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Going into the outdoors with my grandpa made for some of my fondest childhood memories. ItвЂ™s far from being a very old or rare gun, but this Model 48 Topper means a lot to me. Model 48 Topper PatrickвЂ™s single-shot 16-gauge. Maybe he was tugging at my shirtsleeves and leading me into the store that day, to give me that gun for the second time now that I am old enough to appreciate it. It feels like Uncle Jerry is tagging along, and brings back many memories of a better world that I lived in so long ago. I take the old gal grouse hunting each fall and always seem to have good luck when I am carrying it. I had a gunsmith replace some springs and open the choke. Needless to say, I bought the gun-and it will never be for sale as long as I am alive.

I knew it was the same gun because I remembered some of the marks on the stock. As I was browsing the used gun rack, my eyes came to rest on that old shotgun, looking forlorn and unwanted. While spending time with family in Lansing during Christmas in 2015, I stopped at Classic Arms. I always felt bad about selling that gun, especially after Uncle Jerry passed away. It was my only shotgun for many years, but eventually I sold it as I began a career as a Michigan conservation officer and moved to northern Michigan. In 1963, when I was 15 years old and growing up in Lansing, Mich., my Uncle Jerry had me do a few odd jobs for him, and as payment he presented me with a Stevens Model 94 16-gauge-an old single shot shotgun with a Tenite synthetic stock. Stevens Model 94 This vintage Stevens single shot still does a number on the grouse each fall. What follows is a list of some of our favorite Blasts From the Past.

Without question, though, the best and most priceless guns in this collection are the heirloom rifles and shotguns that have been in families for generations-passed down from fathers to sons to grandsons-and are still used in the woods during hunting season every fall.

If you were to gather all of the firearms together into one massive gun safe, you would arguably have the greatest, most enviable collection of guns in the world, including classic rifles, fine shotguns, and even a couple truly rare guns (the Fly Gun?).

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For more than two years on The Gun Nuts, readers have been sending us submissions for our series of vintage firearms, Blast From the Past.