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Got to thinking about this when I took a little walk with my old Ruger Single-Six. I bought that gun with money I earned slapping asbestos mud on boiler room fittings back in 1963. It has been with me since then. It fed me a couple of times, killed a lot of snakes, and chased away a bad guy who broke in to my house in Hawaii one night.
Life has been hard for that old friend and it has undergone several changes. It isn't a pretty blue any more. It now sports a brass Super Blackhawk grip frame and trigger. It's still a three screw, no fancy changes from Ruger.
I guess It has been by my side for 47 years now. Think I will keep it.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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i have a Marlin model 5 that i have had for 23 years now. i got it when i was 2 as a birthday present from my uncle. been shooting it since i was 3. still shoots great.
30-06 till i die, the greatest round ever! I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy! CEO of a Turdlike People: Turds & Tats Division... (per Ingwe  )
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DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
I LOVE MY COUNTRY IT'S THE GOV'T I FEAR
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Remington 581 for Christmas when I was 12, so 35 years. Still have it.
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Retired and Loving It!!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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37 for me ..... marlin 22lr semi-auto
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other the person to die ......
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
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Marlin 880 22LR. I've had it for 20 years. It was the first gun my dad ever bought me .
Deal with it.
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I have a Citori my dad bought in the early 70s.
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30 Years. Winchester model 74 .22 that was assigned to me when I was about 5. Serial number dates it to 1939. Still my favorite gun to shoot.
...new laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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30 Years. Winchester model 74 .22 that was assigned to me when I was about 5. Serial number dates it to 1939. Still my favorite gun to shoot. I have a 22 short and a 22LR model 74 and i agree.... they are 1 really fun gun to shoot....
The worst thing ever to happen to cops is the personal video recorder... Now people can see the truth
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Still have my first shotgun, an Ithaca Model 37T with 2 barrels. My grandad got it for my 14th birthday in 1966.
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." --Robert Duvall.
"Fill your hand, you son-of-a-bitch!" --John Wayne.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I'm 51 years old & I have guns that have been in the family longer than I have.
Mike
Always talk to the old guys , they know stuff.
Jerry Miculek
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............ my 14th birthday in 1966. of which, HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY!!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill
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I have the two model 42's that my dad bought for him and I right around 1957, and I will soon be passing them on down to my son and grandson.
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I still have the Mossberg 342K .22 I got for Christmas, in 1957. That means I have had it for almost 53 years!!
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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25 years for my T/C Hawkins 50 cal. Shot 18 deer with Hawkeye. We had an understanding you might say, "Brown On The Ground".
25 years with my Marlin Model 60. Best little 22 on the market back then in my opinion.
Ken
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Winchester model 62, got it when I was 6 and still have it.
Winchester model 37 .410, got it when I was 8 and still have it.
Colt Cobra .38 I bought in 1961.
Many more have come and gone but these just stuck.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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32 years but that's becasue I'm 46 and got it when I was 14.
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I bought a Browning .22 take down when I turned 18..27 years ago. My Dad just gave me his Dad's MINT Winchester Model 52b Target .22. My Grandfather bought it new in 1940 and shot it at a couple Turkey shoots in Nevada. The gun was last shot 30 years ago,I plan on shooting it before summer is over. The gun weighs around 13 pounds and is bone stock...Perfect condition never altered in any way.
Jed York does not own the 49ers; Russell Wilson does.
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when I was 7, an Uncle gave me my first gun. Savage/Stevens single barrel 20 ga.
Still have it. That makes 57 years.
Sam......
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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