50+ Year Wait For This Gun

[doc540]

My dad, at 92, finally handed down to me his Daisy Model 40 Defender BB gun. I think he got it in 1932.

Sling and bayonet are long gone, but it still shoots hard.

[C-dub]

Very cool!

My dad still has the Daisy I shot as a kid, but it does little more than roll out of the barrel.

[nyj]

Awesome!

[doc540]

Thanks

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When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!

[jedwil]

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When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!
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Great picture. Thank him for his service. Nice BB gun.

[RogueUSMC]

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When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!
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ROCK ON!...shake his hand for me...heck give him a hug...

[RoyGBiv]

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When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!
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Thanks for the smile this gave me...

[Seventhsword]

That is awesome!

[RogueUSMC]

BTW, did he fly ETO or PTO?

[puma guy]

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Not many of these guys left.

When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!
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Cool rifle , Doc. I know you'll cherish all the memories attached to it. That's a great photo of you father. Please, Thank him for his service.
His generation was truly the Greatest and we're losing them far too fast. Mine passed in 2011. Even though he became wheelchair bound he was still practicing two months before falling ill and passing at 93. There's something about that generation that is rare.
I have my dad's Fox Sterlingworth he bought at Abercrombie and Fitch and had fitted by their gunsmith. He was hunting with it and his beagles the morning of Pearl Harbor.

[68Charger]

I have my dad's Fox Sterlingworth he bought at Abercrombie and Fitch and had fitted by their gunsmith. He was hunting with it and his beagles the morning of Pearl Harbor.

Wow, did you say he bought it at Abercrombie and Fitch? Before it was a major well known clothing store, as it is now, I'm sure. Interesting to hear someone got something there before it went to .. Well.. You know.

[puma guy]

I have my dad's Fox Sterlingworth he bought at Abercrombie and Fitch and had fitted by their gunsmith. He was hunting with it and his beagles the morning of Pearl Harbor.

Wow, did you say he bought it at Abercrombie and Fitch? Before it was a major well known clothing store, as it is now, I'm sure. Interesting to hear someone got something there before it went to .. Well.. You know.

Yeah A&B was one of the most famous sporting goods store and outfitters in the world. Main store was in Manhattan. A fellow my dad met in the woods mentored him in shotguns and shooting and took him to A&B to buy the SG and get it fitted. It doesn't fit me well as I have much longer arms than my dad, but I got to use it on a quail hunt as a teenager. I had the hang tag from it but I lost it somewhere. The man (Jack) was a champion shooter, outdoors radio personality and owned the largest upholstery and rug cleaning business in Hartford , Conn. He taught shooting to aerial gunners in the Army Air Corp when WWII broke out> Jack lost an eye in an accident while teaching. I got to meet him twice and he was a really nice guy and had a million stories. Abercrombie and Fitch finally went out of business and Oshman's bought the name in 1978 and sold outdoor clothing under the name and then sold it The Limited who turned it into .. Well....you know.

On another note , when I was a kid I took my dad's A&B lemonwood longbow and some bamboo arrows made by headhunters in Assam India and used them for target practice. I got a whuppin' when I broke the bow.

[doc540]

Found a repro sling, but the repro bayonets are out of my budget for now.

[mr surveyor]

Doc, you should send those pictures to Daisy