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Monday, October 24, 2005

A Gift From My Grandpa

A couple of years ago on Christmas day, I recieved one of the best presents I have ever gotten.  Sitting in the living room with my family and grandparents, I kept thinking of how this christmas was just the same as all the previous with good gifts, but nothing special.  As it turned out, this years years christmas was like none before it thanks to my grandpa.  My grandpa had a Savage 250-3000 which his dad bought for him in 1927 when he was old enough to hunt.  Even though his dad paid only twenty five dollars for the rifle and it probably wouldn’t be worth much these days, I would never sell it.
Throughout the last sixteen years of my life my grandpa has told me every story of his hunting trips what seems like at least ten times apiece.  I used to find the stories boring until I started going hunting with him, and now I love to hear any story he wants to tell me.  Due to his age and physical condition, my grandpa was forced to give up hunting a couple of years ago.  When the next hunting season came around and he decided this, I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I would never get to hunt with my grandpa again.  Even though I don’t go hunting with my grandpa any more, at least I still get to talk to him about all my stories now.  If anybody else ever took a look at this gun, they would see nothing but a beat up old hunting rifle.  But to me this gun represents all the memories of my grandpa and I out hunting that will never be lost, and also the love we have for eachother and our family.

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