Every Gun Handed Down To me Is Junk!

[robvious]

all firearms that I inherited are priceless... even if not valued by any others... I was given my maternal grandfather's only one.. purchased at the sale barn when someone came up 5 bucks short.. grandma was quite upset with his purchase.. lol... an old Stevens O/U 410.. was kept on top of the cabinets next to the sink in the mud room on the farm.. I was always fascinated by it and was given it when my aunt moved off the farm and into town... not for sale...

 

[JohnRippert]

I ended up with my maternal grandfather's Remington RAS(Remington Autoloading Shotgun) 12 gauge, which is what the Model 11 was called before 1911. Mom's sister-in-law gave me a Stevens 311 16 gauge several years back. It had been leaning up against the wall in a garage that flooded about 6 inches deep decades before. I took it apart and got it cleaned up.

 

[JimFr]

I've got my Dad's old bring back Dou 44 large ring K98 German Mauser. I've cared for it since I was in grade school and wiped it down with Baby Oil. It's in excellent shape and he took it out of a German Warehouse brand new from the crate. He did the duffle cut so I restored it with another stock.

 

[JimFr]

I sure hope you saved the original stock and the cutoff piece of the forend!
That ORIGINAL stock had a MATCHING serial number to the rest of the Mauser!
I’ve reattached these cutoffs very successfully on many occasions!

 

[raljr1]

Dad left my brother and I a few guns, most of them not worth a whole lot. I got an Enfield revolver, an Ithaca Featherlight 16 ga, a Ranger 22, an unfinished sporterized 1903, and a Remington 721. Brother got a 20 gauge Remington Model 17, a Savage 99, an old bolt action shotgun, a Savage 32 pistol, and a no name 22.

 

[duke2002]

I still have some family guns. Same story they got used to put meat on the table. Most are not safe to shoot but i wont get rid of them. Guns my grandpa had. Cheap guns my dad had growing up cause thats what they could afford.

 

[mauser9]

Some fantastic heirlooms from the past mentioned here indeed. Many quality made guns from the past.

 

[Stickgunner]

I'm kidding. My grand parents, and parents blah blah blah. Am I the only one?

The only one who creates bait and click threads?

 

[SLT223]

My parents never had firearms. My kids are going have it made. Lucky ducks….

 

[Enzo Rules]

My dad was not into guns so I did not inherit any. That’s not going to be the case for my boys.

 

[Terry G]

My Parents home was a gun free zone. I was allowed to buy a Daisy BB gun when I was 12. When I was 16 I ordered a Italian 6.5 MM Carbine and 200 rounds of Military Surplus Ammunition for under $25.00. What my Parents didn't know couldn't hurt me. About 20% of the ammunition were duds with some interesting hang fires also. I did get some modern Hunting ammunition and the little Carbine was accurate with good ammunition. I still have it. The only gun I got from an inheritance was a S&W Model 10 that my Uncle left me. He was a high ranking Fire Marshall for the Chicago Fire department and the gun was given to him during the 1968 Riots. A little know secret was Mayor Daley issues a shotgun and Model 10 to each Fire crew after a Fire Truck was damage from a Molotov Cocktail. It was this Daley that gave his Police Officers an order "to shoot to kill or maim looters and arsonist's". It wouldn't fly today but the day after the order was given the riots stopped. When I got back from Viet Nam the pistol was gone as were a lot of my possessions. My Parent's had allowed a Cousin to stay with them after his Parents kicked him out. I never saw the Cousin again.

 

[venomballistics]

Dear old Dad left me a Western Auto Revelation R100b. Single shot bolt action .22lr. Apparently made by Mossberg. I love that little rifle.

had one, it didnt survive my young and dumb years unfortunately.
It was a real sleeper. Until very recently, I never had a 22 that would touch that things accuracy.

 

[BillyKframe]

My Maternal Grandfather was the only ancestor with any really nice guns and he left them all to my first cousin.

 

[cowboy94916]

I have been fortunate I inherited the m71 348 WINCHESTER. My dad ordered from Griffen and Howe the year i was born. After many years of use he stripped the stock and put a hand rubbed oil finish on it. It will go to my son and grandson all of us who bear his first name.
My neihbors widow gave me his M-15 Smith he had been an officer in the Air Force and knew I loved Smith's.
My two best friends passed in the last 3 yrs.,One left me a 625 3" the other an STI edge 40.
I would rather have them here to continue our range sessions, Sadly life goes on and at least this way I get to take them to the range with me or hunting trips. Gives me warm feelings to have them with me.

 

[Muley Gil]

I inherited my granddaddy's Stevens .22/.410 over/under when I was 15. My (step)dad bought a S&W .38 M&P a few years later. That and a reproduction .58 Zouave muzzleloader were his only guns until a close friend of his died and left him his guns. Dad sold a few over the years, but kept most of them.

When Dad died, I received what he owned, including the M&P. That one is my wife's bedside gun.

 

[raylesworth]

Ok, I am a sucker for this sentimental thread. Mine was a Winchester model 37, 410ga., given to me by my grandfather when I was about 10. A few years later I realized that it was my great grandpa's gun, with which I sat with when he had the 410 on his lap ready to dispatch any robin that dare invade his prized strawberry patch. He died when I was 8, and I was next in line. I had the great pleasure of passing it on to my grandson on his 12th birthday, along with a note about the family provenance. Not a big money gun, but .... yep, priceless!

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

The joke might be lost on me but that seems very ungrateful.

 

[mckenney99]

I forgot that I also inherited my maternal Grandmother's old S&W revolver. I believe it is a .32 Double Action 4th Model S/N: 44427. This old revolver was found under her mattress when we cleared out her house. The gun was loaded with 5 different badly corroded rounds.
The story is that Grandma was given the revolver as a young girl (she was born in 1903) and she carried it until she & Grandpa married. I was told that Grandma was known to occasionally shoot moles in her yard with the revolver in her later years until it just wouldn't function reliably any more. (I'm sure the neighbors were relieved that Grandma wasn't going to be "busting any more caps" in the neighborhood.) I know that my dad took it to someone to see if it could be fixed but the best they could do was get it to fire every now & then.
After cleaning the gun up, the bore and cylinder chambers are heavily corroded. The cylinder does not lock up at all, but it does carry up when the hammer is cocked but its iffy whether the chamber will be lined up with the barrel. The gun retains very little of it's original nickle finish.
I did not offer this gun to my niece because I believe it is in an unsafe condition. I have tagged the gun as such and it is stored in the back of one of my safes.