What Gun Is At The Back Of Your Safe And Why?

[togor]

Went through the safe doing a periodic oiling of the bores. Got me wondering how things get ordered as they do. In my case it's a CMP Collector Grade from 2005, with a CMP datasheet in the stock listing it as an all original post-war SA. Issued but very very low miles, as was the case with some of those Greek returns. Not the most valuable gun in the collection but I have other Garands if I want to futz with one, so it sits at the back.

[Roadkingtrax]

I have an M1D that I dont shoot very much and just a couple SRS 1903s that live in the dark recesses of the safe. It's not a permanent prison, they get rotated every once in a while.

[JimF]

Two M1’s that see very little use.
Type 1 NM = Ding free stock, very low “round count”. (That’s it, in my avatar)
August, 1941, LL = very low “round count”, but I do replace the original, round fire pin when it goes to the range.

[bruce]

Back of the cabinet ... little use? Unfortunately ... most. I have recently been sent to a new pastoral appointment. The nearest rifle range where I can do any serious shooting is at least two hours away. My old range is 3 1/2 hours away. I just do not have an entire day that I can devote to being away from the office/church. End up taking a couple of half days off a week. So, my beloved 03 and 03-A3 rifles are not getting hardly any use. My M-1's are not getting any use. My handguns are only occasionally getting used simply because at least there is a commercial range available, ... not a full 25 yd. range ... more like 20 yd., but at least a place where I can shoot my pistols. I get to do some shooting when I'm coming back from a hospital visit. I do remember a time not so many years ago when I could spend most of a day at the range ... shoot several rifles ... have a really good time. Oh well. Sincerely. bruce.

[JB White]

In the back of which safe? :)

Guns which I fired once or twice and stored are:

Winchester Pattern 14 with volley sights and no WRS markings.
LEC/Royal Irish Constabulary carbine.
M1 Intl' Harvester which was gifted to me by a WW2 Pacific vet turned history teacher. I had the utmost respect for that man.
16g Iver Johnson shotgun I inherited from the uncle who taught me hunting and fishing as a lad.
One of my Martini Henry's I bought after cashing in a misplaced US savings bond from 1959. Sort of a souvenir of a bonding moment when my Dad took me to see the movie Zulu.
There is a 1915 Stevens .22 that I don't remember where it came from. Not at the moment anyway. Forgot I even had it until this thread was started!

[clintonhater]

In the back of which safe?

That's what I say--I don't have one.

[bdm]

I have a 1941 Johnson and a M1D in the back of my safe never shoot them

[Herschel]

In the back of my safe is M1NM (type 1) that I bought new at Camp Perry in 1958. I know how it would shoot in 1959 when I used it to fire in the 1959 National Matches.
Next to it is an M1D I bought through the DCM. It is unfired since I bought it. I consider them investments so don't need to shoot them.

[Art]

The gun(s) at the back of my safe are the ones that get shot the least which are (right now) my Russian SKS 45, it's companion Russian Model 44 Carbine, my beautiful Remington 700 Classic in .250 Savage and my Yugoslav M48 Mauser. I like all of them a lot, but, as I said, they just get shot the least.

In the front of my safe are my '03s, my M1, my AK clone and my No4 Mk 2. Next back are my old Harrington and Richardson Pioneer .22 and my Mossberg M44 US. These are the long guns that get the most use.

[p246]

Back of my safe M95 Carbine and No 5 Mark 1, and a 1915Lithgow. None I shoot often.

[tmark]

I rotate mine when I miss seeing and handling them all.

[PWC]

Win model 1886 in 45-90. During the depression my dad traded 10 gal of gas for it. Barrel is smothbore. Back then when a rifle barrel was 'shot' they drilled it out and it became a 410 shotgun. Stock had been shortened before he got it and it is missing internal parts and is unshootable. Infact, I have half of the broken carrier on my monitor stand. Once upon a time I wanted to fix it up and shoot it....now too much time has gone by and parts are hi $$$. I don't have time to shoot what I have.

[m1ashooter]

Replica Brown Bess Musket sits in the back because of the coast of black powder and the time to clean it.

[Major Tom]

A M1884 Trapdoor rifle in pristine condition that I bought from Al Frasca a few years ago. Bluing and case color is excellent as well as the bore. Very minor nicks in wood. At the time, I also bought from Al an original bayonet with scabbard and original sling. I have add a period correct ammo pouch and tools.

[jmm03]

one day i'll find some 11.7mm brass for my danish rolling block and liberate it from the dark recesses, at least it has some company with the model 97 Winchester...

[dryheat]

The one's that shoot or look the best. I only take them out on special occasions. The Model 1917 is a work horse and I just grab it all most everytime. Garands come and go so they get test fired. Once in a while I think, I've got this awesome rifle, go out and shoot it. So I do.

[JohnPeeff]

4-41 Lend Lease Garand and 1926NM Springfield

[snakehunter]

Went through the safe doing a periodic oiling of the bores. Got me wondering how things get ordered as they do. In my case it's a CMP Collector Grade from 2005, with a CMP datasheet in the stock listing it as an all original post-war SA. Issued but very very low miles, as was the case with some of those Greek returns. Not the most valuable gun in the collection but I have other Garands if I want to futz with one, so it sits at the back.

12 ga caplock muzzle loader. No identifiers at all. It's still shootable but I don't because it's a family heirloom that I've promised to my brother when I'm gone.

[Duane Hansen]

I've got my first gun from when l was 9 years old in 1959, a Daisy BB gun. lt' a Carbine and l still have the leather lace up butt pad for it too. Then my first .22 which is a Stevens "Favorite" which my Dad gave we when l turned 11 years old. I don't get out and shoot them because they are mostly just keep sakes now.

[dryheat]

I've got my first gun from when l was 9 years old in 1959, a Daisy BB gun. lt' a Carbine and l still have the leather lace up butt pad for it too. Then my first .22 which is a Stevens "Favorite" which my Dad gave we when l turned 11 years old. I don't get out and shoot them because they are mostly just keep sakes now.

We should all be so lucky as to have valuable pieces like that. When my folks left Alaska all the guns got sold at the yard sale. I was in the Navy at the time. My comics and tapes all disappeared too. My first gun was a Daisy BB. I put a "sling" on it with hose clamps, a real leather sling. I sank a lot of "battleships" down at the slough. I would never think to break glass out in the field these days. These days I pick up other peoples trash.

[free1954]

quite a few never see the range anymore. when I broke a nearly irreplaceable part last year, I quit shooting anything over 100 years old.

[blackhawknj]

Most of them. Like coins or stamps, many of us buy them just to have them.

[free1954]

Most of them. Like coins or stamps, many of us buy them just to have them.




indeed sir. after seeing ZULU, I lusted after a martini henry. and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT sent me out in search of a ww1 german mauser with roller coaster sights and butcher blade bayonet

[Jay Johnson]

In the back, a couple M1 Garands because two of them have to be at the end of the rows; a M1903A3 for the same reason as the M1’s; a first year production Remington 760 Gamemaster pump action rifle in .30-06 that was my Grandfather’s retirement gift from his buddies at the Langendorf bakery, there’s an engraved medallion on the bottom of the grip dated 1956, I don’t shoot it because it’s not very accurate; an Anschutz 54 match rifle that belonged to a good friend’s father who shot on the UC Berkeley rifle team in the early 1960’s, it’s a beastly heavy rifle, I don’t know why I don’t shoot it, did I mention what a beast it is...; a stainless Ruger Mini 14 w/a folding stock and flash suppressor, it’s a registered A-Salt Weapon with the State of Commiefornia so it’s hiding out in the back of the crowd, outta sight; and lastly an Ithaca 12ga. SxS that belonged to my Great Grandfather, it’s a little long in the tooth, but still, Great Grandpa’s gun!