What Was Your Fathers Favorite Firearm ?

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Judging by the guns my father owned ... Browning Auto 5 in 12 gauge, Remington 550-1, a semi auto .22. and a Remington Model 17 20 gauge shotgun.
He brought back an M1 Carbine from the Korean war, so I suspect he liked it enough to drag it back in his duffle bag.
 
My grandpa was my hero. His favorite gun was his Belgium Browning Auto in 12 gauge that he bought in the late 50's. Serial number is 9XX. Many, many dead pheasants.
 
Our elders had good taste

My father had an old Belgium Auto 5. I have one today and it shoots better than the new pricey scatter guns I have today. There is a secret few people know about those guns unless they have the original instructions. It deals with which way the steel ring is placed on the spring.

He also had one pistol. It was a nickle plated H&R, 9 shot .22 pistol. No matter where he went, that gun was always under his car seat. I never knew of him owning any other guns. He said he did not need any other guns.

Now I understand his reasoning. It took me a long time to learn and appreciate the basis for his wisdom.
 
Dad's favorite gun was an Ithaca M37 12 gauge that Mom bought him as a welcome home gift in 1946. He hunted everything with that one gun; pheasants, quail, partridge, deer, rabbits, and coyotes. My brother and I tossed a coin to see who would keep it. My brother won and the M37 resides in the center front of his gun cabinet.
 
Dads favorite rifle is a Winchester Canadian Centinial 1867 - 1967 30-30. Octogan barrel - very beautiful rifle. My mom bought it for him in 1967 for about $100.00 at either Whites or K-Mart in Roswell, NM. 2 weeks later, he bagged a 10 pointer in the Capitan mountains. He never shot it again. He figures he put about 2 boxes through it at the most.

He loved the rifle and since 1967 was the year I was born, I think it was something more to the that rifle. I guess it was a father - son thing to him.
Anyhow, last deer season, he gave it to me to take out but I just couldn't bring myself to shoot it. It will remain well oiled and unshot in my gun safe, waiting to pass down to my son.

LGB
 
My dad's favorite firearm was his Winchester Mod 12 20GA. When my grandfather passed away my dad then inherited his Winchester Mod 12 in 12GA. After that he had two favorite firearms. I now have them both in my gun safe since dad died.
 
Dads favorite rifle is a Winchester Canadian Centinial 1867 - 1967 30-30. Octogan barrel - very beautiful rifle. My mom bought it for him in 1967 for about $100.00 at either Whites or K-Mart in Roswell, NM. 2 weeks later, he bagged a 10 pointer in the Capitan mountains. He never shot it again. He figures he put about 2 boxes through it at the most.

He loved the rifle and since 1967 was the year I was born, I think it was something more to the that rifle. I guess it was a father - son thing to him.
Anyhow, last deer season, he gave it to me to take out but I just couldn't bring myself to shoot it. It will remain well oiled and unshot in my gun safe, waiting to pass down to my son.

LGB
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LGB -- What a great rifle story. I respectfully recommend that you and your son get out and shoot that rifle together. A lot. Honest hunting wear on a hunting rifle has its own beauty and value.

It's what the rifle is for. Those Winchester commemoratives, as much as they are ripped on as "overproduced" (especially the later commemoratives) are actually very nice shooting rifles.
 
Beat's me. I should call him up and ask him.

I DO know that his first firearm was a Raven .25

He still has that piece of crap. I even bought walnut grips for it last year.
 
M1, (He carried it for 2.5 years in WWII. But sold all the guns he brought home to help pay for bills, etc., many decades ago. :()
 
'03 Springfield. He used one in combat in the Pacific in WWII and much preferred it to the Garand. He despised the M1 Carbine after witnessing friends die due to it's lack of stopping power.

gary
 
My dad's favorite was a .38 Special Smith and Wesson Military and Police.
That was also the first "real gun" I ever shot. Thought it kicked like a mule when I was young.
 
Dad always talks fondly of the M1 that he qualified on.
I think that's the only gun he ever truly liked
 
.16 gauge side by sides. My dad passed a long while back, but the guns cabinet was loaded with .16's, mostly side by sides, but some semi's and even a bolt action box feed mossberg in .16
 
My dad was an extremely avid hunter until his health failed him. He wasn't into guns for their own sake, though. He used a Winchester Model 88 .243 for many years along with a Model 12 in 16 gauge. These guns did everything he wanted so he used them exclusively. Later in life, he won a .17 HMR, a Savage I think, which was the first gun I ever saw him get excited over. Last year, he gave away or sold almost all his guns, but he kept that one.
As a police officer, he carried what he was issued. His department presented him with his guns when he retired. He continued to use them as county sheriff for another 12 years. Last year, he gave them to me. One is a S&W .38 snub and the other is a Colt 1911. I carry the .38 as EDC.
 
1906 Winchester pump .22. It was his fathers. My Grandma and Grandpa had matching 1906's. I got Grandpas, my brother got Grandmas. Mine was used a lot more and shows it. It's killed more cottontail than I could ever count. My Dad has owned lots of guns but it is by far his favorite. I am very proud to now own it.
 
Geez, Doom, I'd sure like a day to pick through the guns on those photos you posted. Awesome.

My dad was on the job a long time ago. His carry gun was an Iver Johnson 5-shot top-break revolver in .32 caliber. Not sure that it was his favorite, but it's the one that was handed down to me that I still cherish to this day. You can pick these up for next to nothing online, but this one is priceless in my estimation.
 
My dad was in the Army artillery during Korea, so I would say his favorite gun was a 90mm. He could tell you all about it and calculating the ballistics info, test firing etc.. Anytime anyone started talking about German 88s, he would tell you why the 90mm was just as good.

He carried an M-1 carbine, but he said the infantry guys always told him, if you ever in a situation where you need to use it throw it down and run. No court martial will ever convict you.

Other than that he never really had any interest in guns. I had to really campaign to get my first BB gun.
 
My father only had two guns: a luger he brought back for WW2 and a Mauser. He never hunted. They were just around. He used to take the Luger out and clean it once and awhile. He kept it in his room for home defense. I read his war record once and he was an expert marksman but was issued a light machine gun. Beyond that one time about his war record, he never talked about the war.
 
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