BWAHAHAHAHA!! Good thing I didn’t have a mouthful of coffee when I read your reply.

Some of my collections are extensions and additions of my grandfathers and fathers as well. Marbles, tops, bamboo fly rods, sxs's, tools, knives, and vintage 28 gauge shell boxes are my interest areas.

So that's where they went. Mystery solved.

I always thought this was cool. My Dad bought it for his Dad many, many years ago. When my Grandfather died, my Dad gave it to me. It now resides in my gun cabinet.

Alfred, Is it a bottle cap opener?

It is. I always found it odd as neither were dog men, nor gun guys. My Dad stopped hunting before I was born, and only owned two firearms, a Marlin .32 Winchester Special and a Remington Model 1100 Trap Gun that I bought him as a birthday gift while I was in the Navy. My youngest son now owns the Trap Gun.

My Mom used to say that I got my "gun thing" from her Dad. He died in 1945 so I never met him, but my Mom told me that he enjoyed bird hunting and always kept an Irish Setter around.

Upland sporting books. Pennsylvania (Kentucky) Long Rifles. I stick to local rifles, Bedford ,Somerset, and Cambria County makers.

Just many different things, Mainly Sharps Rifles lately, and a couple SBT guns, I have a weakness for Colt revolvers, Viper, and Boa's sold my set of Boa's regreted it ever since, Gary

Rocks. About 25 years ago I started picking up a small rock to bring home from most hunting trips. I use them as paper weights, ball markers on the golf course and just enjoy picking one up now and then to remember. My most treasured collection is my collection of friends and I am always searching for my next one. I have found that good friends enrich my life in immeasurable ways, cost virtually nothing but are of great value.

Interesting. Elaine and I have been “gathering stones” from our hunting trips for years. We have enough now to do some kind of landscape project.

Garry, Most of mine are pretty small. I suppose if I had my Sherpa along to carry them I would have collected larger ones. :rotf::rotf:

Ha! Elaine has been claiming she is treated like a Sherpa for years. Please don’t encourage her!:)

I used to do that on my fishing trips, then I'd take a sharpie and note the date and the place on it. But I don't travel much anymore, and where I fish now I'd just have to bring home a handful of mud :rotf:.

I have done this for years, as well. I keep them in a rock garden just off the back porch
One year, I found a crystal outcropping sticking out the side of a rocky hillside, and decided it needed to come home.
This was at the end of a deer hunt in Northern Nevada.
I couldn't pry it loose, so walked off about 50-60 yards and put a 160 gr Nozler Partition in just to the side of it.
The stone came loose, and is in my "collection".

I’ve got an accumulation of a lot of sporting memorabilia. From art to decoys to shell boxes to lots of stuff.

Setter Opener
 

Alfred…..From the early fifties to 1986 my father opened up hundreds of Carling Black Labels with the setter opener. In all my years of digging through antique shops I had never seen another till a couple of years ago and picked it up for my son. He already knows the story of mine and he will, among other things, use it when I am gone. Every darn time I use it I think of all those Black Labels and my Dad. Yours is only the third one I ever saw. Thanks for posting that…..

The Yellow Labrador opener is from 1980…. bought at the Old Forge Hardware Store In Old Forge, New York

I also collect German Shorthairs, but only in pairs.

Catalogs of all kinds,old fly reels,salmon flies,vises,woodworking tools,figured lumber,folk art furniture,antlers,horns and many,many books.

Antique folding (pocket) knives; and for fixed blade knives: butcher, chefs, and cleavers; and related books and catalogues.

Vintage fishing boat photos, and recorded interviews of many of the people that worked on them.

“Curated" trout and salmon flies that were my father's (1916-1993), some still in their unopened packages.

Anchors (how far would I have to travel before I found another anchor collector?).

I still have stored in steel ammunition boxes the matchbooks that my brother and I collected in our youth (the baseball cards typically disappeared long ago).