#1902741 - 04/28/10 07:39 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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Pursuit Hunter
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Dang. I got all choked up reading that thread. Amazing what an emotional thing it is to hand down a cherished firearm from generation to generation. Not too many material things in this world could have the same impact (on a hunter anyway). I wonder if my wife feels the same way about using her grandmother's china. I'll have to ask her.
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#1902744 - 04/28/10 07:40 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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My maternal grandmother gave me an LC Smith doble 12 when I was about ten years old. She bought it from some man she went to church with that needed the money.
My paternal grandmother was a real character! She was a large woman who carried huge purses, drank Schlitz beer, and smoked filterless Sir Walter Raleigh cigs. In that large purse she toted two 38's! One was a snub nose revolver and the other was a small over/under derringer. When I was fourteen and over visiting her one day, she decicded we should go get a sack of Krystals. As she was wheeling her 73 Ford LTD down the road with one hand wrapped around a can of Schlitz, one on the wheeel and a Raleigh dangling from her lips with an ash about two inches long that somehow managed to never fall off even as she talked; she told me to get her little gun out of her purse. I took it out and she told me to unload it. She said "Put them two shells in your pocket and you can have that gun!" I was pleased as hell!
I still have it and will not part with it. I always think of Grandma Hazel and her eccentricities fondly whenever I hold that little gun. She truly was unique.
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#1902804 - 04/28/10 08:22 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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I know I have seen that picture before in a book or outdoor mag. of some type, but it wasnt deer and deer hunting, which one? Didn't tell the story
I've writen about that buck in Quality Whitetails as well. He was our first obvious result of adopting QDM harvest standards. We implemented QDM harvest standards on my place in '93 and that buck was killed two years later in '95.
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#1902808 - 04/28/10 08:24 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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When I was fourteen and over visiting her one day, she decicded we should go get a sack of Krystals. As she was wheeling her 73 Ford LTD down the road with one hand wrapped around a can of Schlitz, one on the wheeel and a Raleigh dangling from her lips with an ash about two inches long that somehow managed to never fall off even as she talked; she told me to get her little gun out of her purse. I took it out and she told me to unload it. She said "Put them two shells in your pocket and you can have that gun!"
What a GREAT story!
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#1902820 - 04/28/10 08:36 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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Don't have a "grandfather's gun" story. But, the first rifle my father bought me was a Winchester model 94 30-30. I killed my first deer with it. As a matter of fact, everything I ever shot at with it died. When I got older, I traded it for a 7mm mag. Kicked myself for 23 years for ever trading it. Felt so guilty about trading that model 94, I started collecting them about two years ago. I now own 5 of 'em. Anybody want to sell me another?
We have a model 94 that we might be interested in selling Alan. My Dad bought it new 35 years ago. It just sits in the gun safe and never gets used. I will talk to Dad and see if he wants to sell it. What will you give?? Its basically in mint condition best of my knowledge.
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#1902890 - 04/28/10 09:17 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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mathews338
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Don't have a "grandfather's gun" story. But, the first rifle my father bought me was a Winchester model 94 30-30. I killed my first deer with it. As a matter of fact, everything I ever shot at with it died. When I got older, I traded it for a 7mm mag. Kicked myself for 23 years for ever trading it. Felt so guilty about trading that model 94, I started collecting them about two years ago. I now own 5 of 'em. Anybody want to sell me another?
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#1903689 - 04/28/10 07:55 PM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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RKenney
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My Dad bought me a 1964 Model 70 Winchester .270 in 1966 for my
Christmas present. It's the only rifle that I have used during
deer gun season since then.
By the way, it still looks good and shoots just like it did 44
years ago. Isn't it amazing how a gun will last for many years,
if you take good care of it.
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#1908185 - 05/02/10 09:32 AM
Re: Grandpa's gun
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Bottom Hunter
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Every gun my father ever gave me, he later came back and tried to get back from me.....one was a model 12 winchetser pump....I lied to him and told him that i sold it.....it was a christmas present.....Just like the car that was a birthday present when I turned 16 and the horse when he got a better offer, and the beagles that he sold after I raised them and hunted with them for a few years.....
Sorry for the downer, needed to vent.
My father was a real douche.
BH
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