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So, what is your oldest gun? 50? 75? 100+ years old?
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Tue, March 4, 2008 - 8:16 PMI have an old gun in an obsolete caliber... family history says it was used by one of my mexican ancestors at the battle of the alamo. I'm told it's a 'tercero' or a 'tercerlo'.... something. Looks kinda like a baker musket. Then I have a carcano, I have no idea what year. It's really long, with a finely calibrated really long rear tang sight. I don't know what caliber it is, but I learned as a little kid that a bottle rocket stripped of it's stick, fits just perfectly. light it, close the breech, and time your trigger pull so that it looks like you're shooting an old black powder gun....
and a mauser.... just like everyone else who has ever heard of gun ownership. it's a yugo, 1943 on german tooling, but the german markings have been over-written with the yugo ones. all numbers match except the bolt, which is about as good as none of the numbers matching. It's my plinker. -
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Wed, March 5, 2008 - 7:36 AMi have a 30/40 krag i need a bolt for it though. i keep hoping it will show up in my parents house or barn my grand dad hid it for safety like 40 years ago
and i have a 1894 marlin 30-30 with a 1/3 octagon barrel
still shots great but heavy
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Wed, March 5, 2008 - 11:18 PMI have a few gun's that I have no idea how old they are. I have an old russian bolt gun that my dad picked up off a dead viet cong. It look's shootable but I've never shot it. I have a steven's double barrell .410, 2 trigger's, model 3110, I think. And a single shot bolt action springfield model 18 12 gauge. Maybe I need to google them and try to find something out. -
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Thu, March 6, 2008 - 7:53 AMI have an long Russian Mosin-Nagant,I can't remember the date stamping it could be 1908 but it's been awhile since I looked at it. -
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Thu, March 6, 2008 - 9:06 AMOh yea I also have Christopher Columbus's machine gun. He signed it and everything. 1491a.d. -
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Thu, March 6, 2008 - 3:31 PMThe Mosin Nagant was a 1908 had to go look after the last posting. -
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Thu, March 6, 2008 - 4:51 PMI guess my oldest would be my 10.4mm Vetterli. If you look up the Vetterli you'll see that it has the distinction of being the first magazine fed rifle to be adopted by any major military force (ca1864ish). Mine actually predates that, and is the single shot version before they offered the tubular magazine. It is not the earliest rimfire, but the later centerfire version. Made in Torino Italy and carried by Spanish Mounted Border Patrol, my rifle was the European equivelent of the Sharps. I even have the bayonet and the cool sliding dust cover that completely covers the bolt.
It would be worth a lot, except that American gun collectors are a snobbish lot. They'll pay top prices for old American weapons, but could care less about many early European guns. Odd. -
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Thu, March 6, 2008 - 5:06 PMcan you even get bullets for it anymore? 10.4 sounds like a pretty fierce bullet, for some reason. I'd be interested to see pics, Adam. -
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Fri, March 7, 2008 - 9:24 PMI think they still make 10.4 ammo. I hear people saying 10.4 on the cb alot. lol
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Fri, March 7, 2008 - 4:54 PM*************Oh yea I also have Christopher Columbus's machine gun. He signed it and everything. 1491a.d.**********
HA~!! I have St Brendan's -
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Fri, March 7, 2008 - 9:26 PMI have the Glock that God made for Adam. ha ha top that one. -
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Fri, March 7, 2008 - 9:28 PMHe should have used it to shoot that damn snake that told them to eat the apple. lol
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Sat, March 8, 2008 - 10:23 PMMy oldest gun is a Browning Buckmark I bought in Oct. of '07.
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Mon, March 10, 2008 - 1:45 PMNot mine (My oldest is a 10-22 from '06...2006) but I just talked my ex-mother in law into letting me and my son shoot her beautiful 20 gauge Winchester Model 21 built around 1940. It looked like new and shot great (my first time with a shotgun, but not my last ;-) They also have a Model 12 , a Smith and Wesson Military/Police .38 special and a Winchester 1894 30-30 from the '50's. All sitting unfired for at least the last thirty years or so. I had no idea how much the Model 21 was worth when we were going to shoot it, and when the guy at the gun store (who it turned out was an old friend that I hadn't seen in twenty years) told me how much they sold for, I got a bit nervous about letting my 11 year old and I blast away with the thing! Luckily neither of us dropped it or scratched it, and I rekindled Grandma's love of shooting (she took a bear and seals as a child) and let her shoot my GP100. Now we all want to start skeet shooting... -
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Mon, March 10, 2008 - 5:11 PMSafe to say that this tribe's demographic is more defensive shooters, and less collectors. Interesting to know. -
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Mon, March 10, 2008 - 6:01 PMI would probably more fit into the 'for fun' shooter? although I guess anyone who is any kind of shooter can become a defensive shooter if need be. I'm not a hunter or collector or competetive shooter if that's what ya mean. But the way I appreciate firarms, it's only a matter of time and another tax bracket, and I will start collecting. Hunting? I will try for curiosity's sake and experience. Competition holds no lure for me at all.
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Wed, June 18, 2008 - 8:19 PM30 40 Krag, bein my oldest cartrige gun, spanish mauser 1908, .303 enfield 1917. and a bunch of "newer stuff" from 1938-1950, I love old bolt actions and Mausers gimme a chubby -
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Fri, June 20, 2008 - 12:04 PMI kinda lean in the direction that that Mauser K98 was the best looking rifle of the war. I mean, yes the Garand is a great american icon, but just going off of aesthetics and function of design, I think the mauser takes first prize. I wish I could enjoy a mosin more, especially at their low prices, but they're just so damn ugly. And rimmed cartridges on a bolt crank? Plus you need to outsource to a finnish war veteran if you ever want to disassemble that mosin bolt. And the safety mechanism is really just for veterans to make fun of the new guy who tries to use it.
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Fri, March 14, 2008 - 2:35 PM1936 Mossberg .22 semi automatic. Peep sights and no serials. ;-)
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Fri, March 21, 2008 - 11:20 AMa 1923 manufacture Belgian 8mm Mauser -
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Sun, June 22, 2008 - 5:54 PMGreg wrote "I love old bolt actions and Mausers gimme a chubby"
I have 3 Mausers and a Ruger built on the Mauser design. Paul Mauser was a friggin genius. 120 years later and we are still building rifles around his design. I have always loved my Spanish Mauser in 7x57. Smooth shooter, old enough to mail without an FFL, easy to carry all day, and the smallest caliber rifle to ever be documented to have killed elephants in the wild (in the hands of a professional hunter.) -
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Sun, June 22, 2008 - 8:29 PMI have a spanish mauser, rebored to a .308, you know the ones that like to blow up when you shoot them with modern ammo. but its a beautiful gun with matching numbers and no import mark, so i may try reloading some weak loads for it just to try it out
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