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Some of my favorite posts are the posts of gun pictures with stories of how the gun was handed down in the family or owned by someone special to the current owner, or a gun repaired or rehabilitated by the owner. Please post a picture of any firearm that you want to show and maybe type (or brag) about for any reason. Thank you, Rick
 
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This is a early 1st or 2nd year S&W .44 American. It is a relic, cut down many years ago. The story I was given it came from I think, around Bozeman Montana. A old barn was being tore down that once was a stagecoach stop and it was hidden in the barn. A old couple from Montana gave it to a friend of mine that I worked with. He went to church with them and they thought he should have it as they knew he liked guns. Well, he liked a old marlin mountie I had better.
This gun should date 1870 or 1871. I like to speculate what history it might have seen.

 
In 2007, I celebrated 20 years of sobriety. To celebrate all of the money that I'd saved on beer, accidents, court costs, and divorce, I went gun shopping. :)

Guns Unlimited in Omaha was the SKB distributor for years. They have an annual sale prior to hunting season and there are tables full of guns laid out and on sale. When I walked through the SKB aisle, this model 885 caught my eye. It was much nicer than comparably priced models. Come to find out, it had been misplaced in their warehouse. It had been put on layaway and forgotten. Turns out, the gun was shipped from SKB in 1994. So the gun had been "lost" for 13 years. I have the box, etc. for it. The SKB representative was at the store that day and I showed it to him. He verified that the gun was unfired.



 
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This Winchester model 95 is in 30 army. (30/40) I believe it came from around Arizona. When I bought it, it didnt have a rear sight. A old friend of mine had a buffington rear sight he put on for me. He didnt have to drill. I have the wood top handguard for it but it wont fit over the sight.
I like to fantasize that it could have been a Texas or Arizona rangers gun as that is what they were issued.

 
A high Standard double nine that is the first gun I owned. It helped create the 22LR shortage we are having now:D. I still own it but don't shoot it much anymore. It has a terrible double action trigger but pretty decent in single action and it quite accurate. I love the swing out cylinder with aluminum frame and it's western styling.
 
Dad bought this octagon barrel Winchester .22 LR model 61 in 1937. He fed the family with it in oregon when they were picking peachs in oregon to survive. I was raised with it and likely it might have been the first gun I shot.
Dad was a natural good instinct shooter with anything he picked up. I have seen him knock a few flying cowbirds out of the air with it. One time dad was entering a local small turkey shoot. I looked around and expressed my concern that the guys he was going to shoot against all had bolts and scopes. Dad said, oh yeah? Well they still have to hold them. Dad stepped up and won the turkey! As dad was 6ft 5"s he put a pad or wood block on all his guns. Thats why the wood piece on the stock.

 
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I have 2 with stories that mean a lot to me.

1. My first shotgun I purchased.

This gun is the one that really got me into firearms. The addiction hasn't stopped since. It went from a regular 870, to a tactical 870, to this. I must have spent so much money messing with this thing but it was all worth it. It is still my first and my favorite.

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2. Ruger 22/45. After shooting her own .22 rifle, my 9 year old daughter decided she wanted to start shooting pistols. This is from this morning. It was only her 2nd time shooting a pistol. She did it standing. One target at 7 yards, and another at 10 yards. Although she had 5 flyers, she did extremely well. Her targets below. I can't tell you how proud I am of my little girl.

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Not the most exciting stories but they are to me.
 
Around 1990/1991 just before I graduated high school my grandfather gave this to me and while I didn't get the significance at the time I cleaned it up as best as I could and wrapped it in a blanket and kept it under my bed always intending to get it fixed up to shoot again.
I later learned that he passed it on to me because I was the first born grandson to carry the family name (other older sons were born to his daughters so different last names) and it was somewhat of a tradition because it was passed on to him as the oldest.
So fast forward 20 + years to last year right after Christmas my son started talking about wanting a bb gun so we assumed other 6 years olds in his class must have gotten one. We told him if he did good in school we would get him one at spring break. I found a Henry AR7 at this little gun store about the same time and made my first purchase (my other rifles where purchased by my father when I was a kid) and so our family now had another outdoor activity.
I asked the little gun store if they could do muzzleloader repairs and they said they don't but have a gunsmith whom they take them to about once a month who flies to California and works on stuff for movies. So I pulled mine out and let my kids see it and told them the history I knew then we dropped it off at the gun shop and picked it up a couple months later.
I then took it to our family reunion in August so everyone could see it and afterward received this picture I had posed for in e-mail from one of the distant family members.

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My Cabelas safari shirt and outdoor pants fit the picture well. The powderhorn he gave me as well and I ordered the brass ends and string from Track of the Wolf and the shooters bag is from RMC Oxyoke.
 
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This late 1830s vintage Hopkins & Allen Dragoon manufactured in Grafton MA along with an old Brown Bess musket that had been in the family forever were left to me by my Great Uncle along with some letters and other documents from the Civil War.

It was the first real gun I ever handled. Uncle let me showed it to me when I was about 8 years old. It felt so huge and it was so cool. The Brown Bess hung over one of his fireplaces and had been handed down to him by his grandfather. He also had a 1861 Springfield that went to one of my other uncles.

My antique dealer Great Uncle might have been a bad influence on me.

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The Brown Bess hangs on my office wall and someday will go to my son or my grandson.

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This is a 50 caliber something pin fire. It probley was made somewhere in the 1830`s or 1840`s. There is no markings on it of manufacturer. I suspect it was made in France or Belgium. It is a double barrel with folding triggers. A old gun collector friend gave it to me 40 + years ago. He speculated the gun was possibly a "boarding pistol" maybe for pirates on the old California coast around the gold rush era when they shanghaied sailors etc. That thought comes from two holes drilled on the side of the gun that looks like it was for a clip to wear on a sash or belt. Anyway sounds as good of a explanation as any other. It certainly has seen history. In the bottom picture it is pictured with the american and a original but refinished 1858 new model remington in .44 caliber. It could have seen civil war service. I dont know. I have shot it and its accurate if you take your time to load it right.





 
My father, collector, competitive shooter, hunter, WWII vet,
started me on my own journey in the world of firearms.
One of the favorites passed to me, Winchester 1894 SRC in 25-35, birth date 1904, 98% factory original. Unrestored.
 

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A friend's dad carried a sporterized Krag deer hunting. I thought that was just about the neatest rifle ever. Looked for 10 years to buy one at my self imposed $150 limit. Then around 1991 I walked into a local show and saw this one on the first table. At that time it had the original wood that was cut down.

"How much?"

"$90."

"I'll give you 80."

"I'll take 85."

"Done."

Two rows over I found a used set of RCBS dies for $10. A few years later I bought a "semi inletted" stock that turned out to need far more fitting than I anticipated. Took a couple years of on and off working but I got it all together.


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I purchased this gun from lgs' trade in stock thinking it was an inexpensive revolver that I could use for indoor target shooting.
It was filthy with old powder residue and lead fouling that was white with age, upon tear down I found this inscription under the added on sight rail with considerable help from members here Ive done some research .
James Mcara was one hell of a guy , almost famous in his own right as a philanthropist after the great war.
As near as I can tell this revolver was a gift from his rifle team that he led to victory at Rockcliffe in Ontario 1913 , he was making plans for 1914 when the great war broke out .
Col. McAra proved his worth after the war when he looked after his men made sure they were working and had assimilated back into society and looked in on the families of his men who had fallen.
He founded veteran hospitals and was active in the royal canadian legion and served two terms as mayor of Regina among other accomplishments
the "Capt." in the inscription is an honorary title he was actually a Col.
he was beloved by the men of his battalion and was known to all as "Captain" because of his being the capt. of the rifle team in a battalion of riflemen.
Oh yeah ,even after more than 100 years this thing still punches clover leaf groups :)
 
A very unremarkable 19-6. This pic was taken after a 3 day 1000+ round phase II portion of our states police firearms instructor school. This portion of the school is actually a test designed to thin out those who do not possess the shooting fundamentals to proceed, kinda stressful but this 19-6 got me through it. It has earned a slot on my never ever sell list.
 
My favorite in the safe, A Swedish CG63. The Swedes took some of their old M94 and M96 Mausers, rebarreled and reworked them into a fantastic target rifle for the Swedish shooting clubs in the 60s and 70s. This one was converted in 1965 by the Carl Gustaf armory using an 1895 Mauser Oberndorf M94 receiver. It has a very low serial number and might well be the oldest receiver used for a conversion. It has also been confirmed by a well known collector in Sweden that Alvar Holmgren, a top shooter and one of the legendary Swedish gunsmiths, did indeed work on this rifle. I know the trigger on it was done by someone that knew what they were doing, it's perfect.

It's kind of accurate too, no glass, diopter rear sight, an aperture front sight and your eyeball.



At 100 yards, the black square measures one inch. Shooting commercial Prvi, 6.5X55 139 grain SP. I figure it will tighten up some when the perfect handload is found.

 
1908 Colt

I got this little gem a few years back. I traded a dirt bike that I had 40 dollars in. It had belonged to a young guy's grand mother in law and she had given it to him before she passed away. He is one of those guys that don't really like guns like that. Hard to use for deer hunting or rabbits. It was manufactured in 1922. It shoots fine but does not like those blazers with the aluminum, or whatever that stuff is, cases. :eek: I sometimes take it with us for snakes when my grand daughter and I go for a walk out here in the boonies.
Peace,
Gordon
 
Ok its not old , and its still making it's history but of all the pistols I've owned or tried this one is my favourite .
I ordered it soon as I heard they were being made ,I added the Ahrends stocks the SDM gold bead and am still undecided about whether to do a trigger job or not, it's pretty darn smooth as it is
I like to shoot 240 grain lswc loaded down to about 900 fps ,very accurate and i can hold a bead during rapid fire.

 
Colt 1929 Police Positive special

Found this in a wall in Grandads closet years ago, It was a rusty crowbar with no front sight I had it re-blued and added a sight also found the Original issue colt grips for it (they were hard to find). I will take this one to the grave with me.


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Why do you have eleven in that one row when there are ten in each of the others? Throws the symmetry off.
 
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