mine would be my VHE 20ga that I bought for $35 and some work on a Stevens 311. My Ruger bearcat 22 pistol, Winchester mod 90 22cal and Winchester mod 70 featherweight 30/06.

This thread has brought out quite a few Pre 64 M70 fans. As far as a rifle goes other than a custom gun they are by far my favorite:bowdown:

I have always been a fan of hammer guns but I have used about everything.The beauty of the hammer gun still is my choice.

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I would keep my grandfathers Parkers. Two 12s and a 16.
His 250 Savage , 1911 Colt 45. Of the shotguns guns that I have acquired I would only keep the 28" Fox Sterlingworth 20 .
I have two rifles that would be very hard for me part with. A Remington model 721 257 Roberts that my Dad gave me and a 1949 Model 70 270.

I would keep my grandfathers 16 ga Vh which I had DelGrego rebuild about 8 years ago. Nice sweet 16 and the first gun that I doubled on grouse one early Saturday morning in Westwood, Mass. at age 17 and 3 hrs prior to a football game. If my coach only knew I was bird hunting prior to our games he would have been unmerciful! This is also the same gun that killed my grandfather while he was skeet shooting on his farm inn Hookset/Bow New Hampshire in 37'. The gun recoiled and struck him smack on the nose and rather than bleed out, he bled internally. Died the next day. This gun passed to my Dad and then to me upon his passing of Lou Gherig's disease. This gun stays in the family.

Well for me in shotguns, The Mattie gun like Gunners gun it will be cherished, hope to be finished by the fall, it is at the engravers now, it will be when finished a AA Hammer 16g a with vulcan barrels, also my 20g a A grade hammer. In rifles it would be my Weatherby 30-06 and my AK-47 national match with 25" barrels

Favorite shotgun AH Fox CE/HE Super Fox-I am a waterfowl addict and this gun speaks to me. Favorite Rifle Marlin 39A circa 1950 it brings out the young boy in me and reminds me of my Dad teaching me to shoot.

I sold my Dad's Savage 99 more than fifteen years ago and really have no regrets about it. But I will always keep the Winchester Model 94 .30-30 that he gave me the first year I started deer hunting with him in Vt. It was made in '41 and has wonderful patina and nice wood with some burl. It will go to my grandkids for sure.

In 1965 the brand new Stevens 20 gauge Model 77F was my second shotgun but the first one I ever bought myself. It came with an adjustable choke that I hated so much that I hack-sawed the barrel off just behind that monstrosity. I drilled and tapped the barrel and ran a brass machine screw in and filed it to a bead. That shotgun put a lot of pheasants, ducks, bunnies, and a few woodcock on the table and it will put a rifled slug in a 3" circle at 75 yards. I still have that gun and it will stay.

My Ruger No. 1 in .270 with Leupold Vari-X III 1.5-5 will always stay.

A lot of my Parkers will also stay but I haven't really given much thought to which ones might go and which ones will stay - I like them all so much I would be hard pressed to have to decide.

GAry i didn't know a National Match version of the AK-47 was ever made. You can learn something new here everyday. Is it chambered for 223 or 308?

Rich, It is chambered for 7.62x39, They were offered in the early 80's they have milled receivers wooden stocks, I have 2 one still in the box with all accessories, only test fired, the one I shoot is extremely accurate, and functions flawlessly, Gary