I'm still smiling.... thanks

Great story. My oldest is only 21, but has already been handed his grandfather's Model 99 take-down featherwight in 300 Savage. And even though he saved and bought himself a new Model 700 remington in 30-06 4 years later.....which gun do you think he cradles and babies the most? Yep, you got it.

8mm/06 and all who read my post. Thanks for the comments, and Thanks for passing on our treasures both physical and material. My father bought me my first shotgun when I was in the 7th or 8th grade and 3 years before he died, he was 79, he gave me his old Remington 1148, 16 gauge. I doubt seriously that either gun is worth much to anybody else, but there is no amount of money that could buy either one.

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I have a rich gun heritage in my family, as my grandfather (step-grandfather, but the only one on my mom's side I ever knew) was a gunsmith. I grew up shooting .22's and later when the Sheridan company produced the Sheridan blue Streak and silver Streak we got pretty good with those also. I can't even begin to count the #'s of chipmunks and red squirrels we "dusted" either off his woodpile or in the pine stands near his cottage near Oscoda, Michigan by the great Ausable river. Gramps has been gone for 30 years this past April, but his guns and hunting/life experiences are a part of my life and now my boys'.
When I talk about this to others who don't hunt or shoot they cock their heads like the RCA Victor dog (I'm really dating myself now!)