nrh0011
Senior Member
I dog deer hunted with a few guys that fit the bill of the op. When I think of them, I think of the rifle that they carried. There were many REM 7400 30-06 in that lot.
This one is a featherweight with a Burris.Very nice! I had a 1952 Standard M70 in 06 a 1954 Featherweight in .308 and a 1955 Standard in .270.
That looks like a Burris scope on top.
I have been blessed with the means to buy a new rifle ever year or two, but sometimes I feel like something has been lost. I remember my grandfather's gun rack. A 30-06, .22, and a side by side double and that was all he ever needed. I remember men in my family that I identified with a caliber or a rifle because for decades that's all they ever shot. "That Uncle Joe sure is a sharp shooter with that .243 he got after the war".... anybody else feel like with the affluence we lose a little bit of the nostalgia for a man and "his" gun?
You just described the gun rack of almost every older member of my family: A shotgun (usually a Stevens or H&R single-barrel 12 or 16 gauge,) a centerfire rifle (usually a 94 or 336 in .30/30,) a .22 rifle (usually a Remington single shot or clip-fed bolt-action,) and a short-barreled revolver (usually a S&W in .38 special or .32.) Quite a few of the older men also had an old, original percussion muzzleloader, or "hog rifle" as they were called here at that time. That was the standard utility gun collection, and most folks didn't need or want anything but those basics.
"As much as I love guns, I think something is lost when you have a safe or two full of them. Each successive one becomes a little less meaningful."
I couldn't disagree more. Granted, I have a few I love more than others, but doesn't everyone? I don't have any guns with no meaning and none have become less meaningful over time.
I've got your shotguns twin in 12gaI still have my great-grandpa's old Iver Johnson model 1900 16 gauge. It was made sometime between 1900 and 1908.
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Close, but mine has the stubby "half-hammer," and no recoil pad.I've got your shotguns twin in 12gaView attachment 956453View attachment 956453
Close, but mine has the stubby "half-hammer," and no recoil pad.