What firearm have you owned the longest?

1969,, I was officially given a hand-me-down single-shot .22 rifle. A Sears model, bolt action. Burned a LOT of ammo through it over many years. It's still here.

hittman said:

Savage 170 pump chambered in 30-30.
Got it for my 15th birthday, 50 years ago.
Thanks Mom. RIP.

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Always wanted one of those!

Remington wing master 20ga lightweight youth. Poppa put it on layaway when I was born. Took him a year of not eating lunch most days to get it out. I'm nearly 51 now, so 50 years.
I had a piece added to lengthen the stock after I got older. I still use it to squirrel hunt.

Ithaca single shot model 49. Got it for Christmas in 1969. Must have a million rounds through it , and still shoots good.

The one I've owned the longest is the first one I bought when I was 18 back in 1966. Nothing special bought it from my cousin and we used to shoot crows with it down at the creek. That's all parking lot now for a strip mall. 12 gauge single shot Stevens model 94 don't know how many rounds have been through it, the barrels a little short, but just barely legal.

Definitely not my prettiest gun

Nine years old, Christmas of 67 got a Winchester model 94 Canadian Centennial 30-30 carbine and my twin brother got the rifle model with consecutive serial numbers. Next in 72 we both got Browning BL-22's and then in 74 came the Remington 788 in 6mm, We both still have them all and will pass them on family… eventually.

Mossburg 187-d, 20ga. bolt action. Been mine for about 55 yrs. Originally my Grandfathers.

Hmm afraid I can't compete as my oldest is a Daisy Model 25 from 1962. Next would be dad's 98K bring back inherited around 72.

Colt Government Model MkIV 45ACP bought in 1975.

Remington Nylon 66. My daddy gave it to me way before I was old enough to have a rifle. It was in the late 60s, I was 3 or 4. I'm sure mama about died.

A Browning 12 ga. A-5 Magnum purchased when I was in college in 1961. Shot lots of ducks and geese with that one.

I have my grandfather's single barrel 12 ga. "Nitro Hunter" bought by him the year after he and my grandmother got married (1900). It became mine when he passed away. (1959)

I was not a gun person, but owned a small handgun that I had never fired, acquired from a friend for almost nothing in the 1970's. It was stolen from my home during a burglary in 1985. That incident, coming home to find the house had been broken into and robbed, woke me up to the reality of city crime, so I went out the next morning and bought a new gun for myself. It was a S&W Model 19, nickel, 4 inch barrel 357 Magnum. For years it was my only gun, and I still own it now 39 years later. It will never be sold as it is the only one of my guns that any of my grown kids has expressed a desire for once I am gone. It will go to my youngest son. Still a beautiful, classic gun that I would trust my life with.

Mine is a Colt 22/22wmr Peacemaker. I traded a 1964 short bed Ford pickup with a blown engine for the revolver in 1975.

Marlin 22 handed down to me when I was 8 50 some years ago. I was the Third Generation to have it. Deciding who gets it next. Which will be the 4th or fifth. I have my old 410 Monkey Wards single shot that I got around the same time in the back of one of the safes. My nephew let it rust all to crap and I have to get around to restoring it.

The oldest gun in my possession is my great grandfather's 1880's Belgian-made 16 ga muzzle loading percussion cap SxS hammer gun. (Now a wall hanger). The oldest gun I own is a 12 ga. Marlin Model 90DT made in 1950 that my dad bought used for me in 1957 when I was 14. (67 years). He shortened the stock and added a recoil pad to fit me. Later, he lengthened the stock by adding a piece cut from another old stock when I got bigger.

I remember as a young child, going over to my dad's friends shop, who showed my father a brand new Ruger 10-22 rifle, that just came out. He told dad, this would be the best selling 22 ever! It was a 4 digit serial number (which I still remember) I learned to shoot with that gun, I taught my kids to shoot that gun, now grands are just getting there.

I believe that rifle was born about 1964, so I've had it for 60 years. Hopefully 10-20 more……

Winchester 131 bolt action 22LR rifle. Received 57 years ago for Christmas present. 3 or 4 years before that i received a Daisy Single action BB revolver looking gun. Still have it too.

My Ruger 10/22
I have had it since I was in the 8 grade!
57 years!
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