40 years ago I bought my first centerfire. A sporterised m96. I still have it to this day its on its second barrel and now has a timney and ramline stock
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40 years ago I bought my first centerfire. A sporterised m96. I still have it to this day its on its second barrel and now has a timney and ramline stock
Savage shorty. It gets thrashed and still Moa.
howa up for sale yet???
Lee Enfield .303 #5 Jungle Carbine, bought in 1970 from Tony Busch's Corner Sports Shop in Nelson, so had it 53 years now. I was fifteen at the time & pestered the bejeezuz out of my folks till they bought it for me, lots of car washing, lawn mowing etc to pay it off. Shot my first couple of deer with it till I decided a PH .308 with a 2 1/2 power Kahles scope was the go (blame Graham Henry for the latter, a Rod & Rifle article extolling the virtues of low power scopes for bush shooting won me over) I've long since moved the PH on but still have the Jungle Carbine, did a reversible recoil pad mod to it & did some reduced load with 125 gr Sierras & IMR 4198 was fun shooting for the kids at the range. It had long had a dark barrel but before I got into the latter activities, I gave it a birthday with some Barnes copper out stuff, hell what a revelation, actually a pretty decent barrel. Its a keeper, at least till the fun police tell me I'm too old. :)
I remember Tony's shop well. Bought a 4x81 Pecar Champion scope there in about 1973. Was $104 which I recall was a lot of saved pocket money. I tried to get a 4X Kahles but there were none around.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
my gun may well have been purchased by my gg grandfather 2nd hand in our historians opinion.
brno model 2 bought when I was 16, now 70 years old. Will never sell it.
My father got his dads shotgun (my grandfather) in 1955 when grandaad died. My understanding is that grandad bought it in the late 20s, early 30s when he returned from WW1 with a bride. Dad had it until he passsed and I got it to look after then. Its a 'sears' gun sxs 12g made in Belgium so not worth a great deal, but would be about 100 years in the family so worth something to me. I had a gunsmith tidy it up a few years ago and it still worked for a while but it has a habit of letting both hammers fall inone trigger so is now not used. It can only be used with very light loads or subsonic as it will not handle modern normal 12g ammo....
Snap :XD: Although I've only owned my one for 40 years so far since I'm still a way away from the big 7 0 :) it was my first rifle and I will also never sell it
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Originally Posted by garyp
I have had a single damascus barrel external hammer Bayard Hazard Climax shotgun my grandfather bought in 1908 for 53 years. Also a Brno 2e for 41 years.
My first and longest owned firearm is a Winchester 9422 in 22lr that I bought in 1973. I still shoot regularly and it is in excellent condition. Toady I own numerous quality firearms but this remains my first and favorite.
Krico .22 Rf semi-auto August 1963 first rifle still have the registration paper
ihave a toz model 17 ive owned for over 40yrs -rugged rusky .22 catholic in its taste for ammo and features a paulus manders suppressor fittedn himself and stillruns sweet as . "pops"shotty ive mentioned above -weel weve glued the crack and hope it holds .Im stilltrying to decipher its history from proof marks and cousins extensive knowledge of the clan history
he tells me when gggrandma died Pop sealed the bedroom up and wouldnt let anyone enter it .cousins mum took over family duties tending to her siblings etc .pop slept in a "scullery just off the kitchen and he kept the shotty by his side .
aunty every so often would be scared s...ss by the shotty roaring as pop nailed another blackbird on the fruit trees -birds he used to bait his eelpots and beleive me there were some bloody big eels in the family creek and arnold river.let alone lake brunner.
