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

[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!