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Mom called me and said her dad wanted some tomatos and asked if I had some. I filled a 5 gallon bucket full, drove the 90 miles there to give him. “I can’t just take these....I’ll trade you my shotgun”. So I’ve got his old Savage 745 (A5’ish clone) that he bought later in life to replace the one he had that burned up in a house fire. He passed away the next year.

For Christmas a couple years ago my wife had bought my dads dads Model 12 from him for me for Christmas. I used it a few weeks later on wild pheasants. He passed less than a year later.

Glad to have them both.

Doctor Dan, you do realize hanging about this place is a bad habit?

Got my dad's entire gun collection....... A Winchester Model 67 single shot .22 he got in the latter 1930's and his Iver Johnson Champion 16 ga. break open single shot from about 1940 or '41. In 1978 I had the Iver Johnson re-blued and the receiver re-casehardened by an old master gunsmith right here locally. It's still stunningly beautiful. Also inherited a Marlin 30AS ( economy model 336) in 30-30 and a German Luger from an uncle in 2001. He personally brought the Luger home from Germany in 1945.

I have my Great Grandfather's 1884 Springfield Trapdoor. He was on a marksmanship team with the NY National Guard. He inscribed the info on the rifle stock. Company D, 12th Regiment NYNG. I am guessing he was a member in 1900-1903





It also has an inspector's mark. I looked it up once and found the name, just don't remember at the moment.

I inherited two firearms from my grandfather, first was an Ithaca/SKB model 500 20 gauge. Shot my first rabbit with it. Chip was good at cutting out all the shot and fur.

The second was a centennial octagon bbl model 94 30-30.

Had to buy Dad’s BDL 308 at auction....after the evil step-mother sold it, shortly after his death. Never could find/track down the Fox side-by-side. The 700 was an early model, with the swirly, (apparently) stamped checkering.

Got their buck knives too, 110’s, 102’s, 105’s.

Little Rem M12A Story goes, my grandfather’s older brothers left it in the cellar on a bin of cabbage for a spell, causing the barrel to rust and pit on one side pretty bad. My uncle inherited it when a kid and tried to sand it out. Looks like hell. My dad said as boys they shot it until “when you shot it, nothing came out, so we stopped using it.” Probably a good idea.... I got it as “a project”. Removed an unbelievable amount of lead from the throat. Bore roached but i wanted the barrel for the history, so relined it. Now having some issue with misfires, but i’ll get it done.

Ps have a nice condition model a and c to play with in the meantime. Too much fun!

Nothing. My brother and sister took ALL...

Thanks men, a good thread.

Nothing, no money, nothing at all.

My grandfather had some rifles he call relics, flintlocks, my father had them, then a family friend saw them, and said his cousin Alex borrowed them from Bert's father. My father let him have them. Gone now, I'll live.

My grandfathers model 37 red letter 12ga. Stock is in poor condition, I keep saying I'm gonna fix it but never get around to it. Gave all the other stuff to my nephews.

Got a few from my Grandpa. Coolest are a custom 7mm Mag on a Mauser and a Rem 121 smooth bore 22 pump.

From My Grand Uncle Mikhail

No firearms but I got my love of Wincheater levers from my step-dad.

Sako Hi Power
Savage 1899
Marlin 336

Had to check in to see what "inhered" was....

Please share your family tree.

My father left me a very nice High Standard HD military. Vintage about 1950.

In my family when someone passes away all the guns disappear and nobody "knows anything"

they sack the house while the rest of the family is at the graveside service?

Around here, it a race all the way back to granny’s from the funeral home.