Anyone else have a lifelong shotgun?

Well according to my wife I am not allowed to sell guns. So that makes my Rem 1100 left hand 12 guage my life time shotgun.

My Father has a 1100 right hand, and bought a 10 guage side by side. I have mentioned to my father he is not allowed to sell them to anyone else.

These stories make me glad, and I will acquire for my daughters their own as time passes.
:D

Merry Christmas!

Gfrey
 
In 1955 my father won a 12ga. plain jane Rem 870 in a duck calling contest. It had a plain barrel, 28" with full choke. Four or five years later, he inherited a Browning Auto-5 when his father died. No farm boy in arkansas could imagine that a finer gun was made than a browning auto-5. The 870 was handed down to me when I started hunting and helping my father guide duck hunters as the "dog boy". I used this 870 to kill everything legal to hunt in that state for several years. I got snow in the muzzle without knowing it, fired it off at a flaring duck and would up with a 23" barrel. My father took it to a smith who stuck a cutt's compensator on the end. When finished, the barrel was 24" long with the cutts and a full choke tube. I still hunt and shoot a round of skeet every now and then with it. The additional weight of the cutt's and that particular length barrel seem just perfect to me for quick pointing and smooth swing.

I like the 870 so well and have used one so much that i have acquired many more in different configurations and guages, and a couple of 760/7600 Remington Rifles. The use and functioin of these slide actions are so famaliar that I am not conscious of shucking the slide handle when shooting. I have owned some nice and expensive guns but non shoot better than the 870 that I got from my father. I intend to keep shooting this gun until my grandson is ready to shoot it. I don't know how many rounds its fired, but I've worn out a MEC 600 and a MEC Grabber loading for it. I wonder about those new Dillon loaders. Is it kosher to have a reloading press that costs 20 times what your gun did when it was new?


Jay
 
It's probably Kosher, but is it a good idea? If I was loading that many, I might want a Spolar.

And, you may possibly be the only respondent on this BB that has more 870s or been using them longer than I. Congrats!
 
Yeah,

A Remington 1100 LT 20 guage ( LT=youth/ladies model).

I bought it with my own money when I was 12 years old when I got my first job.

I have had it 24 years now, and will NEVER sell it. I still shoot it better than my newer 11-87 Premier 12 guage. It will be in my family long after I'm gone:)
 
LOL...Damn...Just thinkin' about all the 410 I blew after I got mine for Christmas a few years back...brings tears to my eyes and I get a "flashback" strawberry on my right shoulder just thinkin' about it!!! I gave it to my 9 YO last year after he passed his hunter safety course...

The very best shotgun I ever shot, was an old 20 gauge that was brand new when my Godfather got it...Remington Model 58 that I took a dove at a counted 78 paces with...28" Modified...If you couldn't hit with that one...It couldn't BE HIT!

Cool thread...My best to the instigator! ;)
 
Well, let's see here. I've got my Grandfathers 12ga. Stevens 311, a Stevens Farorite 22 rifle that belonged to a great uncle, and a 20ga. Ithica 37 that was the last shotgun my father owned.
None of these guns will ever be for sale of course.

I do wish though that I had the .410 Winchester M42 that dad traded for the Ithica and an over/under(22/.410) Savage/Stevens M24. The M24 was my first shotgun and less than 2 years later I inherited the Ithica. My dad was an amazing shot with the little .410 pumpgun, he always said that the little gun wouldn't shoot far so he had to shoot quick, and did. I saw him take a double on close flushing pheasants, both of them hit the ground dead inside 20 yards. I bought a Browning M42 when they came out about 10 years back, the first game I bagged was a pheasant , sure wish dad could have seen it.

Great thread

Don in Ohio
 
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