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My DE Lefever, it's a beautiful gun. I'd even get rid of my pinfires.
Currently own two Morgan cars. Starting on Black Powder hunting to advoid the mob of riflemen.
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I would keep a high condition Model 42, preferably with Cutts or more than one barrel assembly. It is the only gun that I know I could physically handle after all others would be "put away". I'm 61 now and have 81 looking me in the eye. A full choke 42 would be sufficient for preserve pheasants and a lighter choked 42 would be wonderful for skeet, quail, sporting clays, and anything an 81 or 91 year old gun freak would be likely to be able to do. My "user friendly" pigeon club also includes a .410 event every few weeks also, so all bases are covered. Of course, if the choice also included a .410 Parker Skeet or a .410 Purdey, my answer may change.
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Mahillon Cased 2 barrel set, 12b SxS shotgun, 16b SxS rifle
This could take care of all my hunting interests (of a long gun) as well as provide monumental handling/shooting/admiring pleasures.
It's a peach.
--Tinker
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Believe it or not, I actually was confronted with this dilemma several years ago. After careful deliberation, I got rid of the wife and was able to keep all 18 of my shotguns. Best decision I ever made!
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The one that fits best, that lines up with my eyes and for all the glory and tradition which makes my venerated guns so valuable to me that gun now in my declining years is my 20ga IC/M SKB.
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A very interesting question. I have thought long and hard about it and have decided without reservation that the one gun I would have to "save" would be my grandfather's single shot Steven's Model 94 w/ 20 and .410 barrels. No, this is by no means the 'best' gun I own, but it is the one I would keep. Most of the others are replaceable even though I would miss them very much as they all have memories attached to them, but the old Steven's represents too much to lose.
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Pre-war solid rib 28" 16ga M12 field, choked full. Fits like an old girlfriend, but lighter - at 6 lb 11 oz. No useful pattern dimension I can't get with factory loads and a reloading press.
But when I'm Bill's age I'll go with the M42. Geez, that's not that far off. And at current rates of appreciation I may not be able to afford to buy back a M42 skeet gun........yup, maybe I should go with that M42 right now.
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It would be my Philly 12g. Sterlingworth.
Rustic duck blind opulence, at it's best!
...but thats farmer Glenthorne speaking.
Last edited by Lowell Glenthorne; 04/04/07 07:20 PM.
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My Sauer 16. It is tough and a good all round gun. I shoot several other guns better but the bottom line is my wife gave me that one as a wedding present, I could never part with it.
I'd probably bury the 870 I got on my 16th birthday in the yard and claim I only had one.
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Number 35071. It left Munchen proof house in February of 1992. Made under one hof from strong Krupp Special Steel. Some of you gents are quite smart leaving those old gems. Who knows, they may even be safe from Hillary's wrath! 
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