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On another thread, people were talking about guns with provenance. I'm not talking about Hitler's Walther or something goofy like that.
But many of us who have gone beyond the basics of gun ownership (us "super" gun-owners), have bought guns just because they have a cool story from the person we got them from. No actual provenance, just a cool story.
I have a couple. I had a CZ Model 45 in .25acp. The story I had was that a gentleman who worked in Eastern Europe after WWII took it from an East German counterpart after a lethal encounter. Perhaps far fetched, but it was not import marked, not very expensive, and even the chance of the story being true was worth it.
The second gun was actually just a 1903 Springfield receiver and parts. A gentleman contacted me out of the blue from across the country and said he had a 1903 receiver his father had liberated in Suhl, Germany (home of the German small arms industry) late in WWII. It was a pretty fantastic story, and when I looked up the names and the unit yearbook, everything fit. It is a receiver that I will someday build into a nice rifle and likely won't sell, as the story of where it had been and where it came from is just awesome. When I build the gun, I'm going to type out the story and roll it up in the buttstock of the rifle.
What guns have you bought just for the story, whether provable or not?
But many of us who have gone beyond the basics of gun ownership (us "super" gun-owners), have bought guns just because they have a cool story from the person we got them from. No actual provenance, just a cool story.
I have a couple. I had a CZ Model 45 in .25acp. The story I had was that a gentleman who worked in Eastern Europe after WWII took it from an East German counterpart after a lethal encounter. Perhaps far fetched, but it was not import marked, not very expensive, and even the chance of the story being true was worth it.
The second gun was actually just a 1903 Springfield receiver and parts. A gentleman contacted me out of the blue from across the country and said he had a 1903 receiver his father had liberated in Suhl, Germany (home of the German small arms industry) late in WWII. It was a pretty fantastic story, and when I looked up the names and the unit yearbook, everything fit. It is a receiver that I will someday build into a nice rifle and likely won't sell, as the story of where it had been and where it came from is just awesome. When I build the gun, I'm going to type out the story and roll it up in the buttstock of the rifle.
What guns have you bought just for the story, whether provable or not?
