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when I was 9 my dad gave me a ithaca model 49 22 cal , when I was 11 my grandparents gave me a ithaca model 66 in 20ga , when I was 16 my dad and my uncle gave me a savage 99f in 308win that I had been pining for for a whole year , and when I was 29 my wife gave me a beautiful lil girl. all happened on christmas day

A Daisy Red Rider was one of my most memorable gifts. Not a Christian gift but I was probably about 5 or 6. I had to tuck the stock under my arm because the LOP was too long. I still remember my dad taking me to get it and all of the fun that I had with that BB gun until I was a few years older and my buddy got a Crossman 760 pellet rifle. That was a game changer for actually killing a few rodents and a slew of starlings.

In between I got a Ruger 10/22 but couldn’t shoot it in my back yard. I could take the Crossman out to the back yard and wood lots near home and shoot as much as I wanted. I loved that pellet rifle.

When I was dating the pretty little thing that became my wife I had mentioned that I would like to have a CZ 500 in 9.3x62. On Christmas morning it was propped up against the tree with a red ribbon around the barrel. Still hunt with the rifle and still have the same pretty little thing in my life.

Having recently become a grandfather I thought the new grandson could use his first rifle. Release date some years from now.

earlybrd;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the day was kind to you and you're all well.

This is a bit of a story, but then most of my responses seem to be so here goes.

When I was 15, my eldest sister was living with her husband in a Cree FN community where she was the community nurse. Doctors would fly in if possible a couple times a month.

She decided she was going to learn to tan a moose hide the old Cree way with brains and poplar smoke with some of the older ladies teaching her.

When she asked if there was anything anyone wanted from that moose hide, being me I said I'd love some big mitts for hunting, ice fishing and snowmobiling.

She and my BIL came home for Christmas, but under the tree was no "big mitts" sized box for me, so I thought she mustn't have made them.

Then the night we opened presents, a few hours before there was a package about the right size and weight with my name on it! I was never more excited to open the presents.

When it was my turn, I tore into it and found that she'd wrapped up a frozen beaver tail!!!

After she'd had a good laugh about my reaction, she brought out a bag with a pair of sheep skin lined, fringed and fur trimmed moose hide mitts.

I used them this year hunting in the late season like I've done many, many times in the 45 years since there.

There's my tale of a tail - ending in moose hide mitts.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Dwayne

That’s awesome!

A CZ 500 chambered in 9.3x62 seems just about perfect.

7x35 Binolux basic Japanese porro prism binocs, first Christmas in America, 1969, first pair of binoculars, a gift from my parents.

Over the next twenty years they went everywhere, back East, England, New Mexico, Africa. Then one day in Texas 20+ years back I had them in a backpack with some books, bent em out of alignment.

Wife was born on Christmas Day. She puts up with a lot of my schitt.

Wow, you were an Earlybrd weren't you!

I have some Sears branded Japanese made porro prism binoculars that I got for Christmas when I was 13. I didn’t think of those but I still have them and they’re one of my favorite Christmas gifts. I got those, hunting boots and a blaze/camo jacket that year. At the time MI rifle hunting was 14 and up. I could hardly wait to gun hunt the next fall.

A Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge in 66 or 67. My son has it now.

I haven't had a pair of waders last me 3 years, regardless of size. Congrats.

When I was 13 I got to buy a brand new Remington 1100, it cost $150. This would be about 1975 and I made about $8 per week cutting grass for 2 older widow ladies. As my Dad had fronted the money, I was giving up as much as I could to pay it off, but fell some short by the end of the season.

On Christmas there was a small box that rattled when you shook it and I couldn't figure out what it was. When I opened it, there was some ball bearings in there and a note that said "One 1100 paid in full"

That was 47 years ago,

KC

Only mine but my dad 1932 a orange Sumter SC. Living in a one room shack dirt floor.And we bitch every day !

A Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge in 1968 at 12 years old. My dad also got one for himself. $100 each.

I now have both of them, but my dad is still kicking at 94 yo.

Daisy Red Ryder when I was 5.

And a Honda Trail 70 when I was 10.

Remington Fieldmaster 572

G23

Winchester 70 Westerner .243 w/ Weaver 4x

I honestly hated this time of year, until I had kids and was able to give them their presents. I remember the looks on their faces when they open their gifts.

So my favorite is memories.

13.

870 LW Wingmaster in 20 ga.

rb.