Old Family Photo I found

[Dead I]

Those "Remmy" 11's are some of the best buys you will find in a gun show.  I have a 20 and it's about my favorite shotgun.  They  look and work about like an Auto5 but aren't exactly the same. Great gun!

[Forty Rod]

Now, this is not quite the era that we usually show but thought it was neat and wanted to share.

I have been researching my family history and when I went back to my home town this past weekend one of the old timers there gave me a photo he had of some of my family members. He said it was made in the 1920 or so.




In the photo L to R

Thomas Nathan Wheeler; he was my great great grandfather. His own father served in Company D of the 26 Alabama Infantry and was believed to have been KIA.

Myrt Wheeler; son of Thomas Nathan Wheeler

Bailey Woods; married into the family

Hezzie Wheeler; son of Thomas Nathan Wheeler

William Chester Wheeler; son of Thomas Nathan Wheeler and my grandfather (My dads father)

Well hope you enjoy. Feel free to help me identify the guns in the picture.

I was told by the man that he has two of the guns in his collection and said that next time I came up he would try to let me see them.

I went back and looked again.  Hezzie sure looks like my dad did in about 1930 or so.

[Forty Rod]

Ok, I found out the pump shotgun is a Winchester Model 12. I actually got to see and handle the exact gun in the picture when I went back to my hometown for thanksgiving.

We even took a few pics with some of the descendants of the men in the original pic.

Here are our pics. Now, it was spur of the moment but I think they turned out okay. Comments welcome.



The guy in his Sunday clothes is holding the original Model 12 from the original pic. Its kind of fitting that he be dressed up because in the original pic Bailey Woods (holding the model 12) was sorta dressed up compared to the others too.

Here is another



This is My father, my younger brother and of course myself.





and me...




All of the pics including the original pic was taken on the same land. Its my father's land in Lamar County, Alabama which happened to be part of Rube Burrows old spread.


Comments welcome.

You never said you were related to ZZTop. 

[Rube Burrows]

Yeah, man......ZZTop and I go way back.