sgms
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My oldest is a longland pattern 1756 Brown Bess Musket used during the French and Indian War.
What is the oldest gun you own?
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Mickey D
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Colt New Service 1917. Date of Manufacture 1919
Cut down to a 2.5" snubby
Cut down to a 2.5" snubby
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safearm
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Colt M1911 manufactured in 1918, armory re-build with M1911A1 slide, nickeled and issued to MPs at Seventh Army HQ, Stuttgart, GE, for post-WWII occupation duties, liberated by MP and returned to the USA.
bmcgilvray
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1894 Krag Jorgensen, a 4-digit first year of production rifle with the 1896 revisions.
Winchester Model 1892 saddle-ring carbine chambered for .32-20, produced in 1896.
Winchester Model 1892 saddle-ring carbine chambered for .32-20, produced in 1896.
tom turner
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My oldest is an old top break .32 by the Forehand Arms Co., sometime in the 1890-1898 time period after Wadsworth retired. Still, it sports F&W grips . . . probably quite original from this maker of lower-cost firearms.
It's even older than the Remington .41 rim fire derringer below it, for the top of the Remington barrel is marked "REMINGTON ARMS - U.M.C. CO. ILION, N.Y.," meaning it was made during the 1910-1935 time period . . . the last barrel marking type that started with the merger of Remington with U.M.C. by their parent company.
Neither specimen is valuable to collectors.
It's even older than the Remington .41 rim fire derringer below it, for the top of the Remington barrel is marked "REMINGTON ARMS - U.M.C. CO. ILION, N.Y.," meaning it was made during the 1910-1935 time period . . . the last barrel marking type that started with the merger of Remington with U.M.C. by their parent company.
Neither specimen is valuable to collectors.
S&W_aussie
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My oldest is an 1851 Deane Adams and Deane cap and ball revolver in 38 bore thats .50 cal. It has an unfluted 5 shot chamber and takes 44 odd grains of black powder in each of them....on top of that it is double action only....you know you are alive when you shoot 5 shots of .50 cal with those sort of charges behind them double action! (Yes she still shoots!)
In the pic she is the middle monster above my 27-2 for comparison and below her sucessor a .442 cal cap and ball Beaumont Adams double (and single) action from 1854. She still shoots too
Mike
In the pic she is the middle monster above my 27-2 for comparison and below her sucessor a .442 cal cap and ball Beaumont Adams double (and single) action from 1854. She still shoots too
Mike
venomballistics
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the oldest in the family ... 12 ga black powder percussion of unknown vintage
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I believe my family's oldest gun is a 1901 M94 Winchester .32 Special. It says. "For smokeless powder only" on the barrel. There are a few notches near the lever part of the stock. I asked my dad what those were and he said, well, those were cut out whenever somebody killed a deer with it. After about 7 or 8 notches they figured maybe they'd best quit, or they'd have a stockless rifle. Until then, a few Minnesota deer met their ends. Shot straight as an arrow, which was good for me, as that was my beginning deer gun for a few years.
Stainz
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I have a few 1895 Nagants - the oldest is from the 1930's.
My oldest S&W is from 1996! I like SS...
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My oldest S&W is from 1996! I like SS...
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Win75
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1918 Swedish Mauser Model 94.
HOUSTON RICK
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A Mosin Nagant 1943.
feralmerril
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This ,59 caliber pin fire from about 1840s? No name, and this remodeled 1858 remington new model army. Then I have a relic s&w american from 1870 or 1871 and a colt saa from 1906.
HGWT
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Leman Lancaster Pa Kentucky long rifle with tiger maple stock approx year late 1830's to early 40's
As a kid I remember my dad shooting it.
As a kid I remember my dad shooting it.
mkk41
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Model 1888 Trapdoor Springfield rifle , with 1892 cartouche date..
BearBio
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Please allow me to indulge. I am not a collector but a "gatherer" (?).
Winchester 1886, 45-70, made 1889.
Winchester 1897, 12 ga, made 1902, marked "Adams Express Co"
Winchester 1895, 30 US, made 1906
Winchester 1894, 32 spl, made 1902
S& W lemon squeezer, 38 S & W, made about 1910
S & W 1917, US marked, made 1918.
S & W Victory 38 S & W, marked "Bavarian Rural Police", made 1942
S & W model 1902, made 1904-5
Colt 1917, US marked, made 1918
Colt Woodsman, made 1925 (about)
Browning A-5 skeet special from the early 1920's
Ithaca Lewis from 1902-1905
a few more from the 30's, 40's, and 50's==all are shooters
Winchester 1886, 45-70, made 1889.
Winchester 1897, 12 ga, made 1902, marked "Adams Express Co"
Winchester 1895, 30 US, made 1906
Winchester 1894, 32 spl, made 1902
S& W lemon squeezer, 38 S & W, made about 1910
S & W 1917, US marked, made 1918.
S & W Victory 38 S & W, marked "Bavarian Rural Police", made 1942
S & W model 1902, made 1904-5
Colt 1917, US marked, made 1918
Colt Woodsman, made 1925 (about)
Browning A-5 skeet special from the early 1920's
Ithaca Lewis from 1902-1905
a few more from the 30's, 40's, and 50's==all are shooters
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