Thread: Longest continuously owned firearms

Originally Posted by kotuku

toz model 17 I bought in the late 70s off a guy i workd with. out on loan to shooting mate at present . have in my possession a clan heirloom12g sxs ??circa 1863 faintly visible on the rib is A&W Carthy dunedin last fired in 1963by cuzzie whom dad promptly consiscated it from on account of its damascus barrels .F/pins were buggered to so i removed em. Strictly a treasure . Inparallel -I do have a couple of firearms which are repeats of my very first -my era gameking SXS and stirling model 14.

a small correction here-the above gun ,according to my research of its proof marks was proofed in the birmingham proof house between1887 -1896.speaking to cuzzie who is clan historian ,he says the old fella had a collection of firearms ,being an avid hunter .unfortunately too ive just discovered it has a crack right through the neck of the stock. another cousin has a hammer gun?an earlier purchase ,and our historian has a very old handheld reloader which according to the late gunsmith paulus manders probably made rounds in the 10-11guage range in modern idiom-they tried a12g in it no luck.

my gun may well have been purchased by my gg grandfather 2nd hand in our historians opinion.