Who regularly shoots a gun older than they are??

[45/30-06OKIE]

My M1 Garand is from November 1944 and I'm sure that's older than most people on here... I was born in 1996.
I have been trying to shoot it more since now I got the SilencerCo ASR muzzle brake on it and can use our Hybrid 46M suppressor on it. I've got a video posted in the NFA sub of me shooting it.
Edit to add gratuitous pic of said Suppressed M1 Garand.

 

[JmacD]

I shoot the “ cal .30 model 1917” of my dad’s fairly often. Or did till the stock split through the pistol grip. Also his smittys are both from 60 something I believe. My Mexican Mauser is from 1913? I believe. Or is it 36? Predates me be better than a half century one way or tother.

 

[Bazoo]

Pretty awesome pictures and guns being shown here. For me, it's a Winchester 94 30-30 made in 1970, and a Ruger Single Six made in... I think 1981, just a couple of years before me. I have a friend that shoots a Winchester 94 that was made in 1898 I think it was. It's a cool old gun for sure.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

.455 Webley MkIV with Victoria Regina BP proofs.
7.63mm Mauser C96 approx 1912-1913.
7.62mm Mosin 91/30 built on a 1926 "hex" receiver.
.30 Carbine M1 made by IBM 1943.

 

[tmd16556]

Most of mine are older than me, but I find I put a higher round count through the newer ones at each outing.

 

[luzyfuerza]

My 1944-vintage Garand and IBM GI M1 carbine each get shot a fair amount. Most recently on Veterans' Day with a group of much younger friends

 

[ontarget]

I try pretty hard to avoid buying guns that aren't older than me.
Newer guns at least have to be of an older design than me to interest me. Like the 1911 or BHP, S&W Hand Ejectors, SAA clones. You get the picture.

 

[Deus Machina]

My Mosin Nagant M44 is a favorite of mine.
The only gun my dad formed a particular attachment to, which he hunted with alongside his father and for many years in my childhood was the only reason we had meat, is a Stevens side-by-side 16-gauge that my grandpa was too young to buy new.

 

[lightman]

Regularly no, but I have a few older them me that I do shoot. My 1873 Winchester is one of them.

 

[scaatylobo]

I often use my William Ford duck shotgun (1936) for sporting clays and quail.

I am pretty sure the only guns that I own that are older than me are.

Remington model # 8 in .35 Rem.

And very possibly the old mint break top in .32 made by Harrington & Richardson.

OMG = looked at the posts and suddenly realized the 2 WW2 carbines are older than me.

as well as the Mosin Nagants that are a few years my senior.

 

[tark]

As per the other thread on this, about half my safe is older than I am.

That makes two of us.

 

[entropy]

I have two Ithaca Trap guns, one from the year my Dad was born, the other from the year my grandpa was 13 years old. I shoot them several times each throughout the year.
I lent the '41 Model 37 Trap to a friend this summer as it was more comfortable to shoot than her grandpa's field Model 37. I shot the 1926 4e SBT this fall in honor of a recently passed friend who shot his all the time.

 

[grampster]

Dad's Ranger 20 ga and Remington mod 34 .22 s/l/lr bolt action. He bought both in early 1930s iirc.

 

[CajunBass]

I haven't had it long enough to say I "regularly" shoot it, but I have fired it. A Smith and Wesson M&P, 38, with a 6" barrel, from 1951 (I'm a 52 model myself). I think it was unfired since leaving the factory when I got it, but I've put 50 or 100 rounds of wadcutters through it.

And the box it came in..number on the box, matches the gun.

I probably wouldn't have bought the gun, except for the box. I don't really care for a 6" barrel gun, especially a plain M&P, but the package was too good to pass up, especially since it's the closest one I've seen to a "birth year" gun, and it's grown on me now. I kinda like it.

 

[shootstraight57]

I regularly shoot my FN 49 chambered in 30-06.

 

[EMC45]

I regularly shoot my Remington Model 11 (1914) and my New England Westinghouse M91 Mosin. I have other guns that are old, but those 2 are probably the oldest.

 

[mm93]

Even at my advanced age of 73, almost all of my guns are nearly twice as old as I am! I collect and shoot late 1800's single shot rifles. Mostly Marlin Ballard and Remington single shots. I hunted with them also until a few years ago when I quit hunting, and took numerous deer with my old single shots. I still shoot many of them at the range, and at local matches. I shoot from 200-1000 yds. and make ammo for all of them since almost all are obsolete cartridges, or need good loads to be very accurate.

These are a few of my old singles I shoot.

 

[J-Bar]

Even at my advanced age of 73, almost all of my guns are nearly twice as old as I am! I collect and shoot late 1800's single shot rifles. Mostly Marlin Ballard and Remington single shots. I hunted with them also until a few years ago when I quit hunting, and took numerous deer with my old single shots. I still shoot many of them at the range, and at local matches. I shoot from 200-1000 yds. and make ammo for all of them since almost all are obsolete cartridges, or need good loads to be very accurate.

These are a few of my old singles I shoot.

Exceptional!

 

[Old Hobo]

I routinely fire handguns and rifles older than I -- older even than my parents generation and they were born in the 1920s.

 

[.455_Hunter]

Life would be pretty boring if I am limited my shooting to guns younger than myself.

 

[Chief TC]

I regularly shoot about 5 rifles that are way older than I am.
1888 Trapdoor - 1890
M96 Swede Mauser - 1900
M1917 - 1918
M1903A3 - 1943
M1 Carbine - 1944

 

[WestKentucky]

Most of the guns I own are older than me. I think I could count the guns newer than me one fingers pretty easily… nope. If I count the kids guns then I’m at 12.

 

[Pete D.]

A few. A model 10 S&W, a Mk.VI Webley, an 1873 Trapdoor carbine, a 1876 Martini Henry, an M1, an M1 Carbine.

 

[Ed]

I bet 80% of my guns are older than me. Some are older than my parents and one was made 6 years before my grandfather was born. I like old guns.

 

[LoonWulf]

My Super Blackhawk is 9 years older than me, and my target rifles action is a few years older.