Do you collect other sporting items besides Parkers?

[Alfred Houde]

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.

[terc]

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

[Hammer Gun]

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

[Steiner]

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.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dan Steingraber

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.

[Steiner]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

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.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dan Steingraber

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

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

[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by Dan Steingraber

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.

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 .

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Dan Steingraber

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.

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".

[Mills]

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