Firearms That were Willed To You

Nobody's never left me nuthin :mad:

  • I -bought- my (maternal) Grandfather's Security-Six from him.
  • Somebody stole all my Dad's guns about 8 years ago except for the Colt police positive his father carried. (I suppose I might inherit that someday).
  • One Aunt "turned in" all of my Uncle's guns when he died and to the best of my knowledge they were all "destroyed" (easily $50,000 worth of guns and she just handed them all in to the police because she didn't want them around).
  • Another Uncle's guns were sold at an estate auction that nobody even told me was happening until it was too late for me to participate.

(sorry, I guess this is still sort of a sore subject with me).
 
3 family heirlooms

1) Marlin 60 that was a gift from my grandfather (way prior to his death)
2) H&R .410 that was a gift from my grandfather (way prior to his death)
3) Remington 31 12 gauge that was willed to me by the same grandfather.
 
Not "willed" per se' but my dad gave me his S&W Model 10-7 when he could no longer use it before he died. A good friend knew I wanted the 9mm WinMag AutoMag I sold him when I was a dealer should he ever get rid of it. When he was suddenly taken by a brain tumor, I was able to buy it from his estate for what I charged him for it years prior. I also treasure a Titan II .380 of his he left with me.

Dad's Model 10-7 in .38spl
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Sam's AutoMag in 9mm Magnum (9x29)
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Sam's Titian II in .380
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RIP guys...
 
I got my dad's Colt National Match 1911 back in January, he bought it for $125 back in 1964. I also got his dad's and stepdad's guns, a Sterling .380 and some sort of Spanish .25 pocket pistol. Neither of those are anything to write home about, but I'm not going to get rid of them. They are the only things I have to remember my grandfather and stepgrandfather by.
 
Ze is there a reason that your family doesn't want you to have guns?
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Heh, more like a family full of well-programmed people who couldn't understand why anyone would have "those things" around and couldn't even conceive that anyone else in the family might want them. :mad:
 
Grandfather's:
Winchester 190 .22 lr
Remington Sportsman Model 58 16 Gauge

Father in Law's:
1926 Enfield MK VI in .455 Webley
KAR 98 battlefield pick up
 
My Dad willed me his Ithaca 37 12 gauge, his Remington 700 .243, his Remington 521T, two 1903A3 Smith Coronas (one heavily modified into a sporting rifle configuration), his East German Makarov, and a couple of other guns when he passed in 2007.
 
A family friend gave me a C96 that belong to his uncle. The story is that the uncle, a Cap't with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, got it from a dead German sargent at the Battle of Vimy Ridge ( WWI - April 1917). It's hard to prove but the serial numbers of the gun show it to fit that timeline. There is also a date of 1917 stamped on the well worn leather harness. I sent away for and received the public records for the Cap't and they show his unit was involved in the battle at Vimy and that he was with the unit at that time. This does not prove that the gun in fact came into his possession the way the story goes but it does all fit and makes the story entirely plausible.


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Dad died in 2003, leaving me....

• a 1975 era Winchester Model 94 in .30-30
• a Charter Arms .38 Sp Undercover revolver
• A J.C. Higgins (Sears) 20 guage bolt action shotgun
• A J.C. Higgins (Sears) 12 guage bolt action shotgun
 
My Grandfather left me his 1968 Ruger Single Six. First handgun I ever shot. A couple of months ago I helped my Oldest Grandson first his first handgun with it.
 
My sister was my Dad's executrix. She gave her kids my Dad's firearms. :(

In a great piece of Karma, though, I had a good friend who passed a few years later. He and I shot a lot, and I had admired a custom rifle of his. When he passed, none of his kids wanted it, so his widow gave it to me. It's a modified Martini Cadet that shoots a weird wildcat--.357mag pistol brass necked down to .17. A short, fat .17 mag. It was a purpose-built "whistle pig" gun. I love it. And it has dis-assembled many a whistle pig under my hands.
 
It wasn't willed to me but my mother gave me dad's Model 1873 Winchester when dad had to go into a nursing home. It was made in 1891. Dad paid $5 for it. But that was about 1930 and was nearly a weeks pay for him at the time.

Mom and Dad are both gone now so it means a lot to me.
 
A small collection of long guns including several Winchesters (97, 92[.25-20], 90 [.22 WRF], 94 Commemorative (.30-30), a couple of Remington 870's, etc.

My grandpa's 97 makes me regret trading my dad's 97. No blueing but no rust. They carried their 97's when teaching me how to hunt waterfowl over 50 years ago. I carried a single shot 410 (with which I got my first Canvasback drake).
 
In the will is a bummer as it makes them part of probate, ID, taxes, etc. Fortunately or maybe knowingly Dad left them out. Many date between the Civil War and 1900, there's about half a dozen from 1900 to WWII.

snow dog, nice broomhandle!
 
When Dad died (after a long illness), the boys had already decided (with Dad's agreement) who would get what, so there would be no fighting about it as had happened when his dad died.

I got Grandpa's 1903 .32 Colt and Dad's .45 convertible Blackhawk. There was a Ruger Mk1 .22 my youngest brother got that would have been nice to have as well, since that and the .45 were the guns I learned to shoot with, but you have to give a little to get a little. I don't shoot either of them much, but they do get handled from time to time. :)
 
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