My current favorite is not something to shoot every day but it really handles beautifully.



Double barrel 16 gauge made in Ithaca NY after Lefever was acquired by Ithaca.
 

Thanks, I like the simplicity and patina of the thing. 16 gauge has fallen out of favor but I feel like its a good size. Long term I may have to see about a lighter load since it's so old.

Pete's Step-Dad gave it to me the year before he died. It was his Dad's.The floor is actually the ceiling downstairs... unfinished business.

Those flintlock cavalry pistols are freaking gorgeous

Are they pretty accurate?

The Double Eagle .45 APC my buddy bought in 1995, and when he died his widow brought me his guns saying he'd told her to give them to me. I couldn't just let her give them away so  I looked up the going price for them and paid her more than she would have gotten from even an honest buyer.
Some strange stuff like a pearl handled Colt .32 automatic that has both Colt and Browning patent numbers on it, the first generation Smith & Wesson pistol, and  government issue Navy flare gun his dog used for a chew toy... often.

Pretty serious. Hopefully unnecessary in Vermont. Pete has been taking lessons on the Ithaca pump just in case rural PA melts down Nov. 3rd.

I was able to carry pretty much what I wanted in Vietnam and for a while I had a 12 gauge, make not remembered, but Browning semi-auto seems probable.
I never saw a bayonet for one.
I hope the statute of limitations are up and I can admit that I had my mother send me rifled slugs (marked as cookies) since the Army would not issue them.

I may as well show the Featherlight.

Big Sarge wrote:

Erika - Is the Beretta a Bobcat or Tomcat? You have a good selection of defensive weapons. BTW, do you have much ammo stockpiled?

It's a Tomcat; i've only got a hundred or so rounds for it, and hardly any for the AR since its so expensive right now. I've got more than plenty for the 7.62's tho.

Big Sarge wrote:

Diaphone Jim - In Iraq, we had Mossberg 500 pumps for breaching. On my first tour, we too were allowed to carry anything we could get our hands-on. I liberated a Sterling Mk4 submachinegun and rigged a paracord single point sling for it.

It's crazy how weapons get around, Peaking at wiki, I guess yours was Iraqi?

I was poking around in the big safe yesterday and discovered a holster that was being eaten by mildew like that dead blow hammer was. Pulled everything out but didn't find anymore signs of it. Now with everything out I says to myself, self says I, you should photograph everything and meld the pictures with the big file of paperwork into an accurate inventory. By the time I'm done I'll have forgotten what I was supposed to be doing.