What's the oldest gun you shoot with?

[Brandon Mavericks 18]

Curious as to what the oldest gun you take to matches to shoot?  I love the old guns but budget wise can't afford so have replica's.  I am planning in picking up a nice Winchester 73 at next years Winter Range.  Not for matches but just for collection and non match shooting. 

[Warden Callaway 3,394]

Got a bunch that I shoot occasionally. 

 

 

I've yet to shoot this one in a match.  Colt FSS made in 1881.

 

 

Marlin 1889 in 44WCF.  Shot it in a couple of matches. 

 

 

Original 1887 12 gauge first year manufacture.  Shot it in one match.

 

 

Colt 1878 10 gauge (foreground)  12 gauge (background).  I shot the 10 gauge in a New Year's day match.

 

 

Original Winchester 1873 3rd model in 38WCF.  Shot in one or two matches. 

 

Others...  

[Cliff Hanger #3720LR 500]

1892 Winchester in 32-20 made in 1903.

 

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life 611]

Two Colt .41 Long Colt Thunderers. 1899 Parker 10 gauge double just for fun a few times each year. 

[Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903 1,036]

I don't have any really old guns but Saturday I shot with a shooter who turned 90 a few months ago.

 

Randy

[Dutch Coroner 127]

Not something that got used much, but here's my brother JB Sledge using an original '73 carbine that was made in 1876 or '77.

 

Dutch

[Kid Rich 411]

I have a Winchester '86 in 38/56 that was made in 1891, I've used it in long range side matches. Also have a Colt Lightning in 38/40 that was made in 1891.

kR

[Yul Lose 5,405]

Colt Lightning Rifle made in 1884 in 44-40 and numerous Winchester 16 gauge 1897 shotguns made from 1903-1941.

[Doc X 259]

Shot a few matches with a '97 Winchester made in 1902.

 

[Krazy Kajun 441]

32 minutes ago, Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903 said:

I don't have any really old guns but Saturday I shot with a shooter who turned 90 a few months ago.

 

Randy

I didn't know Lickskillet Charlie had a recent birthday.  Ole Skittles holds up purdy good for his age.

 

Kajun

[Boulder Canyon Bob# 32052L 327]

I just retired my 1872 S&W #3 Russian, I still shot it, just not in matches.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 743]

I am reasonably certain that this is by far and away the oldest gun I've ever shot a match with, and certainly the oldest one I own.

 

 

I am not sure exactly how old it is, or even which model.   As you can see, the model number is obscured.

 

 

It's either a model 63 or a 65.   Serial number is in the 17000 range.   It's a sweet shooter.

 

Edited May 19 by H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619

[Rye Miles #13621 4,661]

2nd Gen Colt 

[Griff 1,170]

My pocket pistols. 

[The Verdigris Kid 16]

I haven't gotten a chance to shoot it yet, but I plan on it soon.

From what I can find, the serial number places it made in 1888 with 34,120 made in Rifle configuration.

[Fence Cutter 486]

1888 S&W for side matches.

 

 

1870s Eclipse for the fun of it.

 

 

 

[Go West 174]

I have a '99 '97 that I shoot now and then. The barrel is pretty rough but Johnny Meadows says the bolt isn't original. What do I know? Mostly I shoot '87's of later manufacture.

[El Mulo Vaquero, SASS #55942 30]

Marlin 1895, mfg 1896.  45-90 caliber

[Smoken D 1,163]

Great-Grandpa's 1884 Trapdoor

Great-Uncle's 1897 12ga 

[Tom Bullweed 202]

Winchester 1873 .32 WCF made in 1890, shot in one CAS match per year.

Remington Model 1878 'Lifter'

 

[Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 975]

Up until two years ago I shot a Hammered "Husky" Double in 16 ga.  made in 1884  at every Match... Now I still shoot it about half the Time ....

 

Jabez Cowboy

[Three Foot Johnson 1,828]

American Arms Fox Patent Sideswing 10g made between 1870 and 1872. Not often, because it's a clumsy thing to shoot, but it gets out a couple times every year.

[Wildcat O'Shea SASS#47844 7]

I've got a pair of new model #3's that i shoot occasionally in matches.  1870's vintage.  But i regularly shoot an 1847 British Coast Guard pistol at the range.  Lots of fun.  My oldest gun.

Wildcat O'Shea

#47844

[bgavin 866]

I'll play the comic relief... 1970s era Charles Daly 500 is my oldest one.
All the rest are 1999 to 2019.

[Waxahachie Kid #17017 L 74]

I have since retired him, to just pasture plinking, but my oldest single action handgun would be a Colt single action, shipped in 1922.

 

The other is for long distance...a model 1895 Winchester, saddle ring carbine, made in 1915.

 

For Wild Bunch fun, I use a 1911 Colt, shipped in 1918.

 

W.K. 

Edited May 20 by Waxahachie Kid #17017 L

[watab kid 366]

i guess my 1887 shogun born in 1909 today , i have an early 1880s pocket/derringer 22 revolver but its more for 'look' - i dont shoot it in matches 

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L 3,798]

I have used a first-year production 1897 (retired)

I currently use an 1887 12ga. dated to that same year.

Danish rolling block action mfg. in 1882

 

[doc roy l. pain 302]

My main match duelist revolvers. First gen Colt Bisleys 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 743]

It's hard to believe that guns made in 1920 are now 100 years old.   

As I see what others are mentioning, it suddenly occurred to me that I have many non antiques that have passed the century mark, or soon will.

Edited May 20 by H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619

[Goody, SASS #26190 810]

Model 1884 Trapdoor. Marlin model 1878 22 revolver.

 

[Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903 1,036]

4 hours ago, Krazy Kajun said:

I didn't know Lickskillet Charlie had a recent birthday.  Ole Skittles holds up purdy good for his age.

 

Kajun

Ole Skittles may be close but I was talking about Deadwood Miner, July 4th we'll celebrate Blue Boys 101st birthday.

 

Randy

[Captain Curly Strait 23]

1886 from 1887 re-chambered to 45-70.  Haven’t been able to shoot it in a match yet, but hope to soon. Besides a new chamber and rifling, it just got new wood.  The old stocks were “shot”.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L 846]

I always shoot an 1891 vintage Winchester 1887 shotgun. I sometimes use either an 1887 manufactured in 1888 or one manufactured in 1897 

 

I often shoot an 1891 vintage Winchester 1873 Musket.

 

I have shot an 1870's vintage Merwin Hulbert,

 

a 1873 vintage S&W First Model Russian,

 

a late 1800's vintage S&W New Model 3.,

 

and two 1897 Winchester shotguns of 1903 and 1908 vintage.

 

I do have two S&W pocket pistols and a Trapdoor Springfield that I have yet to use:

 

A Second Model Safety Hammerless manufactured in 1888,

 

a Second Model DA manufactured in 1880/1881,

 

and the Trapdoor manufactured in 1886.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 20 by Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L

[Abilene, SASS # 27489 672]

Colt 45 made in 1901.  It left the factory as a 4 3/4 38-40.  I've put a couple thousand rounds through it.  These days it gets shot 2 or 3 matches a year.

 

by the way, this is the gun you see in my Avatar, raised in recoil and silhouetted against the flame from the .45 in my right hand

Edited May 20 by Abilene, SASS # 27489

[Hashknife Cowboy 301]

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