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Heirloom guns
« on: May 30, 2015, 02:09:43 AM »
My Belgium A5 in 12 ga owned by my "Bapaw"- (great grandpa) and the Remington model 11 owned by his wife. My "mimo". Story on the A5 is it was a seizure by the sheriff of Tarrant Co TX after being used in a homicide in the early 1900's. My Bapaw's brother was the DA and was able to give him the story after he bought it from the sheriffs auction in the sixties--- at least that's my recollection of the story anyways!
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Re: Heirloom guns
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2015, 10:34:25 AM »
Nice couple of weapons and great history. 

I'll see if I can dig out my first squirrel gun that I got from my PawPaw.  An old mossberg 410 bolt action 3 round mag and external chokes.  Its so old it doesn't have a serial number.  I think my pawpaw bought it at Sears back in the early 1950s
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Re: Heirloom guns
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2015, 05:17:38 PM »
My only heirloom gun is my Grandfather's Remington Model 11 - the gun I used to learn to shoot airborne targets with as a teen.  Used it 5 years ago in South Dakota for an evening hunt to honor his memory.  He used it, most memorably to whack a double on So. Missouri Gobblers, sneaking out of his shop, popped over the hill side and shot the first head that stuck up.....and the one behind it!  Filled his and Grandma's tag less then 100 yrds from the front door!

He stopped using it, when one day, it went full auto on him, dumping 3 rounds and scaring him sufficiently to pick-up an 1100 at the pawn shop!  He had it repaired before handing it down to me!

He's the man I got the hunting bug from, as the stories, though few, were enough to peek my interest- the only hunt he ever took me on was into the woods, past the shop, squirrel hunting, with a sweet Winchester pump .22 rifle that my younger brother ended up with along with all the other arms.  He was the man who had the most profound effect upon whom I am today- rough and well "used", it's one of my favorite weapons.
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2015, 08:34:14 PM »
The little one is my first gun, given to me by dad. It was his and his dad's before him! Single shot Iver-Johnson .410

Second is his Stevens side by side 12 gage. The one in the story, "Patience and a squirrel"
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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2015, 12:54:58 PM »
No current picture as it is at my Dad's place, but this pic is a dead ringer for Grandpa's WWII era Winchester 1891. Didn't carry this one in combat, but acquired it along the way somewhere in the Philippines. Dad still has all the attachments and hardware, although it could use some serious TLC at this point. The slide falls out and the foregrip comes off if racked too aggressively.
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Re: Heirloom guns
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2015, 05:13:41 PM »
Nice guns and memories.

I am looking at the wood behind them all!! Nice stuff.
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Re: Heirloom guns
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2015, 12:24:09 AM »
Nice guns and memories.

I am looking at the wood behind them all!! Nice stuff.
You talking about my shotgun pics?

Yup, nice stuff. That is a 10 place table with walnut and mahogany inlays with a walnut china case behind. The floor is real Kentucky 3/4" tongue and groove walnut. After the Taft theater, a Broadway place in Cincinnati was refinished, I bought the left over walnut and finished the ground floor of our home we were building at the time.
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Re: Heirloom guns
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2015, 08:42:07 AM »
Pretty furniture there Don!
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2015, 09:55:02 AM »
Pretty furniture there Don!
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