Already have "handed down" the following:
1. A pair of Colt "Frontier Scout" .22 revolvers in a beautiful, hand carved leather holster and gunbelt set. Dad gave the rig to me many years ago, and I in-turn gave them to my oldest nephew (Dad's oldest grandson) because I knew, of all of my relatives, he's the one that would most appreciate them.
2. A Browning "BAR" 30-06 semi-auto that my wife's sister's husband gave me after he contracted macular degeneration and lost his eyesight. Ten or twelve years ago, I gave that rifle to a good friend who needed an elk rifle, but was down on his luck and had had to sell his guns in order to keep his family afloat financially. He's back up now, but he's still killing Montana elk with that rifle.
3. Just a few weeks ago, our youngest grandson informed us he was going to get himself an elk rifle of some kind because his boss is buying him a guided elk hunt as a bonus this fall. So I told him he might just as well take my old 338 Win Mag - a custom job built around a pre-64 Model 70 action. He kind of "lit up" when I told him, "It's going to be yours someday anyway."
My wife too, has already sort of "handed down" a couple of 7mm-08s in that she let our oldest grandson use one of them (a tang-safety Ruger 77) for deer hunting one year, and he still has it. Then, a few years later, my wife let our oldest daughter use her other 7mm-08 (a Model 70 Featherweight Classic built in the late '90s) for deer hunting, and our daughter did the same thing - she still has it. That's okay though - nowadays my wife uses a highly customized Model 70 "Classic" 7mm Rem Mag for big game hunting. I guess that rifle too will belong to one of our 2 daughters, or one of our 4 grandsons (all of our grandchildren are boys) someday. Or maybe not - our oldest grandson is getting married come July this year. So my wife and I will probably have
great-grandchildren before long. A few of my wife's and my guns might sort of "skip" a generation or two when they get "handed down."
