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11-07-2023, 08:18 AM | #13 | ||||||
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My go to early grouse season is also a 16 ga "O" frame from 1903.
But to the original question? The last two would likely be my paternal grandfathers .45 cal mod 1911 and my maternal great grandfather's deer rifle, a Remington .35 cal. Have to keep those in the family. |
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11-07-2023, 09:17 AM | #14 | ||||||
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My two are easy. I have always been a rifle guy first. I seem to always have too many guns, but when I started travelling to hunt I put together a first model ruger 77 in.338. Graphite stock, Magnaport (old style) and 1.5x6 Leupold. First group with Federal Premium 210 Partitions went into 3/8". I killed every head of game I shot from coyote to elk with that gun, every one a one shot kill.
The other is a Ruger No. 1 that started life as a 25-06 Varmint that I loaned to my Dad for what turned out to be his last deer hunt and last shot from a gun. Still have the case. I did a total redo of it in the style of a early 1900's Fahrquarson in 300 H&H.The stock was from a piece of French Walnut sourced from a grove outside Paris torn down by Panzers early in WWII. CC action and furniture, express sites, 1/2 octagon half round barrel. It was in memory of his service during the war. |
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11-07-2023, 11:02 AM | #15 | ||||||
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My list is always shifting. My Trojan 20 that Julia gave me when we got married is officially the favorite, but I don't shoot it as much.
Current favorites are a VH 16 0 frame I bought from a fellow member and a pre 64 Model 70 .308 that finally missed a deer this weekend. Yet another 16 is on the way, so stay tuned for that . . .
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11-09-2023, 10:48 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Don:
That DH does sound like an exceptional gun, to admire and regularly use, for both regional hunting or skeet -- right to the end. My first choice, last-to-go gun, is its country cousin, a couple of years junior to yours. It is a 16-gauge 0-frame VH, with 26-inch Vulcan steel barrels, factory choked cylinder and modified, and shipped to Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co. Boston (the city in which I was born) Massachusetts (the state in which I have always resided) in January of 1907. Plus, I once shot a daily limit of Ruffed Grouse (4) with the gun, a lucky day for someone of my inveterately amateurish skill level in knocking down either clay or live birds.
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