Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Have a firearm you will never get rid of till the day you pass? Personally I have a few becasue I just plain old like em, not as though they are expensive but do have 2 rare finds. I would have to say there are half a dozen I would never get rid of... You?

Personally, I'd say my 1911. It's a knock-off, but I love it to death. My father gave it to me on my 18th birthday, and I plan to pass it on to my son/daughter on theirs.

Plus it just shoots SOOOOOO nice.

All of acquisitions are keepers. My number one go to though is my glock 22c with night sights, 2lb trigger, accurized barrel and all new state of the art internals. I've had it for years and it will stay by my side as long as I can pull the. Trigger.

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For my 13th birthday, my father bought me a brand new Remington Nylon 66 .22 rifle. It's not very expensive or pretty for that matter, but it's priceless to me.

Next year, it was a Marlin Model 25, also a .22 rifle. They are both equally valuable to me.

Yikes! That's a tough question. I wouldn't want to part with any of them!

But if I absolutely had to pick and make up a "short list" of ones that I would keep until my dyin' day, as the songs say, it definitely would include the old bolt-action Mossberg .22 rifle that I got from my dad. I don't know where he got it from - might be from his father, I dunno. I would guess it probably dates from the 1950s. He had it at least since I was a tiny baby, and it was the very first gun I ever fired, when I was 11 years old. It's really not much special - pretty much a standard inexpensive rifle that you probably could have bought from a hardware store for $25 or something, but it's a nice little rifle and shoots very accurately with plain old iron sights. It has a full walnut stock.

I don't remember how I ended up acquiring it, actually, but I've had it for about 10 years now. A few years ago, I took it all apart and refinished the stock and re-blued the barrel and it looks really sweet now.

Other than that, probably my Para Ordnance OPS 1911, which is a very sweet-shooting pistol, and my Sig P228, which is just a damn nice gun.

Both of my guns are "firsts". I doubt that I'd ever be inclined to sell them, but in the event that I acquire similar guns in the future, I may give my current two to my son. He'll be 18 in four more years, and it seems to me that a gun or two may be just the right gift for an American citizen just crossing the threshold into manhood.

Too easy; My Ugartechia Over/Under 16 GA shotgun. It was made to fit my Dad when he was a Navy Lt. on leave in Barcelona in the 1950s. I have all of the paperwork from it including his complaint that he did NOT want his name inlaid on the front grip. The factory refunded the $2.50 cost.

In the worst case, the gun goes to my son, it fits him too.

I really love my CZ usa P-07 duty i went in to the gun store held it for about 5 seconds. I fell in love with the gun only took it shooting once so far but i will own this gun forever i have never held a hand gun that fits my hand so perfectly.

It would be a lot easier for me to decide which ones I'd let go than to decide which ones I wouldn't. But in my case, you're talking about a guy who has on occasion traded, but never sold a gun. My kids will inheret my guns unless they have to sell them to hire pallbearers.

I shot .22 a lot as a kid with my dad. He had an old pump action .22, and would take us out plinking and can hunting. He was really good with it, iron sights and all. Wish I had that gun now.
In adulthood, my interest in the shooting sports was renewed back in the '90's when my father-in-law gave me an aged Remington 510 TargetMaster single-shot .22 bolt action rifle that had belonged to a family member. This is the gun my older kids have learned to shoot with, and that my youngest will learn to shoot with. So this one stays.

My first new gun that I bought is a Henry .22 pump-action, round barreled model (they have an octagonal barrel now). Nicer than the old pump gun my dad had, but still makes me nostalgic when we take it out shooting. If I were to part with this gun, it would only be because my oldest daughter took a liking to it as a teen-ager, and now considers it her gun.

Interesting how many of us have fond memories attached to a very simple .22 rifle, and have identified that as the one we would never let go.

Seems a lot of kids start with dad's old cheap and simple, but reliable, .22 rifle.

My Sig 228,,been with me a very long time and will continue to do so

Actually I have two...I have a Marlin 336 in 30-30 that the orginal owner took steel wool to trying to remove the bluing(why???)...it is ugly as hell but shoots great and I love it
The other is a Heritage Arms single action 45 long colt...cost more to shoot it than to buy it but it is a blast to shoot....love em both and will never part with either

it's one of my newer purchases, but my LWRC M6 SPR will never be sold.

My LWRC M6A1 and my Sig P228 West German (now have two). I carried a Sig for three tours overseas and it was a M11. It feels good to have a Sig on my hip compared to other guns I have carried.

My rankings:

Colt Python
Mars Armament Colt 1911 THUG
Smith and Wesson 627
Ruger GP100



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I'd hate to part with any of them, though the old Dan Wesson 15s were my first revolvers and will probably go on to my son.

I think I will always keep my future Seecamp LWS32 and LWS380 as they will have been made for me. I do like my MkIII 678 Target.

CDRGlock wrote:My rankings:

Colt Python

Willing to part with that Python by any chance ?

Personally my SKS. I grew up shooting one and it was a gift from Dad.

The one you pry from my cold dead hands...

Sorry couldn't resist.