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.

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.

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.

brings back memories when I clean grandpas model 99 250-3000. This gun will be passed down when I get older.

pcr, I have an old 38 break top revolver (cant recall the brand) my Great great grandfather had bought to kill a fella with. My Dad had told me the story best he could remember of how his Great grandpa had bought the gun to kill a man, but the man in question had ended up in jail before he could kill him.
Kylee was working on a school history project this past year and found an old news article. The article talked about a robber that used my Great great grandmother as an alibi and told how they had spent the weekend together and he couldn't have been the robber. The story all made sense after reading this article. The little revolver isn't worth $100 if it was sold, but it is priceless to us.

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.

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.

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

I was at a Pheasants Forever conference several years ago .One speaker started out his part of the presentation by ask "Who was the MVP of the most recent football season" .Some knew and some did not . Than he ask "Who had won Entertainer of the Year of some Country Music Awards program" .Some knew and some did not . His third question was "How many remember who was the first person to take them hunting" . Everyone in the group raised their hand .What everyone in this thread is saying is they have memories from events that happened a long time ago .Things that made a life long impression on them. Those of us that have been at the pursuit of hunting and trapping for many years can be helping to create the same kind of memories of young kids today . I say this mainly as a reminder to myself . We need to look for ways to get kids of all ages involved in what we have enjoyed most of our lives

My Dad getting ready for Hunting trips made a big impression on me...even before I could hunt. But he sold guns sometimes to buy other items and that made even more of an impression. He sold my Grandfathers model 100 Winchester .308 that would have been mine someday. To this day If I aquire one it stays with me. My kids have asked about certain ones to Receive someday.

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.

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.

I have possession of my Dads Winchester mod94. Dad got it new for his 16th birthday in 1955. I tried to buy it from him and he said I didn't need all his guns, after telling him I wanted to give it to my son Dad told me it was already his he just wouldn't know it until he was old enough to take care of it. Dad told about having to get it back from the GW once and didn't want to do it again, one of my brothers got it taken away. I told Dad he would have to tell the story to AJ, but Dad told me my brother would have to tell the story. I didn't think much about it at the time, but the fallowing spring we put Dad in the ground. AJ was Dads little buddy for the first two years of his life so it will be fitting to pass the rifle on.

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