John Wayne
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Mosin M-38 stamped 1944.
What's the oldest gun you own ?
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HardShell
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Either a late 1800's Remington .41RF Derringer or an old Winchester 67 single-shot .22 rifle that was custom re-stocked by my great-grandfather (a wood-worker by trade) after being singed by (but rescued from) a fire ages ago.
Both are family guns passed down to me and the .22 was my very first gun. I don't know the exact age of either one.
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Bad pic of the rifle (cropped from a bigger pic of my playroom)...
Not mine but very similar; mine's finish is duller but doesn't have any bare spots like this...
Both are family guns passed down to me and the .22 was my very first gun. I don't know the exact age of either one.
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Bad pic of the rifle (cropped from a bigger pic of my playroom)...
Not mine but very similar; mine's finish is duller but doesn't have any bare spots like this...
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kansas coyote
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1780's fowler musket
chevyforlife21
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i had a tobin double barrel that i sold cuse it had a broken stock otherwise in mint cond. it said 1889 on the barrel. i thought it was from the 70s at the time and i researched tobin went out of buisness long before that so it was a 1889
Erik M
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Mosin 44 is probably the oldest gun I have thats a 'beater' gun.
My oldest hierloom came from my great grand father, it is a S&W model 10, I have no idea when it was made.
There is an Iver Johnson 12ga shotgun that has been willed to me by my grandfaher, its under lock and key with the rest of his guns but im fairly sure that its a pre 1900 firearm.
My oldest hierloom came from my great grand father, it is a S&W model 10, I have no idea when it was made.
There is an Iver Johnson 12ga shotgun that has been willed to me by my grandfaher, its under lock and key with the rest of his guns but im fairly sure that its a pre 1900 firearm.
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Supposedly, I purchased the Springfield 03A3 that won the Wimbledon Cup in 1922. The gentleman that sold it to me claimed to be the grandson of Guy H. Emerson. It was purchased in Aiken S.C. To this day I have never seen another 03A3 operate as well as this one, however I have never fired it.
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redscho
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My oldest:
Winchester Model 06, .22LR pump traded a two cylinder Maytag washing machine engine for it when I was about 14, that would have been in 1944. Best deal I ever got in my life. I suspect it is a bit over 100 years old. Still shoots like a charm.
In the hand gun department it would be a toss up between a civilian model Colt 1911A1 and a S&W Pre-K (I've been told) .22 revolver SN XXX7. I think both of these date back to the early to mid 30's.
Winchester Model 06, .22LR pump traded a two cylinder Maytag washing machine engine for it when I was about 14, that would have been in 1944. Best deal I ever got in my life. I suspect it is a bit over 100 years old. Still shoots like a charm.
In the hand gun department it would be a toss up between a civilian model Colt 1911A1 and a S&W Pre-K (I've been told) .22 revolver SN XXX7. I think both of these date back to the early to mid 30's.
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phillyriverrat57
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oldest gun i own is a 50cal belgum flintlock trade musket that was traded to the indians for gold and silver back in the later part of the 1700's, second oldest gun i own is a 1862 colt pocket navy revolver 36cal., third is a 1873 winchester sporting rifle built in 1881. most of you guys have fairly new stuff by my standards
commygun
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1912 BSA SMLE No. 1 Mk.III. It sits in my gun safe wondering how the hell did I end up here?
WardenWolf
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1941 Series 21 Kokura Arisaka 99 rifle (second series produced by Kokura). Date is a close estimate. I've pretty much narrowed it down to 1941, although 1942 is not an impossibility.
shotgunjoel
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Just bought a National Postal Meter M1 Carbine at the CMP made in the summer of 1944.
Bishop.357
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My oldest gun whould kinda be a toss-up, it is either my grandfather's old doublebarrel coach gun,or do I go with "My" first and therefore oldest gun;which is a S&W M13 .357 magnum that I received on my 14th birthday?
I don't know...You pick.
I don't know...You pick.
xmanpike
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1931 Belgium Browning Auto-5 12 ga. made in the FN factory that was bombed during World War II. One of the first 10,000 shipped to the US.
tomh1426
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1946 Mosin Nagant M44
I used to have an older pump action .22 that my grandfather gave me but someone took it
I used to have an older pump action .22 that my grandfather gave me but someone took it
eight433
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hopkins and allen 32 break top. patented 1898, company went belly up <20 years later so its in that age somewhere.
Next oldest is a 1925 91/30, 1945 m44.
Next oldest is a 1925 91/30, 1945 m44.
Savage Shooter
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A winchester 74 .22 made in 1948 it shoots very well is quite accurate. it was willed to me by my grandpa. I'll post more later I've got to go to work.
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My Garand is a early November, 1943. Still shoots tighter than a frogs bee-hind as well.
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Toss-up between my Nepal-made P-1853 Enfield rifle-musket (bought from IMA a few years ago, in uncleaned condition, and once cleaned up it was still shootable!), and my Smith & Wesson Model 2 Army, which was made in 1864, and bought from a company called "Campsite Artifacts", or something like that. The S&W was refinished at some point in its history, and the cylinder number does not match the frame number, but it is tight, has a good bore, and is mechanically sound.
H&R premier revolver
Manufactured in 1913, near as I can date it. My father in law's personal defense gun in .32 S&W (not long...). He died in the 70s. My mother in law passed it along to me shortly before her death about 8 years ago.
It sat in a storage case unshot until last fall when my wife and I ran two cylinders through it. In my center desk drawer right under this PC as I type.
Manufactured in 1913, near as I can date it. My father in law's personal defense gun in .32 S&W (not long...). He died in the 70s. My mother in law passed it along to me shortly before her death about 8 years ago.
It sat in a storage case unshot until last fall when my wife and I ran two cylinders through it. In my center desk drawer right under this PC as I type.
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