I'm a gun guy through and through!

I was raised around guns by a serious gun collector and shooter. My father shot on the Trap and Skeet circuits throughout the 50's 60's and 70's and even into the early 80's before retiring. I've reloaded more shot shells that you would even want to know!!! Talk about slave labor!

This was back before the "all in one" loaders, he just had a simple Mec and we (my brothers and I) had to de-prime and re-size on a different press before reloading on the Mec.

I started shooting when I was a little boy, about the same time I picked up my first bow. I've done both for as long as I can remember but my heart will always be with firearms. I've been collecting them for all of my adult life. The history and nostalgia that come with certain firearms is something bows don't and never will provide for me.

For me a bow is just a tool but guns (especially older or military) are a window to the a past that will never be seen again.

Here is a perfect example......

I wonder who held this 1851 Colt Navy, What battles did it see during the civil war? Wasit at Richmond, perhaps Antietam or Averasborough maybe even Gettysburg. Did it fight in the "Great Indian Wars" or protect a lawman in a western town? I'll probably never know, but that's ok. It's just a gun to most but it "talks" to me.