Pics & stories of your priceless family heirlooms

[mzdadoc]

My Grandfathers Mossberg Brownie he carried in his pocket as a boy.

The next is the rifle my father gave to my Grandfather when I was born. The only nice thing he ever did in his life!!!! He was no Dad!!!!!
It got sold in an auction sale some forty years ago on accident. When my grandfather died my mom found all the auction documents written in pencil. (They NEVER through anything away! Thankfully)
I called on it and found the original man that bought the rifle. He sold it back to me for Blue Book at the time and delivered it to my mom in SD including the original box. It's a Winchester IL sesquicentennial commemorative 30-30.

[mzdadoc]

That was supposed to be gave not face..... Ugh!

[infidel]

That was supposed to be gave not face..... Ugh!

FYI, there is an edit button, after you have posted in the upper right corner of your post.
Excellent story on the rifle, thanks for posting. Obviously, it was worth far more to you, it was nice of him to sell it back.

[Stradawhovious]

I can't post pictures right now since I'm nowhere near the firearms, but there are a couple in my safe that are very dear to me.

First is a Winchester Model 12 shotty that belonged to my great grandfather, sho bought it new in 1938. It's in fantastic shape, the bore is a mirror, and he had taken the time to engrave his name on one side, and a fairly crude scene of a man and dog hunting on the other.

Next is a High Standard Double Nine....... well, this one is a single nine. It only has the .22LR cylinder, not the .22 mag. This is affectionally called "The 38 cent revolver" for anyone that has spent time with it at the range.

The story goes something like this. My Grandfather was a Minneapolis Police officer. One day, one of the women that lived on his beat found her son with this pistol and overheard him planning some sort of crime or another with it. The woman took the gun and mailed it to my grandfather at the precinct with postage due of 38 cents and a note explaining what was going on. My Grandfather, being the cheap ass he was, refused to pay. All of the other cops pooled their money together (this was the early sixties, and 38 cents was apparently a lot of money to these folks), paid the post man, and good old grandpa took the gun home with him.

It now lives in my safe. Wish I had the note and the postal receipt. I'm sure those were tossed same day.

So neither very rare or expensive, but both very dear. I'm sure they will find a home in my kids' safe someday. I will post pics when I can

I also have the JC higgins .22rifle my father received as an 8th grade graduation gift, and a Stevens .22 rifle my grandfather confiscated from a criminal, but those are missing bolts.

Shame.

[Anokamnman]

I have a Winchester model 94 I believe was made in the 60's. It was my grandfathers. He was like my dad when I was growing up. He used to hunt with it every year to put food on the table for his 7 kids. Then he borrowed it to be and I got my first deer with it. He passed away last summer. I was given the rifle by my family. They knew how much it meant to me. And I am proud to say that next year my son with take it hunting and get his first deer with it as well. I also have his Kimber stainless target 1911.

My other granfather died a few years back. I got his New England Arms break action single shot 410. I know... POS. But it was the first firearm I ever fired. I think I was 5. Thought it was the coolest thing ever.

They all work very well. Will try to get pics up tomorrow.

[connsolo]

[quote="mzdadoc"]My Grandfathers Mossberg Brownie he carried in his pocket as a boy.

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My mother in law of all people has a 60s clone of that brownie. It's chrome with white plastic grips. Snappy and loud little thing.

[tt3]

I have a 1903 Colt hammerless pocket pistol in .32 that my great aunt's husband (as has always been described by me, not great uncle...) carried daily at the gas station he owned. It was the pistol I took my first carry class with.

The other fun one is a Sauer and Sohns .25 that my great aunt also carried during that time.

Both are valued at very little money, but I'd never sell them.

[patrick]

I don't have anything like that,but a couple of years ago I bought a REALLY nice Winchester bolt action .22 competition rifle from my neighbor because he was having financial trouble,house was in forclosure.When I bought it he told me his dad gave it to him in the sixties for competition shooting.I thought to myself "This rifle will never be MINE".A while later he told me he wanted to buy it back some day.It was right before Christmas so I put a lock on it,put it in an old rifle case I didn't use any more,and went over to his place and gave it back him.Said "Merry Christmas" and walked away.If I find out he resold it I'll be a bit upset.I did tell him I'd like to borrow it to shoot it some day and he said that was cool.My daughter was bummed cause she really wanted to shoot it.I had to buy her a Savage bolt .22 to make her happy.

[tim]

My step grandfather passed away last year and left me a Jennings .22 Obviously worth almost nothing but since it was his I'll never part with it. He also left me a Japanese silk flag that was a war souvenir from his uncle. In the box are a couple newspaper clippings with his uncle and the flag right after the war. Has some stamped signatures and hand written ones of we assume the tank battalion it was taken from, very cool.

[mzdadoc]

Our Grandparents saved everything and they became our treasures. In this modern time everything is meant to be thrown away. If not for my grandparents I wouldn't have anything for my kids!!!! Very sad!!!!

[tt3]

I don't have anything like that,but a couple of years ago I bought a REALLY nice Winchester bolt action .22 competition rifle from my neighbor because he was having financial trouble,house was in forclosure.When I bought it he told me his dad gave it to him in the sixties for competition shooting.I thought to myself "This rifle will never be MINE".A while later he told me he wanted to buy it back some day.It was right before Christmas so I put a lock on it,put it in an old rifle case I didn't use any more,and went over to his place and gave it back him.Said "Merry Christmas" and walked away.If I find out he resold it I'll be a bit upset.I did tell him I'd like to borrow it to shoot it some day and he said that was cool.My daughter was bummed cause she really wanted to shoot it.I had to buy her a Savage bolt .22 to make her happy.

That was a very cool thing you did. Very cool.

[rukwikenuf]

this is my Taurus 669-6. it's a 6" 357mag, six-shot. obviously blued steel with wood grips (not sure, might be walnut, i don't care really), and a ported barrel.
this was the first handgun i fired. i was 9. my dad was a little bit of a prick, and he had me fire it with magnums. by the way, it wasn't a ported barrel when he bought the gun. he sent it back to Taurus for some repair work (anyone surprised?) and had them replace the bbl with a ported one. the story he told me was that it was shooting consistently RIGHT. no matter who had the gun in their hand. it does have an adjustable rear sight, and i'm not sure if he had the sight pulled to the far left, but he spent a few extra bucks and had them put the ported bbl on it.

this gun is worth about $200. to me, however, it's priceless. i'll keep it forever if i can.





the other gun that's a priceless family heirloom is my dad's Marlin 30-30. not sure how old it is, but it doesn't have the crossbolt safety. it does have a Redfield 3x scope mounted which defeats the purpose of an (approximately) 18 inch barreled, levergun (in my opinion), but he's taken quite a few whitetails with it. this gun was my Grandpa's before it was dad's. Grandpa was convinced by his friends from work in the late 60's to go deer hunting. he bought this rifle, scoped it, and took it in the woods. never fired a shot out of it. Dad got the rifle in the mid-80s (my dad's side of the family are city-boy-jews and never really were firearm-folk)

[45Badger]

I'm working on building the collection for my kids, grand kids, great grand kids. I had two guns as a kid that I did not value and traded for new stuff that I liked better. 30 years later, I wish I had kept them.

[Snakeman721]

You guys are lucky, my dad wasn't into guns or hunting so I had to build my collection all by myself starting with a Ruger Old Army black powder revolver when I was 17. That was fun to shoot until I turned 21 and got a Ruger Blackhawk in .357. It's been an on and off addiction since then. I still don't have any of those evil black rifles with all the tacticool do-dads hanging off of it...lol. Perhaps one day...

[mzdadoc]

You guys are lucky, my dad wasn't into guns or hunting so I had to build my collection all by myself starting with a Ruger Old Army black powder revolver when I was 17. That was fun to shoot until I turned 21 and got a Ruger Blackhawk in .357. It's been an on and off addiction since then. I still don't have any of those evil black rifles with all the tacticool do-dads hanging off of it...lol. Perhaps one day...

Just think in just a bunch of years your grandchildren will post what you gave them. It has to start sometime....