ACP230
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My Granddad had two guns. One was a single-barrel 12 gauge, an ACME.
My great uncle got that gun after my granddad died. He gave it to me when I started hunting deer at age 14. I used it for deer and grouse hunting for a few years then just hung onto it. I missed a lot of grouse with it, and killed one squirrel. Never saw any deer when I was carrying it. One pack of Winchester rifled slugs lasted me years!
I gave the old gun to my oldest son. We named him after my grandpa, so I thought he should have the shotgun. He left it here, but I don't shoot it any more. It's beat up and loose but does still work.
The other gun was a Spanish copy of a Smith & Wesson hand ejector. It was a .38, but I'm not sure if it was a .38 S&W or a .38 Special. When granddad died I was living in the South Pacific and was 11 years old. I may not even have found out about the gun till I was older.
Grandma mailed the S&W copy to her son in California. (I don't know if that was legal then (1960) or not. She got away with it anyway.) My uncle had it till his death about 20 years later. His wife, who was a difficult woman, had gotten crosswise with my mother by then. I tried to get grandpa's gun, but my aunt gave it to some shirtail cousins in California.
I am a real Smith & Wesson fan but that copy is one gun that I really would like to have in my collection.
My great uncle got that gun after my granddad died. He gave it to me when I started hunting deer at age 14. I used it for deer and grouse hunting for a few years then just hung onto it. I missed a lot of grouse with it, and killed one squirrel. Never saw any deer when I was carrying it. One pack of Winchester rifled slugs lasted me years!
I gave the old gun to my oldest son. We named him after my grandpa, so I thought he should have the shotgun. He left it here, but I don't shoot it any more. It's beat up and loose but does still work.
The other gun was a Spanish copy of a Smith & Wesson hand ejector. It was a .38, but I'm not sure if it was a .38 S&W or a .38 Special. When granddad died I was living in the South Pacific and was 11 years old. I may not even have found out about the gun till I was older.
Grandma mailed the S&W copy to her son in California. (I don't know if that was legal then (1960) or not. She got away with it anyway.) My uncle had it till his death about 20 years later. His wife, who was a difficult woman, had gotten crosswise with my mother by then. I tried to get grandpa's gun, but my aunt gave it to some shirtail cousins in California.
I am a real Smith & Wesson fan but that copy is one gun that I really would like to have in my collection.
