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Most of us have owned or do own or have shot more than just one firearm.  It is tough to come up with the answer to this question.  You don't have to still own the firearm or ever have owned it, just quite simply what is your favoite firearm, you can give a why if you want.  Shotgun, Rifle, Pistol or Revolver.  No cannons, bazookies, m-1 abrahams, chain guns or battleships please, just keep it to what you could carry.

Me, I think I'll take a while to decide and let you know later on.

Well Jake, crud, just one?!!!!

For a rifle, m-1 carbine

Shotgun, my winchester defender

pistol, my first gun I bought with my own money :  Makarov from Bakail.  The sights were microscopic, the finish was..rustic, the grips were...quickly replaced.  But, 5K rounds and NEVER ONE FTF,FTE, not once.  My first love, like my first car.  Thats why I love the Bersa 380 so much.  It is all the changes I wanted when I had the Makarov.

Wish I had a Mak again, and a bavarian m-1 carbine from the German occupation force. 

Noticed I just snuck in more than one.  Guns are like home made potato chips, cant stop at just one, ya know?

 

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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
both." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

1.Handgun granpa's 38. Colt commander witch I still have. 2. Riffle Colt or Bushmaster AR-15 will aventually buy but would have to leave in A.Z

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Bersa U/C 45, Colt 38 super Commander,Colt 38 super Combat Commander,Colt 38 Super hi capacity Goverment model, Springfield G.I 45, Star 45 cal,Star 9mm, FEG 9mm, Browing hi power 9mm, Maverick 12 gauge, Ruger mini 14 ranch,Romanian SAR-1.

Just one? Jeeze. I guess if pressed, my Dan Wesson 1911, with a bunch of really close seconds.

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You trying to screen for communists? Don't worry, we're all cool. - Dale

The year was 1956, I was only eight, and I know many on the forum were not even a gleam in their fathers eye, so I don't need any smart ass remarks about being older than dirt.  Anyhow, I remember riding around with my Uncle Bogy in his new F-100 tu-tone black and white, checking his cotton crops.  Anytime we spotted a Jack rabbit, it was headed to bunny heaven.  Uncle Bogy was no Elmer Fudd with his Remington 121 Fieldmaster 22.  Open sights, anything within a 100 yards was toast, that rifle shot only heat seeking bullets.  I was allowed to shoot it on occasion.  I wonder which of my cousins inherited it.  I remember asking Uncle Bogy why he didn't put notches in the stock, he said if he did, there wouldn't be any stock.  Maybe the fact he was my favorite Uncle is why the 121 was my favorite gun.  

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Just one? Jeeze. I guess if pressed, my Dan Wesson 1911, with a bunch of really close seconds.

Your killing me Parrothead...I want ..I need.  Very happy with my EMP, but it needs a big brother.

RC

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My grand father's Marlin model 81 bolt action .22 is pretty sweet. It isn't worth anything to anyone but me and dad, but it's dadgum accurate. Lately I'm really diggin' the couple of wheelguns that I have. I have an early Dan Wesson model 15 that's a lot of fun, and has the best blueing I've ever seen.

i was eight in 1956 too!!!!!!! oh my gawd. another oldtimer.  I have to say i like all my guns. one day i like my smith revolver. the next day i like my ruger 22/45...etc, etc.........every day i shuffle them. i need a few more.
now if the county would just do an aerial spray for these darned mosquitos i could go outside and shoot the guns.
toni
that's a purdy gun there pardner

I was 16 in 1956- S&W 25-5 - 8 3/8 barrel.

The year was 1956, and waterdude was another 19 years from birth. I was taught to be reverent, and although you've all heard me make fun of dad; well that pump .22 is mighty sweet. You older dudes are pretty cool.

My old 1964, Winchester model 94  .30-.30

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Mike

My favorite is my Mossburg Model 695 Bolt Action 12 Gauge. Cheepest/uglyest/heaviest gun I own, first gun I bought myself in Highschool.  Its put more meat in the freezer than all my other guns combined.... last year I posted a pic, I hit a one-inch Bullseye dead center at 100yards at the local gun club range, could see a red ring where the bull was....

most prised??  a Ithaca 16 gauge deerslayer, "was my uncles

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BT - Now with modS!

Mine has to be an Interarms Mark X .270. I would bet someone to put a bullet hole in a target down range at 100 yds and from a rest I could touch the bullet hole, with the rifle.

It got stolen in a home robbery in 1983. I wish  I could find it again.

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My Favorite always seem to be the last one I shot.

DD

Well, I was 10 in 1956, for you younger fellas out there, and my favorite gun was the single shot Eastern Arms shotgun that my aunt let me use (it was hers) while I hunted with my Uncle Fred. We hunted small game and I don't ever remember shooting a single critter - a few tree limbs that were covered with snow and that's about it. Three years later, I bought the shotgun from Aunt Grace when I turned thirteen. I've owned it ever since and just recently had it bored out to fire 2-3/4 & 3" shells. Previously it was bored to shoot only 2-1/2" shells which I haven't been able to find for some time. In 1971, I bought my first rifle - a bolt action .22lr from Sears & Roebuck. Still have that too. Spin the clock forward 15 yrs and I had purchased a couple of handguns which I only had for a short time and don't remember anything about them except they were small caliber wheel guns. Twenty-two years later (this year) and I bought a SIG P-6 and that started the onset of the disease. Since the P-6, I've owned a Glock 26, a Sig Mosquito, a Glock 36, a Bersa Thunder 380, and am picking up a Glock 30 on Thursday.Each and every one of my current guns are my favorite when I am shooting them. They all give me a special thrill that I had missed in life up until the P-6 purchase. I enjoy handguns especially and I enjoy shooting. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at it (yet.) With practice though, I'm getting better.

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God bless and protect you.
Glock 36, Glock 27
Bersa Thunder 380, Taurus PT145 coming
Winchester Model 94 .30-30, S&R Co. .22lr bolt action, Eastern Arms 20 ga. single shot
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