Question of the Day: What’s the Oldest Gun You Own?

By Robert Farago

“A superb Parker side-by-side ‘Lifter Gun’ manufactured in the heart of Gun Valley in 1869 has been restored to new condition to serve as the 2016 SHOT Show Auction ‘Western Heritage’ shotgun available for viewing and bidding on www.GunBroker.com,” the pre-SHOT Show presser proclaims. [Full text after the jump.] Huh. I reckon there are non-functional historical pieces that should stay that way. But I totally get the thrill of firing a historical piece. It’s visceral ballistic time travel. What’s the oldest gun you own? If it’s functional, how does it make you feel to fire it? . . .

USA – (Ammoland.com)- A superb Parker side-by-side “Lifter Gun” manufactured in the heart of Gun Valley in 1869 has been restored to new condition to serve as the 2016 SHOT Show Auction “Western Heritage” shotgun and is currently available for viewing and bidding on www.GunBroker.com.

The special “Western Heritage” shotgun combines the history of a Parker Brothers shotgun from 1879 with the renowned artisanship and “history recreation” of Turnbull Manufacturing. Turnbull has taken this historic “Lifter Gun” and brought it back to the condition in which it would have left Parker’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns