Rescuing a Relic: When Is An Old Gun Too Far Gone to Save?

By David LaPell

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Sometimes you have to wonder when you run across an old gun, one that has seen better days, if it is worth saving. We have all seen the old guns in the shop; many relegated to the term “wall hanger” long past its prime and best left to be seen and remembered.

I remember the old double-barrel shotgun that used to hang over my grandfather’s fireplace, it belonged to his grandfather and dated back to at least the 1840s. One of my cousins was the last to use it some thirty-plus years ago.

The last I remember seeing it, the stock had cracked in a couple of places, but it was still somewhat functional but was long past its time. Sometimes guns like that are best remembered fondly, like echoes from the past. I have a Sharps four barreled derringer that is no longer safe to use; it’s an earlier gun so we’re talking sometime in the 1860s for sure and it came out of Montana. Did it belong to a gambler, some dandy who didn’t have a way to …Read the Rest

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