cleanin guns-good tales.
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03/05/19 01:15 PM
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While its nasty out i've been goin through and givin everything a yearly cleanin.amazed how a 100 dollar gun with family history can seem so much more valuable than an expensive one with little to no history.i'm a blessed man to still have them all here.
Last edited by pcr2; 03/08/19 10:37 AM.
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03/05/19 02:24 PM
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Ryan McLeod
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You’re right. My late great grandfathers model 94 trapper and my late grandpas 303 are my favourites. They both function perfectly yet. I was just planning to clean my M2 today. We will be hunting birds before long.
If you take care of the land the land will take care of you
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03/05/19 02:29 PM
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i swear Hoppes is better than Viagra.
when posted i was cleanin a Mossberg bolt 410 i watched grampa miss a limb and take out the tv antenna.limb was interupting the signal and he said to me,come here and i'll show you the easy way to fix that.missed the limb and destroyed that old aluminum tenner.a story my boys have heard from more than me and hopefully they tell their children the tale.
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03/06/19 03:16 PM
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Cathouse Jim
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I have liked guns since I was a young boy. I'm pretty sure I was only eleven upon getting my first rifle. Made a gunrack in Junior high with a cubby to organize the collection and boxes of ammo. I have my Dad's old hunting rifle as well as my wife's Dads hunting rifle and her Grandfathers. When my son comes home on Leave he likes to get them out and clean them with such precise care it amazes me. That is his favorite way to decompress and spend time with me - as all of those guns have stories, many are not my original stories but I pass them as told by the fine men that shared them with me.
"I've reached nearly fifty four years of age with my system."
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03/06/19 03:50 PM
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Jim,i can relate to your son.sometimes i have to do it to remember how lucky i am not how bad i've got it.i can smell Hoppes and it brings me back to dad and i sittin in the den after a long day hunting.at 50 i'm the elder in the family and sometimes it helps a lot.
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03/08/19 08:27 AM
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Randy Wieland
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Pretty dang hard to put a "value" to memories. My mother passed away in January, and I have one of her cheap Eagle Claw rods sitting here in my home office. Rods worth about $.25 at a garage sale, but the flood of memories I have of her out fishing with me is priceless
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03/08/19 10:18 AM
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Cathouse Jim
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330-Trapper, my son and I have this policy- What is mine is his and what is his is mine. We both love guns from lever actions to black rifles and everything in between.
"I've reached nearly fifty four years of age with my system."
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03/08/19 10:21 AM
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here they are not my guns,they are our guns and we are blessed to have a lot of family history in those cabinets.
how about some more family gun stories.some good stuff here.
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03/08/19 02:50 PM
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here they are not my guns,they are our guns and we are blessed to have a lot of family history in those cabinets.
how about some more family gun stories.some good stuff here. When I was 10 or 11 my family lived on a farm We had an old side by side double barrel .It had two triggers an often if you where not careful when you shot one barrel if the other hammer was cocked the recoil would cause the other barrel to go off When we had public sale and moved from the farm I never saw it again . About 45 years later one of my cousins gave me a copy of an old picture with my great grand father and several of my grand fathers brother's all holding guns .Shortly after that one of my brother in laws said to me one day that someone he knew told him he had bought my grand father double barrel shotgun at his public sale .And he said he would sell it back to him for the price he paid when he purchased it as that sale.So the sale was made and my brother in law told me I could have the gun since it was my grand fathers .When I seen it I knew right away it was the same shotgun from our days on the farm and it was the gun my great grandfather was holding on the picture my cousin gave me . So about 100 years after the picture was taken and 50 years after my grand fathers estate sold the double barrel it is back in our possession .We all own it and it will not be for sale anytime soon
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