A gun to which you are "sentimentally attached"

I've talked about it here on the forum before. My Pre-64 Winchester Mod. 70 in .270 Win. It belonged to my father then my brother and now me. It kept us fed, as every single member of the immediate family has taken deer with it. It has scratches and dings in the stock, and bluing loss as you'd expect of a field rifle with that many seasons under it's belt.
There is not enough paper in the world to print enough money to buy it.
 

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I’ve always said my Gen 3 Glock 19 is the last gun I’d ever sell. I’ve had it for a long time and know exactly where the POA vs. POI stand. The sum of its parts don’t nearly add up to what the package has delivered for me.

A couple honorable mentions would be the 10/22 my dad bought me for my 16th birthday, the Model 94 .30-30 which was the first gun I bought myself at a Big 5, and a Model 38 snub I inherited from my grandfather on my mom’s side.

After 25 years of building up what I have it’s kinda funny to think that the last things I’d get rid of are the ones that most people wouldn’t bat an eye over.
 
My pre model 30 I frame that my grand dad owned. The rings were his too.

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My oldest and by far least valuable firearm that I own. The old Iver Johnson .22 revolver my Dad taught me to shoot pistols with when I was 7. That would have been in 1981.

He bought it for my Mom when they just got married and taught her to shoot with it. They were married less than 7 years before I was born, so that would date it in the late 60’s. He gave it to me when I was 16. I’ve owned it every since.

I couldn’t tell you how many thousands of rounds have been through this old gun. But it still works and shoots as it should. Not quite as accurate as it once was though.
 

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Two that evoke good memories: my father's Springfield 94 .22 bolt action rifle. He traded 2 weeks driving tractor for it, used, during WWII. It was his only gun until I was around 10 and I learned to shoot with it. The rear sight elevator had been replaced with a kitchen match long before I first saw it, but it shot and shoots true.

My engagement present was a 2" Colt Lawman MK III. My intended wanted me to have a reliable backup and off duty gun. It served in both capacities throughout my career and as my primary as a detective. Came home at the end of each shift. Still have the gun and the girl.
 

Of all the guns I ever fired this is the one that I was the most sentimentaly attached to.

A-23. An M110A2 SP Howitzer. The first gun I was ever assigned to. Battery A 3bn 35th FA Peden Barracks Germany.

That's me on the Right shooting it

If they didn't turn the tube into a bunker buster for Desert Storm. It's sitting in a motor pool in Morocco somewhere.
 
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I have a special feeling for almost all of my firearms, but for some more than others. For many (most?), it is the actual utility of the firearm. However, the question says "sentimentally attached." Three stand out.

My H&R USRA Model, AKA Model 195, was given to me by a friend when he and his wife were about to move to a state less gun-friendly than MA. Most of his guns, AFAIK, went to his several sons. However, he allowed me to choose one of his Model 195 pistols. I chose the one which he had previously shown me, a 10"-barrel adjustable-sight-radius pistol with Roper grips.

The second pistol which has some sentimental attachment is a Detective Special with bobbed hammer which I purchased from a policeman who was trying to trade it in on a lighter backup gun. The LGS owner had just finished explaining to him why a bobbed-hammer gun wasn't worth much as a trade-in. I, however, liked bobbed-hammer guns, and had plenty of light .38 Spl snubbies. I asked the fellow how much he wanted for it, he said $90, and I tried the gun, with Mershon or Pachmayr grip adapter, in my hand. It felt a lot more comfortable than the Airweights I had been playing with. The LGS owner handled the transfer.

When I got the gun home, I removed the sideplate to clean the gun. I made a tool to disassemble the cylinder from the ejector rod, and did so. It seemed like wasted effort. I have never seen such a clean gun, before or since. It was like a gunsmith father had prepared that gun for his son to carry. Oops - actually it WAS a gun prepared for the son to carry. The policeman had told me that his father did some personal gunsmithing work, including bobbing the hammer on that gun. I reckon the son ended up with a slightly lighter backup gun, but not a cleaner one.

The third sentimentally significant gun was my 3" double-Magnaported PC 629, now with Fishpaw grips, which I purchased at a time when extra money was short, but I had just been blessed with an opportunity to pick up a few hundred extra dollars.

Those are my sentimentally special guns.
 
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I have several firearms that have some sentimental value. My grandfather's S&W .32 Safety Hammerless; a Remington 870 Wingmaster my father gave me for my 13th birthday; a Browning BL22 that was the first gun I bought with yard mowing money when I was a youngster. I have several others that are special because they were gifted to me by special people including a Ithaca 1911A1 given to me by a Korean War veteran, and a USGI M1 carbine given to me by a family friend.

But the one that holds the most sentimental value as I near the end of my law enforcement career is the Gen 3 Glock 23 that I have carried daily since 1999. The department had transitioned to the Glock 22 but I preferred the 23 and bought my own. I have fired this gun many thousands of rounds in the past 25 years and know it like the back of my hand. It has never let me down, not once. It has been carried a lot and well used but not abused. I have been offered department issue guns numerous times but I always decline and continue to carry my Glock 23.

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Bunch of them, but the foremost would probably be:





It's a Colt New Service with D.W. King work including those "speed holes" as part of a worked over action, a ramped red square post rear sight, with a "Super Police" rear sight.

The engraving is helpfully explained by a letter to (and response from) Mr. Askins way back when:





If any of you are familiar with a gunshop in Bothell Washington called DJ's then you are undoubtedly familiar with the wonderful man who is no longer with us; Bruce Jordan. He was instrumental in teaching me about guns and most importantly what quality in firearms means. I could never really reach the rarified air of what he loved collecting (just couldn't afford it), but the quality I learned led me to the intersection of affordability and extreme quality: The Smith & Wesson.

Of course this tutelage also led me to discover what fine work D.W. King was doing to guns, and of course I became a King and finely modified revolver fanatic.

This particular gun was one that Bruce knew about for years and eventually convinced the owner to part with it so that it could come to my hands.

I miss Bruce a lot. This would be the last gun I would ever part with.

And man, would it be painful parting with the 11 guns that are behind this one for favorites, with some kind of sentimental attachment to them all basically at this point;



Not *quite* your favorite



What is your Favorite Gun?

That list of top 10 is kind of wrong at this point. Two guns have entered my collection which belong in here, but I am not sure how to wedge them in. I think maybe I will need to make a top 15?
 

Of all the guns I ever fired this is the one that I was the most sentimentaly attached to.

A-23. An M110A2 SP Howitzer. The first gun I was ever assigned to. Battery A 3bn 35th FA Peden Barracks Germany.

That's me on the Right shooting it

If they didn't turn the tube into a bunker buster for Desert Storm. It's sitting in a motor pool in Morocco somewhere.




YOU WIN !!!!
 
I have several firearms that have some sentimental value. My grandfather's S&W .32 Safety Hammerless; a Remington 870 Wingmaster my father gave me for my 13th birthday; a Browning BL22 that was the first gun I bought with yard mowing money when I was a youngster. I have several others that are special because they were gifted to me by special people including a Ithaca 1911A1 given to me by a Korean War veteran, and a USGI M1 carbine given to me by a family friend.

But the one that holds the most sentimental value as I near the end of my law enforcement career is the Gen 3 Glock 23 that I have carried daily since 1999. The department had transitioned to the Glock 22 but I preferred the 23 and bought my own. I have fired this gun many thousands of rounds in the past 25 years and know it like the back of my hand. It has never let me down, not once. It has been carried a lot and well used but not abused. I have been offered department issue guns numerous times but I always decline and continue to carry my Glock 23.

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A Glock is a Glock is a ....... BUT.......when a specific Glock is YOUR long term, dependable, totally familiar, trustworthy, daily companion, I absolutely get the sentimentality :) FYI ... I have three 23s "on duty" - nightstand, office, and glove compartment.
 
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Bunch of them, but the foremost would probably be:





It's a Colt New Service with D.W. King work including those "speed holes" as part of a worked over action, a ramped red square post rear sight, with a "Super Police" rear sight.

The engraving is helpfully explained by a letter to (and response from) Mr. Askins way back when:





If any of you are familiar with a gunshop in Bothell Washington called DJ's then you are undoubtedly familiar with the wonderful man who is no longer with us; Bruce Jordan. He was instrumental in teaching me about guns and most importantly what quality in firearms means. I could never really reach the rarified air of what he loved collecting (just couldn't afford it), but the quality I learned led me to the intersection of affordability and extreme quality: The Smith & Wesson.

Of course this tutelage also led me to discover what fine work D.W. King was doing to guns, and of course I became a King and finely modified revolver fanatic.

This particular gun was one that Bruce knew about for years and eventually convinced the owner to part with it so that it could come to my hands.

I miss Bruce a lot. This would be the last gun I would ever part with.

And man, would it be painful parting with the 11 guns that are behind this one for favorites, with some kind of sentimental attachment to them all basically at this point;



Not *quite* your favorite



What is your Favorite Gun?

That list of top 10 is kind of wrong at this point. Two guns have entered my collection which belong in here, but I am not sure how to wedge them in. I think maybe I will need to make a top 15?

I miss DJ's it was a genuine gun shop.

I think you should share the story of that 1911 as well as that "incredibly expensive" RM in the next pic.:D

My guns? Dad's 6 1/2" Heavy Duty, as well as his WSP Commemorative and his 1936 Model 94. Also my uncles 1946 1911 he carried in Korea.
 
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Of all the guns I ever fired this is the one that I was the most sentimentaly attached to.

A-23. An M110A2 SP Howitzer. The first gun I was ever assigned to. Battery A 3bn 35th FA Peden Barracks Germany.

That's me on the Right shooting it

If they didn't turn the tube into a bunker buster for Desert Storm. It's sitting in a motor pool in Morocco somewhere.

LOL,
I kinda' think this thread is more oriented towards guns we currently OWN that have some kind of sentimental value.
Is that one currently in your possession?
If not, while it may be "interesting", it seems kinda' out-of-place in this context.
Or did I miss the point?
 
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