My old shotgun.

[enfieldspares]

Just come down from the loft doing some reloading and came across this. Which I'd "put out" meaning to do somethimng with and then forgotten about.

This is my late father in maybe the late 1920s (he was born in 1907) with the Henry Clarke gun that he owned. The gun was a twelfth birthday present to him in 1919. And, yes, I still have it and, yes, I shoot with it. The last time just before Christmas 2025 on clays in 2023 on pheasants.

The gun I have pictured here before. The last picture is me using it at Stapleford Park pre-covid.

 

[Hambone]

Fair play the family resemblance is striking!

 

[Rhodesianjess]

I load for a gentleman who once a season uses his grandfather guns. A pair of 1906 Perks boxlock ejectors.
They're used in Grandads memory and then back in the gunroom.
Lovely way to remember late family.

 

[enfieldspares]

My oh my. I just made this using AI.

https://media.invisioncic.com/r3339....mp4.eb9392a87171504d8423b8dec058497a.mp4#t=0

 

[Squirrelbasher]

Great photo and story, thanks for sharing

 

[Smellydog]

Your father looks like he is waiting for something to arrive!
Thanks for sharing.

 

[CookM]

Your father looks like he is waiting for something to arrive!
Thanks for sharing.

Was a tiger eating the villagers?

 

[enfieldspares]

Was a tiger eating the villagers?

Your father looks like he is waiting for something to arrive!
Thanks for sharing.

A fox. Or so I believe.

 

[CookM]

A fox apparently or so I believe.

I get the same look,luckily no tigers near me.

 

[enfieldspares]

This is from the Marine Hotel at Frieston Shore. The names of the two lads are lost to us. But the lady in the black dress is my Great Grandmother.

 

[CookM]

This is from the Marine Hotel at Frieston Shore. The names of the two lads are lost to us. But the lady in the black dress is my Great Grandmother.

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They have been busy.

 

[sh1kar]

You’re either wearing incredibly well or your father had you later in life. Great photos

 

[enfieldspares]

You’re either wearing incredibly well or your father had you later in life. Great photos

Later in life. I was twenty-nine when he died.

Meantime I got carried away with all this AI and had the two lads shooting down German biplanes attacking the hotel. Fortunately my band use limit then ran out. But it is interesting what can be done now beyond the pornography that we all were warned about in Parliament this week just gone. If you are small in what you want the video to do it stays fairly faithful to the original still picture you uploaded.

 

[Mr. Gain]

My oh my. I just made this using AI.

https://media.invisioncic.com/r3339....mp4.eb9392a87171504d8423b8dec058497a.mp4#t=0

"Oh, my" indeed.
(Now what am I going to do with this lump in my throat.)