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Most Prized Posession?

mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
Alright, what is your most prized posession? Something that all of your close friends know that you have, because you show it off, or brag on it on occasion. Let's leave out any guns, we have covered that, and lets not include family members (my kids). Just sitting here thinking, I would have to say that mine would be the Ka-Bar that my Dad carried through two tours of Nam. If I think long enough I could come up with some others, grandpa's tackle box, but lets try to limit it to one.

IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My entertainment center which consists of, this computer, a 6 piece component stereo system with 4 Fisher 15" dual woofer speakers, 2 vcr's, satalite tv signal, scanner, video camera and digital camera all tapped into the computer and a collection of over 3000 mp3's and 1800 music video's. When it comes to music or television I can do it all right here on this computer at the push of a button. Took quite a bit of cash and time to get it all hooked up and get the different pieces of hardware and the software to all work together. I show this off every chance I get, all I do is have whoever I'm showing to sit down beside me and I crank up a good music video, fire up the stereo and the sub system and rattle the house. I dare someone to have a louder computer!
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    First place - My Harley

    Second place - My Taylor guitar

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a book on kayaking the belonged to Theodore Roosevelt. It's not so much the book as the man who owned it. When I hold the book in my hands I become somewhat awestruck realizing the impact that man had on the United States and the world. Beach
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  • Jungle JimJungle Jim Member Posts: 264 ✭
    edited November -1
    1. My 1957 Thunderbird currently in total restoration

    2. My 1981 Delorean with 10K actual miles

    3. My Special Forces memorabilia collection


    Jim

    "De Oppresso Liber"
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My property in the wilds of Michigan.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This will be a bit hard to describe.My Dad was a master craftsman.While on his ship in the South Pacific during WW II .He made a model of a P-38 plane.The cockpit is fifty caliber bullets soldered back to back.The two fuselages are made from thirty caliber shells with thirty cal bullet soldered on the base of the cartage to make the engines.The wings were sawed out of stainless steel.All of the work was done with a hack saw and a file.It is absolute perfection.

    Like most of his generation,He did not talk much about his experiences during the war.I do no his ship was hit by a dud Japanese torpedo and came under several kamikaze attacks.I guess all the hours he spent on the plane took his mind off what was going on around him.I do know this plane is priceless to me.

    Beach,It must be quite an experience to hold that book.

    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Varmint hunter I was thinking the same thing about holding your dad's P-38....that is one hell of a possession! And knowing when your dad made it....makes it priceless. Beach
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    An old old Queen Steel hunting knife. It belonged to my Great Grandad and he gave it to my Grandma. I used to admire it when I was a kid. My Grandma and Grandad used to take me deer hunting when I was a pre-teen and I gutted my first deer with that knife. Several years ago I was back in Pa visiting my family when Gram handed me a wrapped box. Inside was that knife with a letter from Gram telling about it and the memories it had for her and her Dad and how she hoped it would hold those same type memories for me. Well it does and I hope it will for my Son when it gets passed to him.

    Lt the misty eyed.

    "We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*

    **Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would say the 22 photo albums, and 2 apple boxes full of bad pictures Iv'e taken over the years

    A hot barrel, is a warm fuzzy feeling.
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I'll have to say my dad's Marine Corps guide book. He got it in basic training in the 1960's. He gave it to me when I was just a little kid. It has survived over 10 moves and even a flood.



    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Freedom

    Have guns,will travel
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My most prized possession is a .35 cal Remington, model 8, that belonged to my grandfather, then my uncle, then my dad and then me.
    It was made in the first year of manufacture according to the S/N, which is #504. My grandfather picked it up in a pawn shop in Placerville, Cal for opening day of deer season when my uncle got drunk and didn't show up in camp with all the rifles. Ahhh, memories.
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    My autographed first editions of Hell I Was There by Elmer Kieth
    (Personalized at a book signing) and my autographed photo of me and John Wayne when I was 12
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  • super chickensuper chicken Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wanker
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lowrider:

    A Taylor? I'm impressed, really impressed.

    Clouder..
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmm, I have quite a few nice things, but the truth is it is only stuff. I would have to say my family and friends are what I value most.

    He who finishes with the most toys probably had a pretty empty life.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Super Chicken, is that your mother or father.....I could not tell since you left out a few letters....0OPS, that might be somewhat insulting, but then again so was your intended response...

    Edited by - william81 on 04/18/2002 11:30:10
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The old...ah, the old.......dag-nab-it, jist had it.

    Oh yeah, the memories.

    Whew..thought I'd lost it there.


    Clouder..
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  • PDF.44PDF.44 Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Dad passed away in 85' left me his saddle.
    Hell, he didn`t play cowboy he WERE one.
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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    my 65 vette, my 2002 harly, my doberman and last but not least my wife
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  • Old hickoryOld hickory Member Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My farmland - I've never inherited a cent. I've worked hard since I was a kid. I saved through college - never had a car or stereo so I could make a down-payment when I got the chance. I bought 120 acres when I was 20 and another 160 when i was 38. My cheapness caused two wives to leave me but I still have most of the land.
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    assurance of my personal relationship with God ... all based on grace ... AMAZING GRACE! It's yours too, just for the asking. He just gives it away!

    Ken
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    What andersk said.

    Beyond that, for a material possession, mine is my Dad's old .38 Super Colt Commander, circa 1955. With hand carved IVORY grips. It is more accurate than I am and it NEVER jams.

    Certified SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of the General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the premier gun auction site on the Net! Email davidn
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Clouder: Do you play? Not many non-players would be familiar with the Taylor name.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider...OK!! I'm going to bite! Tell us about this Taylor guitar. Beach
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    They're just a real good line of mass-produced, acoustic guitars. Bob Taylor started building them in southern Kalifornia 1975 and has prospered by building a high quality instrument with a solid lifetime warranty. Customer service is second to none.

    I bought mine, a model 615 (six-string, jumbo body, sitka spruce top with curly maple back and sides, ebony fretboard), in 1997 for a little less than 2500 bucks. The same model today is nearly a thousand more. You can go all the way to an Engleman spruce or Adirondack spruce, Brazillian rosewood Presentation model for around 10,000 dollars.

    They sound like a million bucks, play like a dream and hold their value like you can't believe. Much better guitars than Gibsons or Martins.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.

    Edited by - Lowrider on 04/18/2002 16:28:00
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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I gotta only two tings in dis worl. My balls and my word, and I don't break em for nobody.

    NIKLASAL@hotmail.com
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It would have to be my 110 pound silver mounted Ted Flowers parade saddle set. Of corse, the wife has a set too, but mine is better 'cuz it's mine! Tell you what, you can't miss us in a parade when we get the silver sets out! Hurry summer...
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Besides my family,it would be my 56 Chevy.Bought it in 1975 from my friend that owns a wrecking yard.I am the second owner not counting the car lot that took it in on trade.The car lot owed my friend some money,so the 56 paid off the money they owed him. It is just one of 11 that i have owned,and my favorite.
    Dr.Evil
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  • jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine is my wife, daughter, and my 69 yenko camaro....

    lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal!
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A toss up:
    My Grandfather's Winchester M94 30-30, which he received as his 11th birthday gift in 1932 from his father, which he gave me for my 11th birthday.
    or
    For a 5th grade project, I interviewed my great-grandmother (other side of the family), born in 1900, about her childhood, growing up on a farm at the turn of the century, and witnessing the invention of so many things that "changed history" during her life. I recorded it on a cassette tape. I listen to it once a year. I always wish I could re-do the interview, and ask more questions from an adult's perspective, but I still treasure this recording a great deal.

    DarkStar11"Now is the test of the boomerangtossed in the night of redeeming"
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Since you said to leave out guns and people.1. A drawing from a dear friend (drawn 30 years ago) who is no longer with us.2. A painting from a friend who was in nam, and might soon not be with us.3. Like Lowrider, My Harley, it gets used the most. To carry my wife and guns to the shooting range.Oops I wasn't supposed to mention any people and guns.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My dad's pocket knife and my farm.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As far as possessions go, I have a photo album compiled by my grandfather (my first full-time hunting, fishing buddy). It consists of a lot of photos of fish caught and game killed. It goes all the way back to photos of him and my great grandfather with various fish and game, through grandpa and my dad (his son-in-law)on to a few with me. I lost him in 1986 and would not part with this for the world.

    KC
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    My Dad's Sharpshooter Medal. and a Hand Built "Stone" Bird and Trout Knife that my Uncle recently gave me....

    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
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  • 223believer223believer Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A story I wrote some years ago would be mine. Only a few pages in length, but quite good if I do say so myself. I don't pretend to be a talented writer, but I did one heck of a job on that one. Sort of funny how something created by your own hands can have so much value to you.
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  • super chickensuper chicken Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Williams81

    Before you get to high and mighty by telling me I am trying to insult with my response you should know what the word was that was edited. Obviously I am not allowed to type the word here but it started with a W and rymes with anchor.

    Nowhere as near as grafic as Niklasal's answer of "balls"

    It would seem that you are doing the insulting with the references to my mother and father.

    I suggest you look around your own "yard" before you try to clean mine.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I could make several responses to your post Mr. Chicken, but it is not worth the effort. Sorry if you were insulted, I was also insulted and just tried to point that out....

    By the way, welcome to the board, most of us got trashed a few times when we were new, it is part of the fun...
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  • super chickensuper chicken Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    fine and dandy I can deal with that


    I am not new. I am just in undercover mode.
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