I have one of those too. It needs a new bolt handle. Someone replaced it with a big old screw, and it fires fine, but it doesn't have the bolt locking feature anymore.entropy wrote:I've got a few guns that way, too, millman. I have a Stevens 87-type click-clack sitting in the safe with a ziplock bag of internals sitting on top of the safe, needs some internals.
That is a very nice shotgun.AMCHornet wrote:I have a great story about my free shotgun.
My grandfather was an accountant in the mid-1950s. He did some accounting work for somebody and they didn't have the funds to pay him (ironic), so they paid him with a shotgun. He stuck it in his bedroom closet where one of his daughters found it in 1959, loaded a single shell, and blew a hole in the bedroom wall while showing off to a friend. My grandmother was on the other side of that wall pregnant with my mom. Nobody was hurt, but the shotgun went right back in the closet where it sat until I discovered it in 2012, but didn't say anything. My grandfather died in 2014 and though everybody knew about the infamous shotgun in the closet, nobody wanted it so I asked if I could have it from the estate and everybody agreed. Sitting next to it was a box of 25 1950's Remington "Kleen-bore" shells....with 1 shell missing.
It was a 1955 Winchester model 12 heavy duck, 3" magnum 12-gauge that had only been fired once.
Thank you, I think so too. i was surprised that nobody else in my family wanted it. They all said "I already have a shotgun" before ever laying eyes on this one. They didn't even care to find out what it was.millman wrote:AMCHornet wrote: That is a very nice shotgun.
I appriciate you asking, but I don't want to be rude and derail this thread off subject. Most of my cars are cars that most car people would not consider classic cars. Most of my cars are 1960s-1970s AMC and Jeep and most were owned by my parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents. I keep these cars because they contain the memories of my loved ones who owned them. I emotionally tie objects (not just cars) to the people who owned them. If I loved that person, I love their belongings almost as much as I loved them. Their memory lives on in the object.Brake Weight wrote:I’ve got a shotgun. I’ve got several and wouldn’t turn down another. What sort of classic cars? No one in my family has hung onto any cars for very long.
I agree. My family is split half and half like that. Inlaws keep everything but the big ticket items.AMCHornet wrote:I appriciate you asking, but I don't want to be rude and derail this thread off subject. Most of my cars are cars that most car people would not consider classic cars. Most of my cars are 1960s-1970s AMC and Jeep and most were owned by my parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents. I keep these cars because they contain the memories of my loved ones who owned them. I emotionally tie objects (not just cars) to the people who owned them. If I loved that person, I love their belongings almost as much as I loved them. Their memory lives on in the object.Brake Weight wrote:I’ve got a shotgun. I’ve got several and wouldn’t turn down another. What sort of classic cars? No one in my family has hung onto any cars for very long.
Three generations before me did the same thing. They didn't do it to the extent that I do, but I think that tendency to keep objects of emotional value was strong. Some of them became real hoarders. They were also frugal tight-asses who grew up during the Great Depression and would rather keep using an old thing until it absolutely falls apart rather than buy a new thing to "keep up with the Joneses". Even after that thing falls apart, they would shove it into a closet or garage and forget about it until I discovered it 20 years later.
So basically being the descendent of a family of hoarders has its benefits: free stuff like shotguns. The downside is you have to resist the hoarding tendency and pick and choose what things are worth keeping and what things must go away, otherwise you fill your house with useless crap.
Same here.entropy wrote:Could you teach that to my wife?
Now that is what it's all about.billybob123 wrote:When my dad died a little over 20 years ago the day after the funeral my mom took all the kids (we were all well grown with kids of our own) into my bedroom that I grew up in and had dad's 5 shotguns laid out on my old bed. She said that dad told her before he died that he wanted each of his 5 kids to take one of his shotguns. My 3 older siblings deferred their decision on what to take to the next younger. I was the last one in line since my kid brother was in prison. I chose the Browning B2000 because mom had given it to dad a few years earlier as an anniversary present (she died 2 1/2 years later). My next older brother chose the Remington 11-48. My sister chose the A-5 and my oldest brother chose the 1100. The old single shot went to my brother who chose the 11-48 since the jailbird could not own guns. Now 25+ years later my son uses dads Browning to duck hunt with me. Just yesterday in fact, I put a new action recoil spring in it since it jammed on him last year a couple of times. That Browning sure is a sweet shooting duck gun and I hope my son passes it down to his son. Coincidentally despite having 4 boys I am the only one with a son and a grandson to carry on the family name. All my other brothers just had daughters.
