in .44-40.

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1961 first year production Mossberg 500 left to me by my grandfather, who received it as issued by the Collingsworth County, Texas, Sheriff's Department. I use it as my HD today. I hope my grandson will too someday :)
 
Wow! you guys have like "new" guns compared to my old junkers.

Here is my oldest Norwegian Kassepipe. Barrel made about 1690 with modern (about 1870) upgraded lock and stock.
 

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I don't know. It is either my '34 Tula 91/30, or the Winchester Model 67 my grandfather gave to me.

The 67 was the first gun I ever shot, age 3 at the time. My grandfather won it in a poker game before my mom was born, which would put it pre WW2 since she was born in England and came over on the Queen Mary with my war bride grandmother. Every time I visited them from age 3 on my dad would buy a box of 50 rounds and I'd plink until the box was empty, then get lessons on how to clean it. Eventually my grand dad handed the gun off to me since I had nothing (or anywhere) to shoot at home. When I started college, there was a public range nearby. I went to the range and helped the retired guys pick up before school and drink coffee with them until class time. After class, I went back to the range and shot until it was time to go to work.

My grandfather has a few very old pieces in the closet. A very old S&W .32 Spl that was his mothers, two or three old shotguns that are pre-1900 dated, and a couple of rifles. I don't know all the details. He's in his 90's, and I've been doing my best to tactfully and respectfully let him know I want to keep these things in the family. I think I'm the only younger member of the family who wouldn't take them all to a pawn shop or beat them into submission.
 
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I have a 1925 (Hex) Izhevsk Mosin. It is an ex-Dragoon and was issued to an infantry unit. I would assume it was at one time a war trophy that somehow wound up here in the states.
 
I have a non-functional pin-fire revolver (no trigger, springs broken, etc)--it's in really bad shape. I inherited it from my grandfather, and if he knew the history of it, he never told me. The gun has no markings other than some engraving, so I have no idea who made it, but my guess is that it as made in the 1840s or 1850s.
 
Here is my oldest. Model 1873 Winchester. Shipped from the factory November 7, 1891. Passed down to me from my father. He paid $5 for it. Doesn't sound like a lot, but in 1930 it was nearly a weeks pay for him.

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According to the inflation calculator, that would be $64.66 in 2010 dollars...

I don't know about that. I do know he was making 15 cents per hour working on a road building crew. They had three pay levels. Unskilled made 13 cents, semi skilled made 15 cents, and skilled made 18 cents. He got a job driving a truck which was rated semi skilled.

That was during the depression. You took any kind of job you could get. You think things are bad now?
 
my oldest gun is a 1919 Mauser model 98, bought used from an idiot for $75 about 5 years ago. The bore was trash, the stock was broken, but the reciever and double set trigger were near perfect. So I rebarreled and chambered it for 257Bob, went with a good set of aperture sights, polished to matchless and blued, put it in a pretty black and white laminate stock, and now it's one of my favorites.
 
My oldest is a Pennsylvania rifle in either .32 or .36 cal. It is so old it used to be a flintlock, at least until them new-fangled percussion caps came alone. If I remember correctly, it was built by my Granddad's grandfather (or maybe great-grandfather, the story was always a bit iffy.). I have shot it before and it shot very well with a nice "CRRACKK!" to the well burned charge of real black.
 
My father left me a 1911 he thought was pretty old. In poking around I have discovered it was made in the '20s. Some guy who says he knows these things says it was probably issued to a civilian Federal law enforcement agency, like the Justice Dept. or maybe the Secret Service.
 
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