What old historical guns do you or like me your Dad has?

Question

Well being that I'm only 14 I can't own a gun but the 2 historical guns my Dad has is a newly bought M1 Garand that I have yet to shoot and a 1939 German Luger that was always in my family (my dads dad bought it after the 2nd world war in America). So what old historical guns do you have?

Answer 1

My grandfather has a martine hennry under leaver its been converted to take a .22 though i think it was origenaly a 243.
Its the same gun thats featured in the film zuloo.
Used to defend rawks drifft in the boer war at the turn of the 20th centuary

Answer 2

Hey! My best friend also has a 1939 Luger, in excellent condition, matching numbers throughout, and a very-good original holster and extra magazine.

Ain't they great! What beautiful machines.

My favorite is a custom Smith and Wesson Model 19 .357 revolver I've had for many years. It's an impressive
performer that seems to be just-right in every way.

Another favorite was a Savage Model 23aa .22 targret rifle.
It was sleek, solid and the most accurate .22 I've ever met, hands down. You seemingly couldn't miss with the rifle. Incredible.
What is more incredible, is someone unexpectedly just threw it in on a trade I was already satisfied with. Free!

Answer 3

I own an example of the last revolver ever issued as an exclusive front-line sidearm to the United States Army. It's a Colt Army Model 1909 revolver, S/N 32xxx, chambered in .45 Colt. The M1909 revolver is an oft-overlooked piece of American military history. Starting at S/N 30001, only 19,503 of them were ever made. And save for 350 which stayed at the Springfield Armory for testing, every last one of them were sent to the Phillipines to equip the American soldiers putting down the Moro insurgency. And there they stayed (some may have seen service in France, during WWI, even. Though that source may have confused the M1909 with the M1917 revolver, produced because they couldn't make M1911s fast enough,) until they were phased out and replaced with Colt M1911 semi-automatics in .45 ACP.

Mine is in the very first batch of 6000 ordered. The bluing is in okay condition, and there are still hints of the beautiful blue nitre-bluing on the trigger, frame screws, hammer, and firing pin. It also has a crisp single-action pull, and a long, but smooth double-action pull, and locks up tighter than brand-new revolvers I've handled at gun-shops. And it handles smokeless ammunition easily . . . lead Cowboy Action target loads, Winchester Silvertip JHPs . . . if I do my part, then the gun will turn in groups tight enough for the bullet-holes to touch. Not bad for a 98 year-old veteran.

Answer 4

Reproduction:

Kentucky Rifle
(which my uncle and I built from a partially complete kit)

Hawkin's Rifle

Kentucky pistol [essentially a cut down rifle]

Colt 1851 Navy

Texas New Army Revolver
(this "reproduction" is roughly sixty years old)

Origional;

Springfield 1884 Trapdoor rifle
(Custer carried the nearly identical 1873 Carbine at the Battle of Little Big Horn)

Springfield 1903A3

Springfield 1903A4

Springfield 1917

M1 Garand

M1 Carbine

M2 Carbine

Winchester M97

Browning M2HB

Browning 1918A2 [BAR]

Colt 1911

Colt 1917

Mosin Nagant 91/30

Lee-Enfield No1Mk.III

Mauser 98k

Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38
(Identical to the one used by Lee Harvey Oswald)

Answer 5

I have an LC Smith 12-bore that 4 generations of my family have hunted with. My favorite 22 is a Winchester 63 and my favorite hog-shooter (and sometimes deer) is a Winchester 71. If I can get them back from my little brother, there's also a Colt SAA (44 Spl) and a 12/12/8x57JR (.318) drilling that's unfortunately no longer legal in my state to use for turkey hunting.

Answer 6

A Model 96 Swedish Mauser

Answer 7

I have a model 1894 30W.C.F. made in 1897, model 69A 22. made in the early 30s, model 1873 32-20 made in 1892 and a civil war musket found in the wall of a house when remodeling. The last to belong to a good friend.

Answer 8

i could desire more suitable recommendations. Are we talking shotgun, rifle, or pistol? And is this for use for searching, self-protection, or only delight in possession. i'd manage to furnish you some ideas, yet i desire somewhat more suitable to flow on. @added data: ok. $1500 will purchase you a honest volume of gun. If it truly is more suitable of a coach piece, i could attempt to discover something in like a Winchester 30/30 lever action commemorative. relaxing to shoot, the lever action says "wild west" and the commemorative, in case you'll discover one at that cost, typically has an particularly good badge contained in the inventory. I had a pal that had one which i tried to purchase from him, regrettably, he stated "no way" lol. i'm particular you're dad will have a good time with it because it truly is from you. If a pistol is more suitable what you had in ideas, evaluate a Kimber .40 5 high quality. previous type with cutting-part technologies.

Answer 9

The most Historical gun is a 1942 m38 mosin nagat (I know they millons of them ) when I was cleaning it when first got it I found a part of wheat plant in the stock and a primer was the breach of the gun . the gun was shoot in a wheat field some after 1942 and before if pack in cosmoil at the end of the war .

Answer 10

I currently own an 1894 Winchester .30-30 manufactured in 1949. It must have seen a lot of history. I used to own a 1910 Mauser pistol (.25 acp caliber) that had German proof marks.

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