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Firefighter's post about our favorite rifles made me think of this. What guns have been passed down to you from family members? Are there any stories behind them?
I have four guns that I have inherited.
1. An unidentified .32 revolver that was my great, great grandpa's. He kept it behind the counter when he owned a store in Seattle.
2. My great grandpa's Winchester 30-30. He bought it to go elk hunting, killed one elk with it, then decided he didn't like hunting so he just kept it in his closet.
3. My grandpa's bolt action Winchester .22lr. No story with it. Everyone has to have a .22.
4. My grandpa's Savage .22/20 over under. When my grandparents lived in Newhalem he used it to hunt grouse on the service roads. Of the guns that have been passed down to me, this is the only one I shoot.
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Ifish4u
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I got a 30/06 from my dad before he passed away.
Then my mom and sister had a garage sale and never told me about it and sold his 30/30 level action Winchester, pre 64 for 35 bucks. That was the gun I used when we went Deer Hunting. Dag-gone, I wanted that gun. Somebody got a good buy!!
I don't hunt but it sure would have been nice to have that gun in the closet.
Ifish4u
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When my grandfather's eyes went bad, he bought an SKB/Ithica 20 # sid-by-side on the theory that he would be able to aim better. He left it to me when he died. I love that gun as it has taken everything from geese to chuckar.
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I have a few hand me downs from all parts of my family because I am the only one with a safe, and am the only shooting enthusiast.
1. A cool little Remington Elliot, 5 barrelled .22 with a rotating firing pin, patents dated from 1860-1861.
2. A Savage model 1905, semi-auto, in .380.
3. A High Standard 9 shot .22 revolver, unknown dates, but probably from 1950's.
4. A Steven's Junior falling block .22.
5. A Mossberg 42M .22, bolt action.
6. A Remington 740 in .30-06.
7. A Winchester Coohey 20 ga single shot shotgun.
8. A Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Sp.
I have not shot the Elliot or the Stevens, but everything else has been. I've taken deer and coyotes with the 740, grouse with the 20 ga, .22 High Standard and .22 Mossberg, and I carried the .380 as a back-up for a year until I inherited a more suitable Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Sp.
The one gun I did not get was "lost" when my grandma was cleaning out her second husbands stuff after he died. It was a .32 caliber (rimmed) pen gun that looked like the one pictured here http://www.adrax.com/watsons/pengun.htm .
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My first gun at age 8 was givin to me by my uncle...It was a Parker Hale 300 win mag that looks a lot like this one 
Then not to long after that I was givin a Remington 660 243win that I later put a weaver steel tubed T cross hair scope on there  Sweet little gun!
I also was givin the ol Savage Steven's Model 15 single shot 22lr! and one of the first Ruger 10/22s
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chinook
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my dad left me his jc. higgins 12 gauge ,i used to do alot of squirrel with this shotgun
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Last year I was left and ooold Win. model 94 in a 30 wcf,I beleive it was the first cartrige ever chamberd in this model
too many others to list.......Os
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I have a weatherby 300 mag that was my grandfathers........custom stock done in greened walnut..1940's model..........It is primarily used as my elk rifle now......Boy it packs a punch
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after 10 years of putting in for a doe tag and not getting one my grand father passed away and left me a 270 win. and I got my doe tag the next week. 1st day I hunted I stepped out of the truck walked 100 feet and there stood a huge doe
just looking at me so I crossed her eyes. End of story.
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My dad's pre-64 Model 94 30-30
My dad's model 99 Savage .308 with internal rotary mag.
Grandfather's WWII era Stevens single 12 with plastic stock and forgrip
My great-grandfather's .32 Bullpup revolver
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Chalk one up for ole Dad, good job plugs...........gotta love irony!
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I inherited a .22, which seems to be the most common. But I did receive a little golden nugget. A Winchester .225. It's a sweet gun, although it's harder than hell to find ammo for it. They aren't in production anymore I don't think.
When I was playing ball and going to school at Big Bend in Moses Lk, I ran across a guy who worked at Tri State. He said his son, or someone, had previously owned a .225, but no longer, and he had 5 boxes of shells in .225, but no gun. Sold them to me for 5 bucks a piece. Helluva bargain last box cost me 28. Much thanks to that guy!
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I've got a few cool ones passed down to me:
Great gramps's model 70 300H&H, model 70 fwt 308, 94 30-30 (and great granny 4 point on the wall that she shot with it)
Great uncles model 70 300 H&H (killed a bunch of bulls in the Blues,fully engraved by the engraver that the emperor of Japan during WWII used), a 1886 45-70, Winchester model 60 (I think,hammerless) pump 22 like a model 12, and a few others.
Can't wait to have my little boy play in my "toy boy" in a couple of years.
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