My Dad’s Gun 2023 Edition

[Hoji]

In Arkansas to finish up my PTO with just a little more hunting. Got a doe yesterday afternoon with my Tactifudd quiet 30-30 and this morning I took my Dad’s 30-30 that he bought new in 1972.

Fitting that it is the probably the last deer I shoot this season.

Have taken a deer with this gun every year since I inherited it when he died in 2005 ( deer count started in 2006 as he passed in late December )

This year’s doe shot loudly

 

[dbgun]

Congratulations! Very nice rifle.

 

[no2gates]

Sounds like the Bonechopper will be getting a workout soon.

 

[Hoji]

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Sounds like the Bonechopper will be getting a workout soon.

It did

 

[Texasjack]

You know, there's something about a gun that's been doing it's job for years - especially when it's passed down a generation or two. Same with a knife. I've got an old Buck knife that's been on every hunting trip. I have others - and have used them - but somehow that's the go-to knife.

 

[orbitup]

You know, there's something about a gun that's been doing it's job for years - especially when it's passed down a generation or two. Same with a knife. I've got an old Buck knife that's been on every hunting trip. I have others - and have used them - but somehow that's the go-to knife.

I have my grandfather's squirrel gun, a Winchester model 12 in 20 gauge made in 1948. I use it for dove. Sometimes I think about upgrading but I would probably use his more than any new gun. BTW my mother said she never ate the squirrel but I would bet Memaw snuck some on here plate a time or 2.

@Hoji Thats awesome.

 

[wakosama]

My oldest gun is grandpa's Winchester 57. I remember him telling me when he bought it at Marshal Fields in Chicago, because it was on an historic date: Feb 14, 1929. I used it to kill my first rabbit when my mother took me hunting in 1955. I was 6 1/2.

 

[Sasquatch]

Doin' your dad's memory and his gun right.

 

[paknheat]

What is the scope mounted on your dad’s 30-30?


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[Hoji]

What is the scope mounted on your dad’s 30-30?


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A circa 1999 Bushnell SportView 1-4.5

Corrected scope brand

 

[General Zod]

Almost all of my dad's guns were stolen in a burglary in 2013. The only one the thief missed was the Koon Snakecharmer .410 that was propped up by his dresser among a couple of pellet guns and an umbrella.

Good to see you getting to use your dad's rifle to take down some tasty goodness.

 

[deemus]

I’ve killed more dove with my dad’s Mossberg 500 12g than either of my Berettas. Looking forward to giving it to my son.

 

[paknheat]

A circa 1999 Bushnell SportView 1-4.5

Corrected scope brand

Looks right for what he was and now you’re doing with it.

I still have my dads guns & it is pretty awesome to get them out & let them bark once & a while for sure.

That was a nice doe you took with it right there.


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[Hoji]

Looks right for what he was and now you’re doing with it.

I still have my dads guns & it is pretty awesome to get them out & let them bark once & a while for sure.

That was a nice doe you took with it right there.


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I do not believe I have ever missed with it ( exception being the pig I shot at at over 500 yards. Bullet hit about 5 feet in front of him and he hauled ass, but I don’t really count that one, lol)

 

[paknheat]

That’s good stuff right there. Let the dirty 30 stretch it’s legs.

No doubt it hauled ass. No doubt you’d have killed it dead if that bullet had hit it.


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