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The Uberti Colt 45 replica pictured was sponsored to be housed in my safe by an individual that lives in a gun unfriendly country. He grew up watching cowboy movies and dreamed of someday firing a pistol. During his stay he was able to fire a variety of firearms. I was happy (and proud) to make such a dream come true. It also made me realize how I take certain things for granted.

One other special pistol was from my better half (mentioned in an older post). She purchased an XD9SC and put it in the safe with a gift tag saying it was from the XD elves.

Thanis

Winchester Model 12: Father's bird hunting gun. Gave it to me over the summer (parents were passing on some 1976 centennial carbines to my brothers and I think it was an attempt to make things equal).

I love the gun, but get burned skeet shooting with such a long barrel.

Still, I love it, and I feel good that in addition to some skeet, I'm getting practice with my future turkey hunting shotgun.

30.06 Remington: The gun I don't like using because of the history.

Friend's grandfather died young (long ago and before friend & I were born). Friend's Uncle (not blood related) inherited (think he was hunting buddy). Friend's father inherited from Uncle. Friend's father did not feel the need to pass down the rifle to son (my friend). Not a money issue. Did not offer to son (and did not share it was being sold). Purchased by my brother. Gift from family to me on my 25th birthday.

My friend is not a big hunter, he does not know I own the rifle, I always feel like I am using my friend's gun.

I'm trying to get my 74 year old father to pass down his 30.06 Savage to me so I can hunt with something I feel better about.

The rest or my guns are I want, I buy. Nothing special.

swiftyjuan

My Winchester 52 was the target rifle of William Saroyan. When he died, his family sold all of his weapons (63) to John McCormicks Firearms, and I ended up with the 52 and the original scope, mounted by Winchester. It shoots like a dream too!

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All the time I was growing up I wanted a "Red Ryder" BB gun.
My mother said "You'll shoot your eye out!" so I never ever had one.

The God's honest truth! That is the reason that movie gets played at my house every Christmas.
I related this to my wife, and lo and behold; Christmas morning 2 years ago, there was a long box behind the sofa.....That wonderful woman bought me my long sought gun. 50 years after my mom said "NO!"
I have many many guns of all kinds; but that one is the most special to me and always will be!

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optikal

my winchester model 70,

a friends dad owned an auto shop, moved and sold it.
i went to the new owner to get some work done on my A/C, started talking to him and he found out he worked with my dad in the 80's at a car dealership. i didnt think anything of it but he asked "you still live in dogwood?" and when i said yes he told me to come by his house and gave me his address in the neighborhood saying "ive got something of yours"
unaware of what it might be i showed up and talked to him about hunting for a minute and he shared some public places to hunt and then pulled out my 1964 winchester model 70 .270! i asked what the deal was and he told me this story that was confirmed by my dad who now lives in branson.

"this gun was given to your father when he graduated high school by his dad, your uncle has the same gun from when he graduated. your dad loaned this gun to me when we worked together in '84, the week you were born! your dad always told me to hold on to it and enjoy hunting with it he would get it back oneday. your dad quit his job in '87 and i havent seen him since. i figured you would like to have it since you like to hunt, and after all, it is your gun"

my dad confirmed the story, and my cousin has the match to it that was given to my uncle. what makes this an extra special gun to me is that, i was named after my grandfather, whom i have never met as he passed away before i was born. so i feel like it is from him in a way. i hunt with it every time i go, from what i know of my grandfather he would want me to use it and enjoy it instead of it sitting up in a corner.

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ppkheat

optikal- great story and what good luck you had. BTW we don't live too far apart

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Frisco

First Gen Colt SAA 4 3/4" .44WCF (44-40) that belonged to my Dad. He carried it on the day retired as a Deputy in Pima County Arizona. I rode as his partner on the day of his "Last Ride"...I had been out of the academy and a deputy for a year.

Colt Series 70 Combat Commander lightly tricked out by Wilson Combat in 1989. It was the gun I carried while I was a deputy. Dad had it done for me as an academy graduation present.

Circa 1962 6" Colt Python .357 Magnum. It was Dad's duty gun for his whole career as a deputy.

Circa 1965 2" Colt Python .357 Magnum. It was Dad's off duty, general packin' gun until the day he died in 1994.

Browning Hi Power manufactued in 1976. It was th gun I carried for 8 years while working UC assignments.

Ruger Mk II 5" .22lr pistol. My first handgun....Dad bought it for my 8th birthday.

Ruger 10/22 rifle. It has well over 500,000rounds through it. Dad bought it for my 5th birthday.

All the rest of the many guns in my safe have a story, or some value other than monetary...but these will all belong to my daughter when I finally kick off.

Charliee

A Remington model 11 with a buttplate that says Browning. It was my grandfaters shotgun that he hunted quail with. I remember very well the day he brought it to my dad in the late 60s

A Marlin model 39 that belonged to my great uncle that my father had reblued.
My single shot 20 gauge that my dad gave to me as my first gun.

My fathers 16 gauge double barrel.

The rest of my guns are ones that I purchased or earned some way or the other. They will all belong to my son one day.

chipperi

1: My first gun a Remington Nylon .22
2: A Mossburg single shot bolt action that my uncle used to shoot in High School...Yes High School
3: My Grandfathers carry gun a S&W 39-2 ASP Custom.

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There are two guns that have special meaning to me.

The first is a Webley .455 revolver my grandfather brought home after WWI. When he died in the mid 1960's my father kept the gun and it was the first handgun I ever shot as a teen over 40 years ago. When my father died in 1995, I wasn't able to bring it home after the funeral (I lived in a different state and had flown home for the service) so my brother put the gun away in a closet and has never even fired the gun. I've only seen him one since then (I'm in TX, he lives in NC) but he said the next time I come for a visit the revolver will be there waiting.

The second gun is a Ruger P-85. I purchased it new back in the late 80's, then it was stolen during a burglary in 1991 when I was living in New Orleans. I gave the gun up as lost and bought a new one about a year later, but in 1996 the NOLA police called me and said they had found the gun in a drainage canal that was being widened and I could either have them destroy it or I could come and get it. When I got the gun from the PD it was so plugged with dried mud and goop the slide, barrel, trigger and most everything else wouldn't operate. I soaked it in a bucket of water over night, washed it off with a rag and garden hose then used brake cleaner and a tooth brush to finally get the slide to cycle. I broke it down, cleaned and oiled everything, replaced the grips (they were cracked) and had a friend who worked at an indoor range test fire the gun. He ran a full box of ammo through it and he couldn't find a single problem. In fact, he said it had the smoothest trigger he'd ever seen on a Ruger P series pistol and it hit POA and the X ring at 25'. Well, it was later told me by a policeman that my stolen gun had been used by a local drug kingpin and had been tossed from his car into the canal after a murder and drug related police chase. Were it not for the canal being widened, the gun would probably have never been found. Though the pistol had been in the mud and water for over a year, there wasn't a spot of rust on it and it actually shot better than the gun I had replaced it with. It was a little beat up and I did replace the cracked factory grips, but it shoots at least as good (if not better) than it did before the pistol was taken and has NEVER had a FTF/FTE of any kind. I told a Ruger rep the story at a gun show a few years later and Ruger offered to completely refinish it, but I prefer to keep the gun the way it is, with "character" and a story to tell. It's now our bedroom gun and the pistol my wife uses when she tests for her CC permit.

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