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For more than two years on The Gun Basics, readers have been sending us submissions for our serial of vintage firearms, Blast From the Past. If you were to gather all of the firearms together into one massive gun safe, you would arguably have the greatest, most enviable collection of guns in the earth, including archetype rifles, fine shotguns, and even a couple truly rare guns (the Fly Gun?). Without question, though, the best and most priceless guns in this collection are the heirloom rifles and shotguns that have been in families for generations—passed down from fathers to sons to grandsons—and are still used in the woods during hunting season every fall. What follows is a listing of some of our favorite Blasts From the Past.
Vintage Single-Shot Shotguns
one. Stevens Model 94
In 1963, when I was xv years old and growing up in Lansing, Mich., my Uncle Jerry had me exercise a few odd jobs for him, and as payment he presented me with a Stevens Model 94 16-gauge—an one-time single shot shotgun with a Tenite constructed stock. It was my only shotgun for many years, but somewhen I sold it as I began a career as a Michigan conservation officer and moved to northern Michigan.
I ever felt bad near selling that gun, specially after Uncle Jerry passed away. While spending time with family in Lansing during Christmas in 2015, I stopped at Classic Arms. As I was browsing the used gun rack, my eyes came to rest on that old shotgun, looking forlorn and unwanted. I knew information technology was the same gun because I remembered some of the marks on the stock.
Needless to say, I bought the gun—and information technology will never be for sale as long as I am alive. I had a gunsmith replace some springs and open the choke. I have the erstwhile gal grouse hunting each fall and ever seem to have good luck when I am carrying it. It feels similar Uncle Jerry is tagging forth, and brings back many memories of a better globe that I lived in so long ago. Maybe he was tugging at my shirtsleeves and leading me into the store that twenty-four hour period, to give me that gun for the second time now that I am old plenty to capeesh it. —Bob
2. Model 48 Topper
Information technology's far from beingness a very former or rare gun, only this Model 48 Topper means a lot to me. Going into the outdoors with my grandad made for some of my fondest childhood memories. Now, a few years after his passing, I'm not able to become with him, but taking his gun still brings him with me, and the 1940s-era 16-guess reminds me of those life lessons and memories.
Growing up at a fourth dimension when the 16-guess was considered obsolete added to the gun's mystique for me. I tin can remember beingness a wide-eyed child, looking at the dark-stained stock and having my granddad tell me: "I was 16 and wanted a gun to hunt rabbits, and so I got a 16-approximate." The broken bead and every scar on the stock all add to its story. Carrying this old single shot shotgun on a simple Thanksgiving-morning squirrel hunt makes it one of my favorite days of the yr. —Patrick
Classic Double-Barrel Shotguns
3. MacNaughton Bar-in-Forest
The serial number on my uncle's bar-in-forest MacNaughton is 9xx, which suggests information technology was made quondam in the late 1800s. The bar-in-woods action is cute, and it also has Damascus steel barrels which complete the tasteful look.
What makes this double-barrel shotgun even more special, though, is how it came into my uncle'south possession. He inherited it from my great-uncle who had a home FFL (and also wrote a few stories for Field & Stream back in the twenty-four hours). This shotgun was found in a rotting crate in the back of my groovy-uncle's house after he died, and no one knew exactly how he came to be the owner. Anyhow, now it is a squeamish wall hanger, but my uncle and I are considering selling this rare gun to fund a trip to Africa. —Andrew
4. Cogswell and Harrison Konor 12 Gauge
This is my favorite shotgun for flushing birds, an English Cogswell & Harrison Konor 12 estimate, with double triggers and ejectors. With 26-inch open-choked barrels, it is a 6.five pound delight. It was special ordered by a Mr. Hobden and crafted to his specifications. He took commitment at the maker's London showroom on Picadilly Street in December, 1958, co-ordinate to the factory alphabetic character that accompanies the shotgun. The history of the shotgun after it left the showroom is unknown to me until I purchased it in 2012 from a Texas gun dealer. Mr. Hobden must have been nigh my size and stature since the shotgun fits me perfectly, and at a fraction of the cost of a new custom double. I can hardly await for the Wisconsin fall bird season to begin in one case again! The shotgun is featured on page 85 of the book, "Cogswell & Harrison: Ii centuries of Gunmaking," by Cooley and Newton. —Dennis
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5. Parker VH
Every at present and once more a slice turns up that tickles your fancy in a way that you can't explain. Like Charlie Brown and his forlorn-looking Christmas tree, you might fifty-fifty think it needs you as much as yous might think you need it. A couple of months agone, I picked up a nice old Parker VH 12-gauge double-butt shotgun on a i ½ frame with 28-inch tubes choked Modified and Full. This one showed lots of honest use with faint case colors remaining in the protected areas just, and the scratches, dings, and rubs usual to field guns—but it was all original and tight as they come. I bought it to shoot, and and then I didn't mind having the stock rubbed-out, checkering re-cut, and the barrels and trigger bow re-blued. It came back looking great, and today I had the pleasure of taking it out on a preserve hunt for chukars. The onetime girl fabricated a overnice showing using RST 2 ½-inch No. seven ½ loads, as the game strap in the photograph will attest.
I know some will cringe at the thought of restoring a rare gun like an original Parker, only I just love to hunt with quondam archetype shotguns and don't own any prophylactic queens. Bringing this one back to a semblance of its original celebrity means I'll use information technology proudly and often and with no apologies. I have some other VH on a two frame with 30-inch barrels that I also enjoy shooting, but I think this new one could become a become-to uplander for me. It's a flake livelier in the hands, swings similar a dream, and is a joy to acquit. And it looks correct at home standing in the front row of the condom forth with the others that I tend to reach for commencement.
I've long had a love matter with walnut and blueish steel: old double-butt shotguns, Belgian Brownings, lever-deportment, bolt guns—basically anything made before I was born, which was 1963. I own a couple of all-conditions guns for practical reasons, but to me they're simply tools. They have no soul. The wife tells me often that I was born in the wrong century. I call up she's right. —Greg
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half dozen. L.C. Smith Shotgun
The gun is a xvi-gauge L.C. Smith fabricated, I believe, in 1913. It smells of oil, and has some small nicks and scratches in the wooden stock. My grandad, Skeet Miller, bought it used at a hardware store in the'50s or '60s. He shot ducks, dove, and quail with information technology for years. I still shoot information technology today, though simply rarely because I'm afraid of what could happen to the thing. He would probably prefer if I shot it more.
The gun reminds me of my gramps the same way that the smell of blackness coffee and cigarette fume remind me of him. I call back those smells, and seeing that gun on early autumn mornings before the dominicus had come up. Dressed in my older brother'south hand-me-down cover-up coveralls with a five-gallon bucket in one hand and a single-shot 20-gauge in the other, I would be tromping through a wet peanut field with my grandfather by my side.
My grandfather would bus me to lead doves a chip, and to await until they were on top of our position before I shot. I would miss with my unmarried shot, and and then he would drop i with that old 50.C. Smith. He would then thank me and say he thought I winged one of the birds, slowing it up for him to hit. I didn't believe him only it gave me something to tell my blood brother when the hunt was over.
I was 8 years old the outset time I didn't miss. Nosotros were sitting on a contend row on my grandmother's farm. There was an oak tree near xx yards northward of us, and a dove lit on one the branches. Taking careful aim, I fired, and the pigeon toppled over. I threw my gun down barrel first into the plowed earth, and ran to my bird as excited every bit if I had killed a charging grizzly. My grandfather cheered and bragged on me for a while, and then told me not to throw guns downwards into the dirt.
In his late 70s, my grandfather had pretty much given up hunting. One day, he called me over to his firm and asked me to hang on to the gun for him. He made sure to tell me he wasn't giving the gun to me, but that I could use it since he wasn't. I loved information technology. I felt like a man because my grandfather sure as hell was a homo, and that was his gun. I shot ducks with information technology in a beaver slough behind my parent'due south house; quail in the pine woods exterior of town; and clays with my friends. The gun came to my shoulder like it paid rent there, and dropped birds as well as any shotgun I had ever used.
Into his early 80s, my grandad started having health issues. The final time I saw him he was out of it, but he came around long enough to look me in the heart and tell me to keep that shotgun. He died a week subsequently.
My grandfather taught me a lot of things also shooting birds. He taught me how to play a mitt of poker, how to catch a catfish, how to drive through a muddy field, and lots of other things my mother would not care to know nigh. Above everything else though, my grandfather taught me what it is to honey someone. I know he loved me because he took the time to show me the things that were important to him, and to teach me to do those things properly.
A granddad's love is what I think about when I look at that old shotgun. —Jarrett
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vii. Weatherby Orion Over/Under 12 Gauge
This is my Weatherby Orion Grade III, 12-judge o/u shotgun. It has 30-inch barrels, a single selective inertia trigger, and auto ejectors. I employ it for skeet and some modest game. The wood is cute, so I try to take care of information technology and not abuse it. The long barrels give it slight front end heavy balance but information technology seems to adapt me well. This was made in Japan by SKB, the maker of other fine firearms. This is 1 of my favorite guns. —JHjimbo
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viii. MTs-108
Hither's a picture of the MTs-108 that followed me domicile later on I fell in love with her at a gunshow. The moment I picked it up from the other plain-Jane guns on a dealer's table, I was reminded of the line from Robert Ruark concerning an innocent young bird-domestic dog pup that had only scented his offset quail. I'm paraphrasing hither: He didn't know exactly what that magical olfactory property was, but he knew it had something to practice with his hereafter.
What's impossible to capture for a mass audience is the soul of the little affair. We've all known Russian weaponry to be clunky, stamped, mass-produced, killing machines. Not this little darling.
Nobody at the bear witness knew what the darn matter was. My exhibitor friend, whose table it was on, kindly allow me have it effectually the show to go opinions from other, more knowledgeable dealers. All scratched their heads in puzzlement. "Probably a European apprentice's masterwork" was the best guess. A few tiny stampings in Cyrillic were the only clues. The metal-to-metal fit was absolutely breathtaking, on par with a bespoke Brit double.
Yes, the checkering is not state-of the art perfection, but you lot'd only notice in strong light, with a jeweler'south loupe. Only griping almost the checkering is like being on a date with Cindy Crawford in a fine restaurant and fixating only on her beauty-mark.
On its first day afield in south Georgia, with sharp aureate sunlight streaming through the pines on a cold, crisply-cute November morning, with world-class dogs pointing wild quail, that damn gun tumbled every bird I shot at. —Dave
Other Vintage Shotguns
ix. Remington Model 58
This is my father's Remington Sportsman 58. I recovered the gun from his cranium after he passed abroad in January 2018. The gun had suffered water harm later on a tree broke through the roof during a storm years agone. The exterior of the barrel and receiver were badly rusted, and the finish on the woods was ruined. Even though I have never repaired a firearm before, I decided to endeavor refurbishing this gun. I took it completely apart (I left the trigger group intact), advisedly removed the rust, stripped and lightly sanded the stock and forearm, common cold-blued the steel and treated the woods with Dutch Oil. I also installed a left-manus safe button. I just put information technology dorsum together, and I am very pleased with how it turned out. The gun has a lot of prissy details, with cute engraving on the sides of the receiver, lovely wood with checkering, and a small metallic plate on the lesser of the stock grip that shows a bird dog with a duck in its mouth. The gun shoots well at the range, and I'm hoping to take some game with it this autumn in memory of my father. —Scott
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x. Remington 11-48
My blood brother won this Remington 11-48 in a long pheasant tailfeather contest well-nigh 60 years agone. A friend of his shot the bird and entered it under my brother'south name and told my brother what he did. In the end, my brother won the gun. He went in to pick it upwards and gave a made-up story nigh "a long cornfield shot" and got his picture in the paper.
About 2 years ago, my brother gave the gun to that friend'south son. Later, I was in a gun shop and saw it in a rack. I recognized information technology by one particular scar in the stock.
When my wife heard me tell my son about it, she said I should buy it. I went back a few days afterwards to get it, but it was gone. My 73rd birthday rolled effectually and the family celebrated at the pizza shop with gifts. Nosotros were about to leave when my son said "Pops, I went to the gun shop and asked about that sometime gun just all they had left was the magazine cap. I thought you'd like information technology as a keepsake."
Memories came flooding back when he handed information technology to me. So he said, "The rest is in my machine, I couldn't bring it in the eating place." So, the old gun now sits in my rack—a piece of firearms history, and at present our family history. —Loel
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11. Browning Auto 5 Sweet sixteen
My dad was an Air Force airplane pilot who flew B17s in WWII and B52s during the Cold War. He bought this Sweet 16 in 1965 at a base exchange. It has a 26-inch IC barrel and a 28-inch Modified barrel in a Browning fitted baggage example, and it toll him $164. He obviously lost interest in shotgunning soon after and put the gun away until he gave it to me in 1993. Several boxes of "all new" plastic shells came with information technology. I accept shot a few hundred rounds on clays and more recently used it on a released pheasant and chukar chase in Arkansas. Now that I am retired and take fourth dimension, I intend to go in some dove and quail hunts in Texas with the gun next autumn. The Sweet xvi does comport like a 20 and hit like a 12, and I am having no trouble finding affordable 16-gauge field loads at the local Academy or Walmart. —Jim
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12. Winchester Model 12 16-Approximate
My family is from the coal-mining land of western Kentucky. My granddad, his father, and almost anybody in family from that generation worked in the mines. This gun was given to my grandpa'south cousin during a miner's strike in the 1950s. Subsequently the strike was over, my granddad bought the gun from him. Best I tin tell, it started life as a plain-butt field gun and sometime subsequently it was sent of Simmons for a vent rib.
What a cute swinging gun! It balances perfectly at the breakdown indicate. I took information technology on dove hunt this weekend. Kickoff dove in my sights dropped dead. The 28-inch barrel is just the ticket. Not many birds came in my range, simply I managed 2. I will never let this gun go. It will be an heirloom in my family. —Jordan
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13. Remington 11-87
I recently shared how I came to inherit my dad'due south Remington 700 and took it on an elk hunt (didn't get one, but had a good time hunting with my uncles and Dad's one-time rifle). This is another of Dad's old guns, a Remington xi-87 that he bought most the same time he bought the rifle. Both had blued steel, walnut wood, and silver bolts. I think he had bought them as sort of a matching rifle/shotgun pair. This particular 11-87 was mainly used in South Dakota where we lived for several years. In that fourth dimension, it deemed for hundreds of pheasants, because, well, if you're a hunter living in South Dakota you're basically obligated to hunt pheasants. I have taken it out a couple of times myself and bagged a couple of birds with it, only hopefully side by side twelvemonth I will exist able to take it dorsum to South Dakota and hunt there. It just so happens I accept a cousin who married a farmer who has ground near where we used to alive. I recall I tin can easily observe a way to invite myself up for opening solar day side by side year. —Alex
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14. Winchester Model 88
This is my old Winchester Model 88 in .308. This rifle was made in 1956. My grandpa had a Model 88 carbine, and I always wanted one. This ane belonged to my begetter. I made a bargain with him as a young guy that if I bought a plow for the ATV, he would give me the rifle.
Dad killed his New Hampshire moose back in 1997 with this rifle, and I shot my get-go deer with it. Hopefully, my two-year-sometime son will do the same. I refinished the stock years ago and, being immature, I didn't care to rechecker it, and then it remains plain. I found an old 2-7 Redfield to put on it and complete the procedure of bringing dad's rifle back to its glory days (I hate new scopes on old rifles). The sling sports a balderdash moose in memory of Dad's dream hunt from long agone. It might non be fancy—the trigger pull is godawful—only it's my get-to for the final days of deer season. —Wyatt
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15. Sako Finnbear L61R
This is my grandpa's Sako Finnbear L61R, chambered in .270. Made in Republic of finland, probably around the early on 1960s, it has the Bofors Steel stamp on the barrel and a series number in the 12000s. Topped with an old Kahles 3X9 scope, the rifle nevertheless shoots better than I tin.
I inherited the burglarize in 2014, after my grandpa passed. The gun shows utilise only was well taken intendance of. It had not been shot in decades when I got information technology. But you wouldn't know that based on my first v group. A few clicks of elevation and everything was correct where it should be, and right how my grandpa left it.
I've thought about putting a new scope on the gun, simply I tin't bring myself to pause autonomously the setup my grandpa started putting together more than 50 years ago. Certain, information technology might price me a deer in low-low-cal conditions, but having my granddad with me on every hunt is worth it. —Stephen
16. Remington 7400
My dad gave me this .30/06 Remington 7400 a couple of years ago when he bought a new deer burglarize. Information technology has factory engraving and upgraded forest. This year, I topped it with an onetime El Paso Weaver K4 in super-low Leupold mounts. The super-low telescopic rings allow me to get a solid cheek weld. The sometime Weaver fogs occasionally, and it has a couple of fries in the rear lens, but I like the look of the old blued-steel telescopic—then I put up with it. This cadet was in hot pursuit of a yearling doe. I heard him grunting right before he cruised around the side of a knob I was watching. I was but 45 minutes into my deer flavor when I pulled the trigger. —Jake
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17. Remington 700
I don't know if yous could really phone call this rifle quondam, but to me it is. It is a Remington 700 BDL in .270 Winchester that was bought brand new in the early or mid-1980s for $350. What astonishes me about this rifle is that it will shoot anything, from 100-grain varmint bullets to 150-grain elk loads, into the same hole. Information technology's also the only "hunting" rifle I accept seen to shoot legitimate MOA groups at 300 yards. I wasn't able to shoot those groups, but my dad was. This was his just rifle for virtually 35 years. He took this rifle on our first elk hunt together last twelvemonth. It turned out to be our final hunt together. Nosotros lost dad in a tractor blow a couple of weeks after we returned habitation. So this coming fall I'll accept another tag in my pocket and dad's one-time rifle with me, and I'thousand hoping to get the bull he didn't get last year. —Alex
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18. Savage Model 99
This is my grandfather's Savage Model 99 in .300 Savage. Information technology was his chief deer rifle for over 4 decades. The gun has taken several Adirondack bucks, including a huge eight-pointer that weighed 202 pounds.
Fifty-fifty later historic period kept him out of the woods himself, my grandfather always loved to talk deer hunting and he insisted that his burglarize exist used during deer season every fall. The quondam rifle even so shoots very well and its peep sight is great in the big woods.
My Grandfather passed away last August at the age of xc. His .300 is a source of a lot of sentimental value inside my family. Although he as well owned a matching 99 in .250 Savage, but the .300 was his favorite. —Nigel
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19. Remington Model 24
My grandfather bought this rifle effectually 1925. I started carrying it in 1951 when I was ten years former equally a boy on the farm in Iowa. I became a fissure shot over the 5 years I hunted with that rifle. Cottontails, jackrabbits, gophers, pigeons, starling, and squirrels were off-white targets, although I only shot rabbit and squirrels during the hunting season.
I had to retire the burglarize virtually the same time my begetter passed away; modern loftier velocity ammunition was too much for it. I de-tasseled corn that summer to earn plenty coin ($47) to buy a Winchester Model 63 to replace information technology.
I still accept the Model 24 and I occasionally take it out and shoot it with standard velocity ammunition. Information technology is as authentic as my sometime eyes permit information technology to be now. In 1960, I bought a Browning ATD [SA-22] as a replacement for the Remington. It is the current model of John Moses Browning's genius as a gun designer. Information technology is everything my Model 24 is, but it does not take the grace, Schnabel forearm, and petite size of the Remington. —Bob
twenty. 1898 Springfield Krag Jørgensen
This Springfield 1898 in .thirty/40 Krag belonged to my married woman's grandfather who nicely sporterized it. The barrel has been cutting down and re-crowned with a Marble's No. iii ivory bead and a Lyman 1A peep sight dovetailed into the bolt plunger. This rifle was manufactured in 1901, and 111 years subsequently I was fortunate to kill 2 does while stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia. The bolt is glass polish and since it is in such nice, if not original, condition, I only hunt with it on perfectly dry out days. —Jon
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21. Remington Model Four
I purchased this .30/06 Model Four a few years ago at a pawn shop for $250. Information technology currently wears a Nikon 3x9x40 telescopic with BDC reticle. The well-used Monte Carlo stock helps to get a skillful cheek-weld when sighting through the telescopic. The barrel appears to have been cut to carbine length later information technology left the factory and makes the overall package first-class for all-day carry in the thick woods where I observe deer and pigs. It can hold near 2-inch, 100-k groups with Remington CoreLokt factory loads and used this combination a couple of years agone to take my largest pig to date. I also bagged some other pig and a small whitetail cadet within the side by side two hours with that same rifle. —Hog Hunter
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22. Winchester Model 94
This is a picture of my grandfather's Model 1894 .30/xxx Winchester. Really, it belongs to me now only my grandfather bought information technology used when he was nearly 19 years one-time and was his only big-game burglarize for his unabridged life. The old saying, "Beware of a man with one gun; he probably knows how to utilise it!" pretty well sums information technology upwards. He was famous in the little mining town in the northern Black Hills of Due south Dakota for shooting running deer through the neck. His friends called him Old Neck Shot. I'd love to know how many four-legged victims this rifle has accounted for, but I'm sure it's well over a hundred.
The rifle itself was manufactured in 1897 when my grandfather was merely a yr old. He bought information technology off an old retired professor at Spearfish Normal School, who was done hunting and needed the money more than than the gun. Actually, I should say guns, considering Granddad bought both this one and its consecutively numbered twin from the old boy. Soon after, he sold one and kept i—dang it! As you can see, information technology has the curved steel butt plate and fore-end cap of the really old model 94s. The back sight is a Lyman tang peep with the front being a flip-upwards with both a post (topped with an ivory bead) and the other a ball-on-a-post within a circle target sight. I don't call up Grandpa ever used the 2nd front sight; it's actually hard to apply. The long eye-relief aids accuracy and the weight-forward remainder of the 26-inch octagonal barrel helps hold the rifle steady. Despite long years of apply, it's in excellent working condition. The bore is pretty darn good because its historic period. Accuracy is but off-white with regular .thirty/30 ammo but improves considerably with Hornaday'south LEVERevolution. Naturally, it shows the marks of time and many hunts. Most of the bluish is gone from the receiver, and the rest is thinning. The stock shows its age only hasn't been abused. I've killed one doe mule deer with it and I'm hoping to take information technology afield the next time I chase the Black Hills.
So, while I'm the electric current flagman of Granddad'southward gun, it's actually his gun. When I pick it up, I tin can even so run into him walking downwardly a snowy forest road in November, with his cap, crimson and black checkered coat, greenish wool pants, and this rifle clutched in his correct hand while his grin telling usa that another deer has fallen to him and his rifle. —Harold
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23. Winchester Model 71
This Winchester Model 71 is a gun my father bought new while working in New York City in the 1950s. Thereafter he used it as his big-game rifle, primarily for whitetails. Due to its sound and kick, he named it Roaring Mag, subsequently the famous British mortar Roaring Meg (of the English Civil State of war). One twelvemonth he got lucky and flattened a large black bear with information technology, and that bear rug adorned our house for years. As a male child, I was occasionally allowed to accept the burglarize out of the example and curiosity at information technology, dreaming of the hunts to come.
This year, I finally took it afield again and fulfilled some of those adolescence dreams by shooting a prissy bear. The rifle has seen difficult use as the stock shows. Purists will scoff at the scope. Winchester fans volition recognize the Redfield M294 equally an elegant solution to the tiptop eject lever guns for guys similar my begetter—and at present myself—who have crumbling eyes. Anyhow, it was nice to hear Mag roar over again and merits some other bear carpet for our home. —Bernard
24. Husqvarna Model 640
Here is my Husqvarna Model 640 sporter, chambered for the 8x57JS Mauser cartridge, 1 of the offset—and greatest—smokeless powder rifle rounds ever adult. It is a purpose-built sporter made in 1944. It's one of the very last truthful dedicated sporters on the Mauser 1896 action. Husqvarna discontinued sporter production in 1944, and when they resumed sporting-rifle production in 1948 they built them on purchased FN-made M98 activeness.
This rifle isn't an ex-military weapon; though it does accept a stripper clip slot in the receiver bridge, it lacks the "pollex cutting" in the left receiver rails typical of war machine rifles. The barrel is not stepped, and the rear sight is a single fixed open leaf. The stock is a Schnabel-tipped piece of European beechwood with modest checkering but no other ornamentation beyond a plastic grip cap. It's a plain-vanilla working rifle intended for the domestic market. (The European consign market was pretty dismal in 1944!) My only changes were the additions of a recoil pad and a Burris Timberline 4×xx scope in a detachable mountain.
While the M98 was far more popular and successful for sporting use, it'south a footling too porky for a lite hunting rifle. The M96, on the other mitt, is sleek and graceful, trimmer and meliorate balanced, and makes up into a wonderful lightweight sporter. Commercially made examples of sporting 1896s aren't often seen, more'southward the pity. The M96 is less popular with Americans considering of its cock-on-closing bolt, only this design allows a simpler, lighter, and slimmer bolt design.
This little rifle has done me proud in the years I've owned information technology. I took it to Namibia in 2010, where I shot a huge Livingstone eland, a big zebra, a springbok, an impala, two warthogs, a birdie, and a few blackness-backed jackals. In the U.S. it has taken several whitetails and a feral hog. I now use it as a "culling" rifle for deer taken on kill permits.
That the 8x57JS Mauser round has faded abroad for sporting use in the U.Southward.A. is unfortunate, because it's every bit effective and efficient a medium-bore hunting caliber as could exist plant. American ammunition companies deliberately under-load it to the level of the .30/40 Krag. Norma loads information technology to its full potential: 196 grain bullets with a muzzle velocity of 2526 FPS and 2776 F-P of energy. That is comparable to the .308 and .30/06. —New River Valley Outdoorsman
Foreign and Truly Rare Guns
25. A. Dickore Cape Gun
As close as we can effigy, this rare gun has been in our family for 150 years. It was taken W to Arizona in a covered wagon, and brought back when Indians burned down the homestead. In Geissen is inscribed on the left side and A. Dickore on the right. The hammers are fish with solid gold eyes. It is beautifully engraved all over with a cougar, deer, rabbit, and hunter. The right barrel is rifled and the left is smooth diameter. —Gary
26. The Sharpshooter "Fly Gun"
This gun is undoubtedly a stretch for this website, but I hope yous'll bear with me. This is the Sharpshooter fly gun. Looking at the patent dates and the font style of the instructions, I would say this was manufactured former in the late 1930s in Rawlins, Wyoming. It was given to me by a friend who I met while we were both living in Rawlins. He plant information technology at a flea market place in Seattle. The whole kit comprises two boxes: The showtime contains the gun itself with a fix of instructions. The second box has some bakelite spinning targets, rubber bands, tubes of No. 6 shot, and a device to load the shot into the gun. To fire this wicked weapon, you load some shot into the tubular mag, braze the safe band, and pull back the carrier until the sear catches. One No. 6 shot will drop into the carrier. When the trigger is pulled, the rubber band flings the carrier forward, launching the single shot out of the gun. According to the instructions, "The SHARPSHOOTER is SURPRISINGLY ACCURATE. It is capable of hitting flies consistently upwards to six or eight feet." Now I haven't been able to reach such accuracy, but when I figured out where it was hitting I killed a few by getting a foot or two from them. Amazingly, the rear sight is adaptable for windage and height. So, if y'all take some fourth dimension, and flies to kill, and don't mind littering your abode with atomic number 82 shot, this is your gun of selection. A good flyswatter is more efficient, but what the heck, this classic, rare gun is fun and harmless—even if yous hit someone in the middle (supposedly). —Harold S.
27. Smith & Wesson Direct Line Target Pistol
What, at first glance looks like a trim semi-auto pistol is really my Smith & Wesson Straight Line target pistol. Instead of making a top-break based on revolver frames, like the first 3 models, Smith & Wesson decided to practise something innovative. In place of a hammer revolving around a pin, this pistol has an in-line hand cocked striker. The designers thought that an in-line striker would eliminate the downwards push on the butt that comes from a pivoting hammer. Sales were skilful at first, but information technology was shortly discovered that the new pattern had petty reward over the old design, and in 1929 the Depression began. Sales dropped off and but 1,870 were fabricated.
To load this puppy, first pull the striker back to "one-half-cock," then grab the stock with your correct hand and the barrel with your left. Push the button on the left side to the right with your left thumb, and then pivot the barrel counterclockwise. A spent example will then be extracted but not ejected. After plucking out the empty out, you reload and pivot the barrel back into battery. Later on pointing the pistol in a safe direction, pull the striker all the way back and yous're gear up to burn down. How does it shoot? Pretty adept, but information technology'due south a little calorie-free for a target pistol. Although this pistol was certainly non a financial success, the automobile work and finish are out of this world, and it's probably a pretty rare gun nowadays. Fortunately, this one came equally-is. If information technology had the metal case, paperwork, and tools, information technology would take toll an extra $1,000. —Harold S.
28. Stevens Favorite
Here is my Stevens Favorite Model 1894 "rook burglarize." It was in decent, shootable shape when I bought it, but I wanted something special. I had it refinished, added an original Stevens folding tang sight to match the manufactory's "Beach's Patent" folding forepart sight, and fitted upward a case for it.
This rare gun is chambered for the now discontinued .32 Rimfire. It's a great pity that this cartridge is no longer manufactured because it's an outstanding pocket-size game round, and at that place are many high-grade rifles like mine languishing for want of ammunition. Some people have converted these piddling rifles to shoot .32 S&W Long; a very foolish matter to do, considering the Favorite is a weak action and hot handloads will stress it beyond its limits. Yet, a company in France makes reloadable .32 Rimfire cases. I bought ane of their kits and was also able to track downwards a few boxes of manufacturing plant ammunition, loaded past CBC in the 1970s. Although Stevens made and sold the Favorite mostly in the U.S., they also did export merchandise in the U.G. through one Joseph Leeson, a well-known gunsmith and dealer. Leeson imported the Favorite in classic rook burglarize calibers. —Tom
29. Stevens 40 ½ Pocket Rifle
This is my Stevens twoscore 1/2 Vernier New Model Pocket Burglarize in .25 rimfire. My grandfather gave it to me a couple weeks after my 13th birthday with atmospheric condition: He told me his grandfather had given it to him, and I was to give it to a grandson anytime. Once I turned thirty, or if something were to happen to my dad and nosotros needed the money, then I could sell it. Grandpa passed of an unexpected heart attack a couple weeks later, the solar day before the deer opener.
It turns out he fibbed. My dad's older blood brother was a kid when he constitute the rifle in the rafters of an sometime milk house on the belongings they'd bought. The gun was probably used for pest control in the barn.
I don't know for sure what my grandfather's reasoning was, but evidently he had told folks for years he wanted me to take this rifle. He had no will when he died and it took years to settle his estate. He had eight kids and over 30 grandkids. There'south no way I'd accept ended upwards with such a rare gun if he hadn't given it to me when he did.
I shot it a few times just subsequently he died, but ammo is hard to find, pricey, and non reloadable. I accept a few boxes left, waiting for the next possessor in line. —Fitch 270
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