A “Guns of Our Fathers” thread?

[epj]

Originally posted by feralmerril:
epj: Here is a lighting I had.

I guess that's the same as the Lightning I have. The barrel might be a tad shorter. Like yours, mine lacks the ejector and housing. Mine also has the original hard rubber grips with "rampant Colt" at the top. I'd post a picture, but it pains me somewhat to look at it in its present condition.

 

[Swissman]

Swissdad gave me his Service-Pistol SIG 210 9 mm Luger as a birthday gift a view years ago. I could'nt hold back the tears back then. It was such a bitter-sweet scene. He gave me his gun and I was so proud, but it was also the fact that Swissdad is now old and is in the third part of his lifetime. He's is in good shape, still drives his car safely, makes his sausages, have a beer with friends in a restaurant and got a clear, swiss-stubborn, mind. He's always very interested and excited, when I come home with another competition-medal, that I won with his SIG. But I can see the melancholy, or almost sadness in his eyes, because his bones and eyes doesn't allow some more shooting-days together with Swissson. He avoids to come with me to the range or a competition because it'll hurts him to much that he won't be a competitor.

He learned me to shoot the SIG when i was 8 or 9. I never forget the first shot with this big dark piece of steel and still feel his hands around my hips and see his happy face, when he lift me up, against the shooting-range-roof, after the target cames all the 50 meters back with a nice 9mm hole in the 9 ring, a bit low.

From time to time I took his K31 7.5 mm Schmidt-Rubin with a sport-peep-sight to the range. This rifle shoots still better than I ever will ......................and it kicks like a mule!!! Maybe I should name his rifle "Swissdad"

Swissman

 

[Culina]

My pops is still hanging on to his guns, I guess thats a good thing

 

[wundudnee]

My Dad left me my Grandads 1896 first model .32 S&W hand ejector.

 

[USMCbrat]

Originally posted by wundudnee:
My Dad left me my Grandads 1896 first model .32 S&W hand ejector.

Now there is a piece of history!

 

[S&W Fan]

I've shown this before but this is the no dash 686 my dad bought when they first came out. He had an amazing action job and bead blast done to it. He passed in '92, I added the stags courtesy of Patrick Grashorn. Both my sons learned to shoot handguns on this revolver.

I also have the original box, all papers (even his original receipt), grips, tools.

 

[sw44spl]

hey swissman the K 31 schmidt rubin is a work of art I have one from 1953 with the soldats card under the buttplate.I also had one from 1938 with the soldats card also but i sold it.my 1953 is just a wonderful gun to fire.

 

[Guest]

My Dad had a Winchester pre 64 Model 94 in the Family standard caliber of .30-30. It was that gun that taught me two things. 1. How to shoot a rifle that wasn't really comfortable because it wasn't sized very well for me. 2. That keeping a firearm in a rifle case under the bed wasn't a very good idea because they can get rusty there. When my Uncle passed away I got an old .410 SxS that had belonged to my Grandfather(Dads' Dad) that says "Hercules" on it and since my Grandfather passed away in 1935 this one dates from some time before that. It was the first gun I ever fixed using the training I had gotten in the Army.

When my Moms' Dad passed('65) I was allowed to purchase his pre-64 Winchester that was in .32 Winchester Special, a Winchester 1200 with a 30" Full choke barrel - this had an 18" Riot barrel added and a pistol grip and road in more than one squad car with me and later was a "house gun" - and last was a J.C.Higgins Model 20 in 12ga. that my Granddad had repaired many times. The Model 20 was sold many years ago at a garage sale while I was in Vietnam - I don't miss it a bit.The .32 was remodeled into a practical shooter and just a few Years ago it was passed on to a 2nd Cousin who used it for his first Deer Hunt in MN that year and was successful. He's used it a couple more times and proved that it will do the job of Deer Very well. The 1200 went on the market and did a very nice job of paying for most of a Marlin rifle in .45-70. The only direct 'family' I have left is a member of the Unarmed Services and he won't get any of my guns when the time comes. He's too much like is Mother!!!

 

[m18-1954]

My Dad's still going strong, but I inherited my grandad's guns. Pre-64 winchester in 300 mag, 2 remingtons in 30-06, a 1952 model 94 winchester, a remington 1148 in 28 guage, a browning auto 5 3" mag & best of all, a model 48 6" 4 screw made in 1960. Gramps started me on guns when I was 4 years old, shooting a kodiak semi rifle in 22 mag, shot the model 48 when I was 6. Everytime I get these guns out, so many fond memories of him return. Thanks Grandpa Commodore.

 

[kwbikr]

My father was in the Pacific as a Marine 1942-44...among some others he gave me this one long before he passed...I inherited a pretty .38 M&P 1905 3rd change too but this is my favorite...US&S original finish with the holster he was issued...I have a 6-digit SA Garand and a pretty good IBM M1 carbine, my son and I have taken them all to the range and always catch it from someone about shooting them. It's a real joy to handle, shoot and care for these great arms...

 

[Odinkar]

My dad had a Model 28 that he carried as a sheriff deputy in the mid 70s. It had a 4" barrell and was hard chromed. I carried it for a while in the late 80s when I worked security. Two years ago the gun was damaged in a fire and the people cleaning up either threw it out or just took it. A pistol just like it is at the top of my must buy list.

 

[USMCbrat]

Here is another one....a 19-4 in 98% condition. I think Dad fired it once after he brought it home. He gave me this 1 year before he passed. I need to do a better job with the pix soon.

 

[bronco45]

Love this tribute to our forebears. As an old AF guy really enjoyed the AF photos.

 

[CH47gunner]

My X father-in-law gave this Colt to my youngest son (his first grandson) just before he passed, in 2000, Jeff was 17 at the time.
In 2002, Jeff was killed by a drunk driver. I kept the Colt and will pass it down to my eldest grandson.

Bruce

 

[Vulcan Bob]

My Dad who was a Army Air Corps veteran of WW II only owned two guns that I am aware of. A sporterized 30-40 Krag that He gave me when I was about 16 or so and a Colt Commando he used to keep under a cushion in the liveing room couch. I used to pull it out twice a year and clean it, I dont think he ever fired it. We lost Dad six years ago and I enherited his Colt. Funny, neither of these firearms hold any great value but they are my most treasured items I own.

 

[walnutred]

Dad only had two firearms when I knew him. A Winchester 67 given to him by to my Moms Grandfather and a Winchester 97 that had belonged to his Dad. Ironically he told me once that when he first moved to Ohio he had a bolt action 20 gauge shotgun. This was in the early 50's and pheasant were very common. He had written his Dad that he was having a hard time hitting them with the 20 gauge and his Dad said next time he was in Arkansas he'd swap shotguns.

Right after Desert Storm I was traveling through Arkansas and decided to look up one of my cousins. My cousin mentioned he had an old shotgun I could have. It had belonged to one of our uncles that had died and always puzzled him. My Dads side of the family were fanatic upland bird hunters and he never understood why our uncle had a bolt action 20 gauge in his closet when he died.

The thing looked unfired when he gave it too me. Obviously I cannot prove it was Dads but I suspect it was. So my older brother has the 97 and I have the other two.

 

[Pilgrim]

My 84 yo Dad is a D Day vet who went thru Hell in France, being wounded 4 times before the last one put him out of action and sent him home.

He has never shot a gun since, and says he has no desire to, and I won't try to change his mind.

He has a like new P38 that he 'liberated' in France and keeps it loaded at home, "just in case", but he says he will not shoot anything 'unless I have to'.

Guns are not fun to him.

Some day soon, too soon, I'll own the P38. I"m in no hurry.

 

[ridewv]

It's kinda weird that my father bought this little Colt 25 probably somewhere in the early '70s. To my knowledge it's the only handgun he ever owned.

Just a few years later his father, my grandfather, passed and going through his things we were surprised to find that he had purchased his own Colt 25 in 1921.
So now they are both mine, and someday will both belong to my son.

 

[kwill1911]

Originally posted by USMCbrat:
I'll start....

My user name suggests that my father was a Marine – he was for 8 years and seved in the 1st Marine Div in Korea. But after I was born he moved to the Air Force for the next 20 years. For 16 of those years, he was in the USAF OSI and this was his duty piece:

A Model 36-1 purchased from a dealer outside of Langley Air Force base, Hampton VA, in 1973.

Although my Dad favored a Colt 1911, he wanted something smaller to carry under his suit jacket. I remember firing my first hollow points through this gun when I was18 years old.

Mark,
I'm very interested in knowing more about your Mod 36-1 but I'm confused about whether it was actual USAF OSI issue or not. I know this exact model was used by the OSI for some time.
Thanks,
Kevin Williams

 

[1blindref]

My Dad passed away suddenly two years ago at 63 years old on Thanksgiving. He was the one that got me into shooting right after he and my Mom divorced back in 1981 (my Mom hated guns).
He had some pretty amazing stuff over the years including an original Thompson. He remarried and ended up selling most of his stuff over the years. He would never tell me when he was selling something because he wouldn't feel right taking money from me if I wanted to buy a gun he was selling.

This was my 18th birthday present from my Dad back in 1981 wearing a set Patrick Grashorns.

These were the guns that he left to me when he passed.
66-2

38 Bodyguard

Beretta 8000 Cougar

Beretta 85 Cheetah - his daily carry.

This was my Father-in-laws duty gun when he served as a Philadelphia Police Officer which he gave me for Christmas three years ago.

Colt Official Police made in 1949/1950