Brought a Tikka T3 .270win when I turned 18, 17 years ago. Still have it, still shoots fantastically after about 1000 rounds. Don't think I'll ever sell it.
My longest continuously owned rifle but certainly not my oldest rifle.
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zastava .223 bought with my "give up smoking" money while wife was preggers with our first..she was born in 1998 so guess that means rifle is 25-26 years old now
my JW15 2lr Ive owned 3 times after selling to mates then buying back..that would be closer to 30 years ago I bought it new
my pump 12ga must be 10 years old..it left my safe for a year and just found its way back again.
Bought my Gevarm .22 on decimal changeover day for 50 pounds, still have the original police gun certificate. Still have it and occasionally use it. I have kept it as it has a really grained walnut stock; that and its sentimental value - it won be me the shooting cup at school.
Bought a Winchester Model 290 Semi auto .22 rifle in Western Australia back in 1977. Still have it , still use it occasionally. And Marlin 336T 30-30 bought in 1978
It's a wonder they let you use your own rifle at school, let alone an auto. I still remember the old shitters they had at school, including the even-worse ammo. Possibly one shot in ten, certainly 20, was squib round. Appallingly bad.
Having been surprised with someone using their own gun for school comps, realised after I said that that I actually won our school's cup using my own .303, carried to school that day on my back on the motorbike.
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Had to find that cup first then use a fair bit of Autosol to take the deep tarnish off. Hadn't seen the light of day for years.
BSA Meteor, 57 years ago, has about 6 inches of smooth bore from using saliva covered slugs.
Also a Chinese bolt action .22 30 yrs old.
@Maca49 I'm almost scared to ask why the projectiles has saliva on them !
But it sounds like some weird superstition, so why ?
At one time, in the dim and distant past, small bore target shooters would "kiss the bullet". The idea being that the saliva would soften the wax coating I suppose.
GPM.
PS. Perhaps @Maca49 did not have a shirt pocket to put the spare slug in.
I just can't compete with you guys :yaeh am not durnk:
yeah don't remember that at small bore but we used a little pottle of never Nickle at full bore with our 303 little grey alloy container (still have one ) dip bullet in sorry just the projectile in - the container had a felt washer at the top so it was just a smear on projectile and fire