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Well my grandfather's rifle was a Winchester Model 1890 in 22 long. He lived in west central Kansas and didn't do any big game hunting, but some rabbits got taken if they showed up in the front of the house. Mostly it was used to dispatch cows and pigs for butchering, and rats and skunks that showed their tails in the daylight. I always talked him into talking it with us when we went fishing for target shooting, and he gave it to me later on in his life.

It was the first rifle I ever shot, and I take it out to the range on his birthday and shoot it in his memory.

JohnDog

Savage fox 12 guage SxS. God knows what he killed with it. I added a fair pile of buckshot whitetails to the talley ... sure miss him.

One used a pre-64 model 94 .30 wcf and the other a model 56 Winchester .22.
2Seventy

Grandpa#1: Octagon barrel '94 Win .32 Special

Grandpa#2: 99 Savage 22HP, later rebored to 250Sav, a 721Rem 300H&H and a 16ga Wingmaster.

Grandpa JimD- M70 .270 Some 60 years later I now use it.

Grandpa JimJ- BAR 30-06, not like the ones sold today. Thank you for your service.

303 brit in canada.he hunted bear,moose and deer every year with it.
pete

Great thread. I didn't get my Grandfather's favorite 300 Savage, but I did end up with his Sako .222 and Rem. 28 gauge. Retiring the Saklo this year.
My Dad's 760 .257 still goes hunting with me occassionally. I have never missed with it!

pepaw

Winchester model 12 12ga.

Winchester P64 30-06
Winchester P64 .270

My maternal Grandfather who started taking me hunting when I was 4 years old hunted with a 1917 enfield the was rebarreled by Johnson Automatics in .270 and that he stocked himself in a Bishop stock. He used a wood burner to burn various brands and initials into the stock as checkering... way cool! It has a homemade fold down peep site he made and a removeable side mount with an ancient Weaver 4x scope. I now own the rifle and used it to harvest 3 whitetails and a feral hog last season. Boy I sure miss him. My cousin got his Fox Sterlingworth 20 ga. side by side and sold it in a garage sale for $200.00. I could kill him!

My paternal grand father had a Vulcan 16 ga. double barrel hammer gun and an Iver Johnson 12 ga. single barrel. I managed to bulge the barrel on the Iver Johnson due to some shody shotshell reloads my old roommate put together. The Vulcan is a safe queen in my safe thank goodness.

Both of my grandfathers passed before I was born. My Dad hunted big game with his 1936 vintage Winchester Model 71 in 348 WCF for over thirty years. At that time he had finally saved enough money to have his 1917 Enfield (Remington) sporterized. He switched to the 30-06 and I got to trade up to the Model 71 from a Winchester 94 I had been hunting with. I was 14 years old when I killed my first big game animal with that rifle (a cow elk). It�s still my favorite 33 years later.

My grandfather used a Savage pump .22 ofr stuff he cought eating his garden, a .577 Snider for big stuff, and a 16 gauge Lafecheaux SXS when hunting birds.
In later years he ad a Savage .410 SXS also.


Cat

My grandfather had 2 rifles. One was a 303 Enfield(old bugger) and a Cooey repeater .22 which my dad now uses also. He would use the .22 for shooting cattle and hogs in the head prior to slaughter and the 303 for shooting swamp donkeys(moose). He occasionally shot a goose or duck with the .22 and many bears also with the 303. He fed his large family with these 2 rifles. Who said guns aren't part of our culture up here in Canada?

Paternal: Browning A5 Light 12 (rebuilt twice for him by Browning - he liked to shoot doves in Arizona) My brother's gun now.

Maternal: prefered .222 and a handlight <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
-dad said he could gut a deer in the pitch dark in about two minutes (never caught <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)

M-1 Garand. I don't think he ever hunted anything but the Japanese during WWII. My bother asked him one time if he ever killed anyone. He replied with a smirk on his face, "Not sure if I killed anyone, but I shot a few right between the eyes!" He told me he lost his brother at Guadalcanal three weeks before he got there. Truely the greatest generation!

Model 99 savage in 300 sav., Winch. 94 in 30-30 and an Ithaca pump 20 guage shotgun. All three reside in the safe and still get time in the woods and at the range every year.

NH Hunter.

My Maternal granfather used Savage 99's in.303 and a .30/40 Krag.
My kids' granspaws used a Winchester 100 in .308, a Remington 700 .22/250, Stevens 325 .30/30, Mosin 91 7.62.

Bob

Neat, I would like to find one.
Bob

Great topic!!

For deer Grandpa used a Rem 141 in 35 Rem. He always stressed that his was a rifle and not a carbine. He also had a Stevens SxS for small game. The 141 is owned by my oldest brother, the Stevens by my other brother. My father used a very early Marlin 336 30-30, later he used a Rem 760 30-06. For small game a Browning/Stevens pump. My fathers guns are in my safe and the most prized guns in my collection.

Neither grandfather hunted or owned guns.
My father, until he was in his fifties, only used a shotgun. He had a model 37 12 gauge Ithica. It was a most unusual gun. It had a 32 inch barrel with a solid raised rib. I am 70 now and have never seen another one like it. The gun is in my brothers hands now.
When he started to deer hunt he first got a 760 Remington pump in .270 Win. Later he replaced this with a Browning BAR in .270. These both went down the road.

I only remember one grandpa hunting and he used a Winchester single shot .22 and a Damascus barreled 12 gauge double. One of his friends died and left him a Winchester '97 which he hardly ever used and I ended up with that one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I think the .22 got stolen from my brother's house and a sticky fingered uncle got the 12. There was also an old Remington .22 pump in the mix that he never used and my ex-wife got that one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif" alt="" />