What is the oldest gun....

[superdown]

You have taken game with? It doesn't matter if it was small game,varmint or big game.I would just like to know the make,model and cartridge used and a picture if possible. thanks I forgot to ask that i would also like to know what animal was taken

[tgomez]

A US caliber 30 model of 1917 30-06. Made in November of 1917 sportarized, original barrel, rebuked, re-finished wood.

[biggfish]

My marlin 336 made in 1976 its 10 years older than me.

[AWS]

An English 16ga Muzzle loader converted to breech loader here in the US before the turn of the century.  Proof marks are obscured so hard to date, 1840 to 1900.  I hunted with it in the 1960's with many ducks, pheasants, grouse, and woodcock to its credit.  I knew nothing of Damascus or chamber lengths and ran JC Higgins high brass, paper cased, roll crimped #5's through it, it never missed a beat.  It graces my sisters living room wall with other memorabilia of turn of the century northern WI.  Her home is the Weyerhauser managers house and her old store was the original Weyerhauser company store from the early logging days in WI.

[Russ McDonald]

I have a single shot .44 that someone smoothed out the grooves and now shoots .410 made late 1800's.  Granddad handed down to me when I was growing up.  Shot plenty of grouse, rabbit and squirrels with it.

[Bill W]

Model 1898 .30/40 Krag.  Shot my first deer with it.

[RadSav]

1923 Savage 99 takedown in 250-3000.  Killed a couple deer and a half dozen bear with it.  My grandmother killed a 55" moose with it back in the 70's.  Wife killed her first 450# bear with it.  It has been a great shooter, but now retired.

[TONTO]

 '02 remington rolling block .22lr take down. Have taken lots of grouse with it and knocked many a coon out of the tree back when I was running my hounds

[JimmyHoffa]

1923 Savage 99 takedown in 250-3000.  Killed a couple deer and a half dozen bear with it.  My grandmother killed a 55" moose with it back in the 70's.  Wife killed her first 450# bear with it.  It has been a great shooter, but now retired.

I'm using the same, but not sure the year.  Fun to shoot, but with the 1/14" twist and the scarcity of reloading components kind of hard to take it out much.

[724wd]

my 1928 Win Model 12 16 ga is a turkey whacking machine!   

[superdown]

Thanks for the responses guy's very cool guns  I find it really interesting to hear about these old firearms.I haven't taken any game with any really old guns the oldest rifle i have taken game with is my dads 1985 BLR in .358win I took a whitetail buck two years ago it was a cool feeling to take a deer with my dads first and only deer rifle bought the year i was born especially since my 14 day old son was on that hunting trip with us also

[DOUBLELUNG]

Model 94 Winchester .30/30 made in 1945.  Handed down from my grandfather to my uncle to me. 

[AWS]

This is the shotgun I've been hunting ducks with for the past couple years.  Husqvarna 51, in production from 1911 to 1947.  Still works just fine,  ammo is the challenge, handloaded 12ga 2.5" soft nontoxics.

[RadSav]

handloaded 12ga 2.5" soft nontoxics.

Does that mean the tungsten filled plastic shot?

[AWS]

It's BP's ITX shot which is listed as tungsten/iron with a propriety binder(maybe plastic), it works very good and from the recovered shot doesn't deform or fracture.  I've used Nice Shot also but it is more expensive and I find no improvement.  There is Bismuth shot that I've used in factory shells but never handloaded as it is also more expensive and I see no improvement over ITX.

The costs are about $35/box but my round count is way down from steel out of a modern gun.  I believe that is more due to waiting for better shots and passing on the marginal ones, for the same reason I have far fewer cripples that need to be shot on the water.  Suprisingly my bird count for the season has stayed the same or actually gone up.