I didn't know where else to put this so I put it here.
What are your top 10 picks for guns with a sole? When you pick them up they say something to you? These might be guns you don't own but still say something to you.

#10- any old sxs shotgun.
#9- any double rifle.
#8- a old traditional Muzzleloader
#7- a winchester Model 12
#6- a winchester lever action made before 1900
#5- a old Colt 1911 45 auto
#4- any Winchester Mod 70 Pre64 in original cond
#3- a M1 Garand
#2- a Colt SAA pre 1900
#1- A original Sharps buffalo rifle.

do you mean "soul?"

I've never had gun talk to me. It's all in your head.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
I've never had gun talk to me. It's all in your head.

Yeah, the only voices I hear are the ones telling me to stay home and clean the guns ..

Ken....

I've had more than one scream BUY ME! BUY ME! BUY ME! As I walked past.

i know mine get mad if i dont take them out and play with them.

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Originally posted by miles58:
I've had more than one scream BUY ME! BUY ME! BUY ME! As I walked past.

I can relate to that!!!!
More than once too...

Don

Let me play along here..
Winchester Model 12's, and 42's.
Ballards.
Winchester Low Walls.
Springfield Sporters.
Winchester Model 52 Sporters.
Winchester Model 94's.
Remington Model 37's.
Remington Model 31's.
Colt Python's.
Colt Woodsman's
Older Marlin Model 39's, with Octagon Barrels and case hardened receivers.
All the rifles in Michael Petrov's Book.
The two Rifles being raffled off on the Gunsmithing Forum here on Accurate Reloading. They are steeped in Soul!!!!!


Don

That list works for me.

Parker and Fox sxs's...

Farquharsons

Model 12 any flavor.
Model 52 any flavor (75 included)
1922 Springfield
'03-A3
L.C. Smith case hardened receiver and Damascus barrels
Model 21
Model 94, 30-30 or a 336 30-30
Winchester 54
Winchester 70
Darne 20 ga

1. A Pennsylvania Rifle
2. A Thompson SMG
3. An M1 Garand
4. Any Double Rifle

The gun that got me started. A Winchester model 67 single shot .22. Many wonderful memories afield as a boy. This rifle is a part of my soul.

Particularly remember a 97 Winchester that touched my soul....deeply and for ever...

While not for everyone, and when it speaks the message may not be the same for all, but a Weatherby Mark V in any caliber will stop me in my tracks.

Guns with soul....

Absolute #1: Pre-war Mausers. Those built from 1891 to 1914 and those from 1922 to 1940. Wow!

Martini Henry rifles

Single shot cartridge rifles of the 1870's and 1880's

Spencer rifles

All pre-64 Model 70's. For that matter, most pre-64 Winchester rifles.

Browning firearms pre Jap

High Standard .22 pistols

Smith & Wesson handguns back when they were made with pride

Early Rugers

Colt Pythons

Any Remington 700 variant that shoots sub MOA

Early Weatherby rifles or those later ones that shoot sub MOA

any thing in a winchester 1895

Old Lee-Enfield .303's. And a recent 9.3x74R Chapuis double.

Winchester 1885. I would love a low wall in 22 hornet with a tang sight.
The Silver Lining Scholarship rifle.
Any and all really nice bolt action .22 rimfires. The Cooper Jackson Squirrel rifle comes to mind.
Springfield M14's
Kimber full size 1911's
Smith and Wesson Mountain gun in .44
A limited number of S&W model 19's that I believe were made for Floriday Highway Patrol that had a 3 inch barrel
Browning A5's
High end double barrel shotguns both over under and sxs.
Cooper Varmint Extreme any caliber. Thats probably enough for now but there are more. DW

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Originally posted by dwheels:
Winchester 1885. I would love a low wall in 22 hornet with a tang sight.
DW

A big AMEN! That rifle makes goose bumps go up and down my back. They are BEAUTIFUL beyond words.

Don

Older, beat up and still dead on work good for me.

Idaho folks just have an eye for the good guns...I can't think of anything he left out except the great old Savage 99, and I'm sure he just forgot to add that one...

Ray, that would have been number 11. Ron

Yep, I forgot about Winchester Model 21's when I made my list above. Winchester 21's in 20 gage, with 28" tubes are about as good as it gets for bird hunting.
They sure tug on my soul...

Don

Ray beat me to it.
Might add the 1st run of 94 Marlins as well.

Good list. I would include the Model 71 Winchester. For Handguns my pick would be the S&W Pre29 (.44 Magnum Model)

If any body cares my list
1.) Any box lock 450+ caliber double rifle, sidelocks just don't do it for me
2.) Any Beretta Over and Under
3.) Any big bore with a quarter rib, a barrel band and a barrel band front sight
4.) Browning A bolt rifles/shotguns, specifically the synthetic stocked ones
5.) Rifles chambered in Ultra Mag cartridges
6.) Christensen Arms rifles
7.) Ruger Bisleys
8.) 1911 with a flat mainspring housing
9.) Steyr SSG with the green stock
10.) Any stainless steel rifle in a straight grained walnut stock

What can I say, I have "differant" taste

My list would include.

1. Colt Woodsman, older model.
2. Pre 64 M70 Featherweights
3. Mannlicher Schoenauer full stocked carbines
4. Rifles chambered in .358 Win.
5. Drillings
6. 99 Savage
7. S&S guns
8. Scheutzens
9. High Wall Winchesters original only
10 SAA Colts

Some old guns at the range this week.

I can agree with a lot on these lists but wouldn't you have to say that any gun you've had lots of great memories with is also a gun with a soul???



Back to #1 on the original list I spent more than I care to admit getting an old hammer SxS (Remington 1889) in safe shooting condition that my grandfather bought for $3.50 in 1930. It's still really ugly and I don't shoot it terribly well (rediculous amount of drop in the stock) but I grin like an idiot everytime I hunt with it and now it's my primary hunting gun just because it's so cool.

Kyler

Well, this list wouldn't be right without the wonderfull little Brnos 21 and 22, now would it?

I've been half assed thinking about this thread since it was first posted. Besides the usual suspects like pre-64 Model 70's and Pre-War Rigby's I thought of the
Colt 1911, Browning Superposed, Winchester '85, '86, '94.... One thing that became apparent was the common designer inventor, John Moses Browning. Any firearm that man put from concept to production has soul.

Not sure about a gun with sole... but here is a phone with sole

Isn't Sole a fish? I have never used a gun to fish.

I don't know if it has soul, but a Man just has to have a lever action deer rifle. Preferably in 30-30.

Any firearm with history!

An old Berreta Silver Pigeon I have taken many Mallards with in my long lost youth.

My M70 Safari Express in 416 Rem Mag used on my first Safari in the Selous. Took plains game and a Buffalo.

My Krieghoff 470 NE that took care of business when 2 buff wanted to play in the long grass while on a cull hunt.

And any old doulble rifle that shows the signs of heavy usage. Was it used in Africa? Maybe India? If it could talk!

Single shot Stevens 22 (from my grandfather)
Remington 11-48 12 gauge (from my father)
Marlin 30-30 (from my father-in-law)
S & W 357 mag (from my brother)
.257 Wby Mag (from my son-in-law)
Jukar .45 smoke pole (from my wife) I put it together myself

I love guns, but these have special meaning because they were given to me by special people.