My father's father had a Win. 97, that my father used pre WW2. After the war, he bought a Browning A5 12 gauge and later on a Win 101, and a Model 12 Trap and came in to a Rem 1900 from somewhere, which he gave to me. I don't know what happened to the 97, but my uncle's got my Grandfather's Win model 70, some lever guns and a Colt 41 LC. My father still has his shotguns, with the exception of the Model 12 trap, which he gave to my brother.
My mom's father wasn't a shooter or hunter. He did own a Marlin 1881, a Savage lever 30-30, a Win pump 22-possibly a model
1890?, and short little 22 single shot all of which he got from his uncle. These were given to me (1881), my older brother(Savage), a cousin(pump 22) and the single shot 22 to my younger brother.
My folks have a few early photos of either my grandmother's uncles or brother's with a variety of game and birds and three or four firearms-a couple of which are hammer doubles. I've tried to figure out what the doubles are, but those early photos aren't real sharp, so no luck in IDing the guns to this point. It would be interesting to know what happened to those guns.
