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It’s a cold, wet and windy day, so instead of going to the range I’m taking a group shot of some guns I wish I was taking to the range.

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Remington Model 10 12 gauge

Browning Superposed 12 gauge

Winchester Model 12 12 gauge

Winchester Model 90 .22 Short

Savage Model 1903 .22

Winchester Model 1907 .351 Winchester

Husqvarna Model 46 9.3x57mm Mauser

My favourite .22 rifle. One of very few detachable magazine fed pump action .22s ever made, it even manages to reliable feed Shorts, Longs and Long Rifles from the same mag.

I’ve had this for several years - it’s a Soviet M91/30 PU sniper rifle made at Ishevsk in 1943 - you can identify it as a real sniper rifle by the scope serial number on the left side of the chamber. The scope is also a real wartime PU, one of the aluminum alloy ones made at Factory 393, although the markings have unfortunately been removed during a rebuild. This is a rebuild and the scope and rifle almost certainly aren’t original to each other, but it still beats the reproductions you normally see on the market.

If you ever have a chance to shoot one of these it’s quite the experience - the reticle actually moves in your field of view to adjust it and the scope is only 3.5 power, and is mounted so high it’s really more of a chin weld than a cheek weld. Pretty terrible by modern standards but then they managed to mass produce them under wartime conditions, and quantity had a quality all its own.

These were used in place of coinage on US bases during the War on Terror - I was a Canadian at Kandahar Airfield and the whole base ran on US currency, including these. Just curious if anyone collects them, I swear everyone I know that went overseas has a box full of them somewhere.

Recently picked this one up - it’s a very cool gun if you’re deep into your American side by side shotgun lore. The AH Fox gun company, founded by Ansley H Fox, was one of the great American shotgun makers, and their main competitor was Parker Brothers (not the board game company). Parker was the oldest and most established of the high end American shotgun makers, founded in the 1860s, whereas Fox was an upstart founded in 1906.

The Sterlingworth was Fox’s intro level gun, priced at $25, whereas their graded guns started with the A Grade at $50. Ansley Fox didn’t even want to make an economy grade gun and had to be forced into it by the company’s backers.

This is one of the very first Sterlingworth’s made, and what makes it unique is it has a recessed hinge pin and rounded frame contour, both of which are features associated with Parkers. Foxes normally have a flush hinge pin and a distinct pointed receiver contour - you can see a comparison with my A Grade in the last picture.

What all this means is Fox made the original Sterlingworth, a gun he didn’t want to make, look like his main competitors guns instead of his own. And I find that very funny. These features, known as “Pin Guns” to Fox enthusiasts, were only used for a couple of years before the Sterlingworth was changed to match the rest of the Fox line.

Picked up this Winchester Model 12 at a gunshow last weekend. 1922 production,

12 gauge, with 30” barrel. They quite literally don’t make them like this anymore.

Just picked this up at a recent auction, I own a few Husqvarna sporting guns now and I’m always really impressed by the quality and how cheap they are on the used market. This one would originally have been chambered for 2 1/2” shells but has had the forcing cones opened up for 2 3/4”. It’s surprisingly trim and light even if the barrels are on the heavier side, I look forward to getting it out to the trap club.

Picked this up on a whim at an auction recently - a very cool old late 19th century 10 gauge side lever double. It’s a bit of a mystery as to the manufacturer as there are actually two different makers who marked their guns W Richards. In England William Richards was a cousin of the famous Westley Richards (one of the great British gunmakers) who marked his guns W Richards - and he could hardly be held responsible if people mistook his guns for Westley’s. And then a Belgian firm started marking their cheap import guns W Richards, making them basically a copy of a copy.

I figured this was Belgian when I got it but surprised to find that in spite of its twist steel barrels it was actually reproofed in Birmingham for nitro shells post WW2. They unfortunately polished off the original proofs doing so, so now I can’t be sure. The gun unfortunately has a broken left hammer and a dent in the right barrel, but it’s otherwise tight and in good shape. With the nitro proofs I think it would actually be a shooter if I got it fixed up.