Howdy, One of my favorite is a Model 12 pump shotgun. My grandfather gave it to me back in 1979. It was his barn gun.
He left it out in the barn all the time for unwanted critters. I was looking for a shotgun to go pheasant hunting, he gave me a box of reloaded 12 ga. shells and that old beat up 12 ga. My buddy and I went hunting and I couldn't miss with that, what I thought at that time was a old piece of.... When we got back and showed my grandparents all the game I got. My grandmother said, that's your gun you keep it. My granddad's jaw dropped, but didn't say a word. Later my granddad told me about the gun, 1928 trap shooter model. 25 years ago I took it to my gunsmith and asked him to completely restore it. It has been hanging in my reloading- gun room ever since.
I have used it on a couple pheasant hunts since.