Oldest bit of kit you are still using

[sh1kar]

I have just added up the combined ages of the contents of my cabinet and it comes to 1000 years or there abouts.

Wine cellar?

 

[VSS]

Wine cellar?

I was thinking perhaps he kept his rifles in the family crypt.

 

[308rws]

My Buffalo 6 shirt purchased in the PRI shop in 1986.

 

[old keeper]

When I was in National Service I made some pigeon decoys out of 7lb marmalade tins, still use them now and them over sixty years later.

 

[Dalua]

Discounting things that were old when I bought/was given them (i.e. most of my gear) it is the Brady Sandringham game-bag I bought from Richards in Liverpool in '84 or '85. I have a Gamefair and a Solway Zipper jacket bought about the same time, which although much mended still see active service occasionally.

 

[norma 308]

A Ross draw scope gifted by an old mate & my old Sako L61R in 270 are about the oldest

 

[Brno2e]

I was thinking perhaps he kept his rifles in the family crypt.

True blood.

 

[bogtrotter]

Oh forgot my air rifles a customised 1970s BSA Airsporter in mint condition and a 1939 BSA Lincoln Jefferies
In well.used but still in working condition purchased at auction by my brother some years ago ex RAF used
to shoot feral pigeons in aircraft hangers during war time.

Oh and I still have a pair of hill shoes bought in the 1960s been retacketed a few times not worn much these days
but still get an outing now and again on fair weather Grouse days.

 

[landkeeper]

a braided leather rifle sling i bought in the early 80s its been used on every rifle i have owned ,a yeoman i bought new in 86 , an olt fox call from the early 80s and an old optonix black eye lamp for spotting and a smaller gun mounted blue eye

 

[JockStalk]

Pair of helly Hansen fibrepile socks from the early 80s. Nothing better to put tired wet feet into at the end of a long day. Bliss.

 

[SDC7x57]

Lots of old stuff still floating around.....sold my 1910 Woodward SLE a couple of years ago - mistake . Still have a 1903 butterknife Mannlicher with a 7x57 barrel and the rotary mag - she gets a run out regularly. Really, my most used piece of kit is an early Kershaw knife which I've had for 40 years+ and is still the go-to blade.

 

[Rob-E]

My Binos are a set of Zeiss my dad bought in East Berlin, my side by side was my grandads and dates back to 1906.

 

[Wessex4291]

My Buffalo 6 shirt purchased in the PRI shop in 1986.

Not as old as yours, but mines a buffalo shirt from 2007, good to know that it should last a while longer!

 

[MoggyM]

1902 Militia Air rifle
1889 Schmidt Rubin

 

[Deermanagement]

Ditto the Tikka , mine is an M65 , heavy fluted Bofors barrel.

Ditto ditto the Tikka. Only ever bought 2 rifles from new, so this is "in with the new, stick with the old". Bought the .243 M55 in '82 and only ever used it as a second rifle, hence the condition. Fitted it with the Z6i last year and it's now the spring/summer roe rifle.

 

[User00040]

Ditto ditto the Tikka. Only ever bought 2 rifles from new, so this is "in with the new, stick with the old". Bought the .243 M55 in '82 and only ever used it as a second rifle, hence the condition. Fitted it with the Z6i last year and it's now the spring/summer roe rifle.

The old Tikka is what a sporting rifle should look like!

 

[antsa]

Would be my Sako AI .222 from the late 1970s. Unfortunately the cocking piece on the end of the firing pin snapped last Thursday. Fortunately Beretta Aus had a complete firing pin assembly in stock! It's winging its way to me now.

Cheers

 

[McKenzie]

Paul Webley hammer gun with Purdey thumb-hole opening mechanism. Built between 1870 & 1885. It's been sleeved & Teagued & it still gets taken for the odd day at the pheasants & still wins clay completion for me if I'm on form.

 

[Jagare]

My 1979 Heym-Ruger falling block and its gun slip. Both done thousands of outings. The gun slip made by, Quality gun slips went back to them for a refurd a few years ago and still has plenty of life in it. A pair of Optolyth 9x63 Royal binos that must be 40 years old that now spend their retirement on my office desk so i can watch the deer out the back of the house. Not forgetting my $9 dollar Imperial Eagle knife i bought in the USA in 1978. That little knife has done a lot of deer.

 

[Tim.243]

Have you all beat hands down...

Piece of flint my Dad used as a door stop....circa a very old bit of kit...



Tim.243