My youngest son turned twenty one at the end of January and he's currently home on leave. I decided to give him my old carry gun as a birthday present.
This was a present from my wife on our twentieth anniversary so it has sentimental value for me. I carried it for ten years before switching to a different gun this last summer. Since then it's sat ignored in the safe since I use another 1911 for competition. He's the only other serious shooter in the family and I taught him to shoot a handgun with this one, so it has sentimental value for him as well. Over the last few months he'd call and the conversation would always move to 1911's he'd been looking at. I kept telling him to hold off until he came home on leave and we'd look at some options, all the while hoping he wouldn't blow it for me. I was hoping it would mean something to him and it does. He actually got rather choked up when he unwrapped it and saw the blue Colt case. His wife told him, "I bet he'll get you a gun." but he never thought it would be *the gun*. Seeing the look on his face was well worth letting my old companion move on down the road.
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Originally Posted by GardoneVT
