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| Above, the Winchester 94 made the list (of course). Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Some guns have been around for so long that, without even trying, have become classics.
Guns that have done so include pistols, rifles and shotguns. The Avid Outdoorsman lists 20 guns that have been around long enough to stop being fashionable and start being classic. I have three that made the list.
They begin their list with:
Every few years the gun world picks a new “must-have” and acts like everything before it belongs in a museum. Then hunting season rolls around, a buddy’s “latest and greatest” starts acting up in the cold, and the old standby in the scuffed case quietly does the job again. That’s when you realize some guns don’t age into irrelevance. They age into classics.
These are the ones that have been carried long enough to get boring in a gun shop display, but familiar enough that most of us can run them without thinking. Some are pricey now, some are still cheap, and a few are a little clunky by modern standards. Still, they’ve earned the kind of respect that doesn’t come from a marketing campaign.
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