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Carried my father's Remington Model 11 20 gauge a good bit this past Fall during bird season. Also my grandfather's 1899 in 303 Savage while deer huinting.

Over the years I've bought sold and traded a lot of guns, but Dad's stuff never leaves. I've got several deer rifles to choose from,but I always come back to Dad's beat up old Mauser. He bought this gun to hunt moose with in Canada. A military action, that some company had bought a bunch of and sporterized. The cheap hardwood stock looks like a piece of driftwood, it's so beat up from years of hard use. Dad always looked at a well worn gun and said "son-every one of those scratches was EARNED." That gun has accounted for three "firsts". Dad's first (and only moose-a nice bull he shot in 1969, my first deer-a spike buck that wandered in front of me late in the Pa. deer season, and also my BIL's first deer, a yearling that ran past him in northern Minnesota. As a sidenote, I shot that buck on what turned out to be Dad's last hunt. He died the following spring. Hunting's always been a tribute to him and his memory ever since. We'll hunt again some day, Dad. Have the coffee on and a skillet full of deer liver ready to go. I"m coming soon.

I have a winchester 69a and and old stevens 12 gauge single that my dad used and an 870 12 gauge I got for christmas when I was 13 or 14. The 69a and the 870 get used on grouse, most years!

My Dad's Winchester 1911 SL




My Grandad's Winchester 24 16ga

My guns that are used regularly are as follows. Marlin 25 .22lr, santa gave me when I was 10, The fore mentioned 7x57 ( dad's) , a 3 digit ruger bearcat .22( dad's) , a Ruger vaquero .45lc (also dad's) ,a 700 in .243, restocked and rebarrelled ( was a favorite uncle's) and a browning citori 12ga. field gun I got in a trade from an old hunting partner that passed away a few years ago. These are all memory makers each and every time and none I paid much for. I have bought and sold a lot of other guns but these will be in my bunker til the end...........

Yes, as a matter of fact. I carry my deceased father's in law Ithica SKB 20 gs O/U bird hunting. Mt wife carried my deceased father's Rem 740 in 30-06 back in 1992 and killed her bull moose with it. I wanted to give it to my son, but he wouldn't take it until I killed a nice buck with it and I did that last November on Anticosti. It is now his to carry and kill something with. BTW, I never saw my Dad kill ANYTHING legal.

Never met my F-I-L. He died when my wife was a teen. For more than forty years, she has carried his guns(shotguns) around where ever she's lived, dust them off every year or so, maybe oil them once in while.

I took them out of the closet and decided to hunt them this year. First is a Winchester Mdl 50, semiauto, 28" mod. choke.This the exact gun I learned to shoot and hunt with back in the '50s. Still carries easy in the crook of my left arm. With today's plastic sleeve shot shells, it shoots a tight full choke. You need to let the squirrels get out a little ways if you want any thing left to eat.

The other is an Eastern Arms Co, single shot. Marked prooftested 12 Ga and select forged steel. No choke is noted. A dime won't quite enter the barrel so I'm calling it a full choke,32 inch barrel. A thick recoil pad has been added to it for good reason. Even mid velocity loads will surely get your attention.

Enjoyed carrying them both and drew a little blood with each. I think that Mdl 50 is gonna replace my 1187 as my field gun.

Maybe carrying the guns of this long gone WWII vet gave me some measure of the man he was.

I try to take out folks guns that have passed on every year to take hunting and even harvest with.

Dads shotguns. Great friends deer rifles. Etc... brings joy to me to see them get back out in the field.

I have a Ruger 77 in .308 that was passed to me by the Father of a very good friend of mine after the my friend passed away. It took me a while to get the rifle "right" as it was a workin progress when I got it. However, it's now "right" and I purposely carry it each season and take at least one deer with it.

Nothing gets much better than hunting with a family heirloom...

My grandfather purchased this gun in 1962, the year I was born, and hunted with it a few years and killed a few deer before his eyesight caused him to start using a shotgun and buckshot. My father bought it from him in 1968 and carried until 2002 and killed a bunch of deer with that rifle. I bought him a Browning BAR and he gave me this rifle. A few years ago I was able to kill a deer with it making it 3 generations who have used this gun to kill deer.

I have four hunting rifles that are sentimental. My 760 30-06 I bought in 1977, the year my son was born. He loved it and got it from me. He mounted a Vari-X III 2.5x8 on it. I have the rifle now and got my best buck ever with it. My Rem. 7600 7mm-08 my son bought me. I got a doe with it this year. A dear friend gave me his rifles and shotguns just before he passed. His Savage M99 300 Savage and Ruger M77 tanger 308 are special. The M99 is really special because his wife saved up money to buy it for him after Bob was discharged from the AF in 1954. I used the M99 to take a doe last year. Bob stopped shooting bucks because he liked the meat from does more.

Sure.On one of my deer hunts I used a M70 270 win that belonged to my dad. I hadnt shot it in 10+ years. I need to get a compact NF for it, the NXS i put on it in the meantime is about as long as the gun.

I have my dad’s model 94 32 spl. My neighbors 94 .30-30.. My father in laws .250 m 99 and m70 .30-06.. My grandfathers m54 30-06 and Fox 12 ga. The only one I have never used is the model 70..