Along the lines of your comments, I recently gifted a single shot Lithgow .22 to my grandsons. The rifle was my fathers when he was a boy and was the rifle my brothers and I first used. It is truly worthless as a rifle to anyone other than a descendant of my old man. My grandsons bring it out here with their dad and shoot it down on my range and I get a kick out of watching them and telling them about when I started learning and the times I had with it. That old average looking worthless rifle is a family heirloom to us and I reckon my young grandsons (7 & 5) have already developed enough of a connection with it that it will continue to be treasured by generations beyond them.
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