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Inside the back page of my Cub/Boy Scout or Webelose handbook was as single shot Savage 22 with a Mannlicher stock. I must have spent not hours, but days looking at that add. Then I found one of those rifles at the local Western Auto store.

I'd visit the rifle often. The proprietor finally told me I'd handled it enough. I couldn't even come up with a deposit, much less buy it.

Fast forward 30 years. At a 1400 table gun show. On the walk down an isle, I saw it, the Savage, lying on top of its original box. As I was walking toward it & trying to be cool while my thoughts were; I've now got the money, & within reason that gun will be mine.

Upon inspection? that had to be one of the most slapped together, cheap, stamped steel rifles I ever saw. Kind of a sad experience, or reality that the past was just that.

Luger P08. Still do not have.

A fine piece of workmanship with a ton of history.

A modern gitter done gat in 9mm? Look elsewhere.

Thompson sub machine gun... still do not have one... I might go somewhere one of these days and find one to shoot...

i think we all want one of them. ever since my old man told me stories of hunting fallow deer in germany with one during ww2.

Model 94 30-30 , Remington 1100 12 ga

My uncles MD 71 Winchester, The 71 has to be the best looking gun I ever held.

Weatherby's

Go and shoot one, worthwhile experience

The one I always lusted for and could never afford was "Dirty Harry's" .44 Auto mag.

I think that is the coolest looking gun ever made.

About 1960, when I was 10, was the first time I ever noticed a Weatherby rifle ad in some magazine I saw over at my older cousin's place. Had never seen anything like it with that high gloss finish, high comb stock and all the other embellishments of that era. I was mesmerized.. Stared at that thing for an awful long time. Never did own one that fancy but today I do have a Vanguard in a B & C Synthetic stock. Back in those days my handgun fave was the P-08 Luger that was seen so much in TV & Movies. In the summer my personal carry "gun" was a Luger squirt gun and they really do point well. I wore out a couple of them in a few summers. Always yearned for a real one when I got older but decided against it when the prices got real high. Then in 2001 I inherited the one that one of my uncles liberated from Germany's V-2 Rocket factory in 1945. It had been in his closet for many years and I never knew of its existence until about 3 years before he passed. His son didn't want it so I got the nod for it. That's now a treasured heirloom with a real family history except I can't prove where he got it because he either never got capture papers for it or couldn't recall if he had any.

As a teenager I wanted a Browning T-Bolt (Belgian) .22. I found and purchased a '66 T-Bolt Deluxe on Gunbroker last year that was a factory restored salt gun. It's mint and shoots very well.

Savage Model 99 in 250 Savage, now have a couple, and a 1911, got my 10mm in a 1911.

I always wanted a Marlin 39. The local hardware store usually had one in stock and once even had a Marlin 39 carbine. That was the grail rifle for me. For some reason my Dad was pretty much against having a 22 around and when he said no, that was it....It wasn't until I was in college that I got a 22.

I ended up buying 3 of the 39 carbines and gave them to my sons when they got old enough to appreciate them. I have a Marlin 39 D and always will have it.

Marlin mod 39, rem nylon 66, never got them. Sav 99 now have 4, a Drilling, now have 2, SAV24, got one, never use it. Nice SXS 12 ga, got one when I was 14, loved it, was stolen in 1970 when I was 18, finally bought a Win 21 12 ga skeet in 85, love it. wanted a COLT Woodsman , got one, 1st wife took it when she left, never replaced it. Had one of those LLAMA 22's for a while, thought it was cool but it jammed a lot.

Some great responses. These are the kind of responses I was hoping for. I am finally working on putting together another one I've wanted since I was an early teenager. Always wanted a 35 whelen. I picked up a post 64 model 70 on Monday in 30-06 for $350. Gonna send it out to JES and get it rebored. And then next will be....who knows.

Good for you Bears!!! Keep us posted!

I grew up reading JOC. My first store-bought big game rifle was a tang ruger 77 in 270win purchased in 1973 or 74. I used that one rifle for everything from coyotes to moose for 23 years. Always wanted a nice m70 also in 270win and once FN began making them in SC I bought a super grade. Marvelous rifle, very accurate, everything I hoped it would be. I used it last season to kill a whitetail. One of my grandsons has dibs on it anytime he wants it.

Other guys had posters of heather locklear but I had a Colt Delta Elite 1911 in 10mm… stainless steel, black strimpled polymer grips, and that beautiful red triangle.

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Haven’t ever even fired one much less bought one.

Another would be a Winchester 94/22.

A BAR , always fascinated me . Shot one a couple times , grinning ear to ear .
Nope , still don’t have one .
Original 03 A3 , got a really nice one , shot real good , a friend gave me a 1917 Eddystone and Arisaka , so I gave him the 03 A3 .
Would trade him back if he offered , but he loves that rifle , so I don’t bring it up .
Nice Winchester Garand , gave that to a young man that cherishes firearms . Sucker has caught up and passed me .
Wish I had snagged a BAR before the prices got stupid , thanks to 68 .
A 1917 beltfed was one that’s still a dream too .
Kenneth