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Passed Guns and Their Stories
Flyin6:
Guns are nearly eternal with respect to how we pass them down and associate fond memories with them.
I give my boys a gun every Christmas. Kat doesn't mind, but the girls are concerned now that the boys closets are looking like Arms rooms. If you go to my wife's face book page you can see me teaching the middle pre-ranger how to shoot his new Canik 9mm pistol he got for Christmas, and the little pre-ranger with his Ruger Charger .22
When the boys get around the safe or gun cabinet, they are always talking about who gets what when dad kicks the bucket. Prevents me from selling them too.
Nice story Kyle, great Grand dad!
cruizng:
Kyle, Great story. Like Don said with many of our guns it is the memories they link to while using them. I still have the Rem 700 30.06 that my Grandfather gave me many many years ago. I still remember sighting it in and the hunts we went on together.
My grandfather made a couple of hand made (out of heavy plywood mind you) gun cabinets that he kept his guns and supplies in. We were always amazed as young kids when he would open them up and show us what he had locked up. I can still remember the smell of Hoppes. When we grand kids got old enough he made a gun cabinet for us. I still have mine and still have the original key to it. It doesn't have any guns in it but still cool to have.
When my Dad passed away many years ago I had the unenviable task of separating his guns and shipping them to us kids and step kids. He only had one thing in his will and that was an old shotgun that his dad had given him that he wanted to go to me. The rest he wanted doled out equally. I tried to separate them equally by value but there were several that my Grandfather wanted to go to specific Grandkids because he had given them to my Dad. So a Remy .243 went to my brother and a sporterized Springfield 30.06 went to my sister etc.. So yeah... guns a SPECIAL.. :D
cudakidd53:
Please post a picture(s) of the firearm along with the story of its lineage here. If possible, a picture of its previous owner/with or without said heirloom would be a great touch as well!
cudakidd53:
Remington Model 11 - Passed to me by my Grandfather who taught me to shoot and is responsible for my interest in all things outdoors. I learned to wing shoot with this gun and it made such an impression that the first quality shotgun I bought was a Browning Auto-5. He had it repaired just prior to giving it to me as it developed a tendency to do full auto mag dumps, hard to control when you aren't expecting it!
The photo below is one I took the first fall that I had possession of it - limit of pheasants that I'd shot on the farm I lived on at the time. Was able to drive home fast from work (Hour drive) fly in the driveway, change and grab the gun and turn the dog loose and usually "see" a limit of birds before dark on a 600 acre place with a railroad track running through it. Needless to say, the birds had some pressure from other than me, but being able to start in the middle of the tracks and head either direction, I had the ability to "break the pattern" the birds were used to, and where I could start, was in the middle of the best cover and where they were feeding and work them to where the cover crapped out. I printed that photo as part of a Masters class in photography and gave it to my Grandpa Ken, who proudly hung it in his Ozark home until his death 10 years ago. It now hangs above my desk at the house - wife doesn't like it so much, thinks it's morbid.......I tolerate it as our living room has another pair of birds that I mounted taken with it and a deer head, so I guess I'm wise enough to pick my battles! :facepalm:
Bear9350:
Was going to post on the wdydt thread but then remembered this one.
The Wisconsin 9 day gun hunts starts next Saturday. It always runs the week of Thanksgiving. Starts the Saturday before and runs until the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I noticed the local sporting good store had some ammo on sale. I could get 5 boxes of 30-30 for about $8 a box after rebate. I've been thinking for a couple years that I should get my uncle's old 30-30 out one of these years and decided this was the year.
My uncle was also my god-father. He passed away right before my 12th birthday. I was at an age at that time that I was able to help him do a lot of simple tasks around the house for a while as he became weaker from the cancer. After he passed, his daughters who were significantly older then me wanted me to have one of his guns. I got his Winchester model 94, 30-30. Every one of my uncle's got one from my grandpa when they were old enough to hunt.
12 year old me shot it a couple times before deer season but I have never hunted with it. That was the last time that gun was shot until today.
My dad's side of the family all hunt together. Every year we make a drive "out east". It's some family land that butts up to some public land. It's where my grandpa hunted, and where my dad and uncles starting hunting. We don't hunt there much anymore because the deer have moved from the big woods to the more fielded areas. Every Wednesday afternoon we go head out there and make a drive. Rarely do we chase any deer out and we get one even less. After the drive we gather on the "ridge", open up a bottle of black berry Brandy (because that is what they use to carry in their flasks), toss the cap to the bottle over your shoulder and pass the bottle around until it is gone.
Us younger guys listen to the older guys tell stories about the guys who are no longer with us. At some point somebody will fire a shot off for each one of those members of the hunting crew who are gone.
I'm not sure how much I plan to hunt with my uncle's 30-30 next week. It's really not at home on the open farm fields we hunt on now. But I know I will be carrying it when we head "out east" Wednesday afternoon.
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