Thread: Longest continuously owned firearms

Originally Posted by timattalon

While the oldest one in my contimous possession would be a Norinco JW27 I got in the mid 90s so nearly 30 years....However, The sxs shotgun was bought by my Grandad in the 1930s and was with my father since the 60s before I got it, in the last few years and the 22 long Stevens was about WW1 (thats right one) when grandad got it as his first rifle....I think I have a picture around here somewhere of him holding it and a billy goat he shot that is estimated to be just prior to ww1 when grandad went to war. He looked a lot older when he returned just a few years later (post ww1- I dont know how long he was over there..but it was long enough to find a wife to bring home but not long enough to get shot...)

Greetings,
You can find your grandad's records on line. The records do not show which battles the fought in but once you know which unit they were in you can put it together. I've looked up my Grandpop's records and those of other family members plus others of interest. A couple were killed and a lot more were wounded, some more than once. Some also lied about their age in both directions.
Grandpamac.

I have my father’s Ruger m77 Mk1 from the 60’s and I’ll never sell it but other than that nothing special.

We are all keen to hear from Buzzman on this thread…….

TIKKA 595 stainless in .223 and a Marlin 795 both bought new 23-24 years ago (both slightly different times).

Have in possession a double barrel percussion shotgun that my great grandfather bought out from Scotland. He was gatekeeper on a estate there. Also served in the second Boer War. Alas his service rifle was stolen....

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I bought an SLR in 1993/94 for $75 as a teenager and i still have it despite several stupid law changes trying to take it off me.

Unless I'm horribly wrong the humble 22 rimfire holds the record for longest serving metallic case cartridge

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Unless I'm horribly wrong the humble 22 rimfire holds the record for longest serving metallic case cartridge

And so it should
It was usually your first rifle and maybe the last one you have because of those childhood memories

Got my norinco 22 when I was 16. Still have it almost 22yrs on. Second longest would have been my Browning 300wsm 16yrs ownership.

If my memory serves me correctly in 1985, when I was 14, I sold a bull for $300 dollars. We went into the Taihape Sports Shop, sadly it has now closed (or is closing) and I brought a Kirco .22 for $360.
I still have that wonderful rifle and it has shot 1,000s of animals, birds, pine cones and some number 8 wire.
My son learned to shoot with the same model of Anshultz single shot .22 that I learned to shoot with, just not the same one. When I saw one I just had to buy it.

40 years ago I bought my first centerfire. A sporterised m96. I still have it to this day its on its second barrel and now has a timney and ramline stock

Savage shorty. It gets thrashed and still Moa.

howa up for sale yet???

Lee Enfield .303 #5 Jungle Carbine, bought in 1970 from Tony Busch's Corner Sports Shop in Nelson, so had it 53 years now. I was fifteen at the time & pestered the bejeezuz out of my folks till they bought it for me, lots of car washing, lawn mowing etc to pay it off. Shot my first couple of deer with it till I decided a PH .308 with a 2 1/2 power Kahles scope was the go (blame Graham Henry for the latter, a Rod & Rifle article extolling the virtues of low power scopes for bush shooting won me over) I've long since moved the PH on but still have the Jungle Carbine, did a reversible recoil pad mod to it & did some reduced load with 125 gr Sierras & IMR 4198 was fun shooting for the kids at the range. It had long had a dark barrel but before I got into the latter activities, I gave it a birthday with some Barnes copper out stuff, hell what a revelation, actually a pretty decent barrel. Its a keeper, at least till the fun police tell me I'm too old.

I remember Tony's shop well. Bought a 4x81 Pecar Champion scope there in about 1973. Was $104 which I recall was a lot of saved pocket money. I tried to get a 4X Kahles but there were none around.

My father got his dads shotgun (my grandfather) in 1955 when grandaad died. My understanding is that grandad bought it in the late 20s, early 30s when he returned from WW1 with a bride. Dad had it until he passsed and I got it to look after then. Its a 'sears' gun sxs 12g made in Belgium so not worth a great deal, but would be about 100 years in the family so worth something to me. I had a gunsmith tidy it up a few years ago and it still worked for a while but it has a habit of letting both hammers fall inone trigger so is now not used. It can only be used with very light loads or subsonic as it will not handle modern normal 12g ammo....