There are several good threads here about the old days and several mention their "Dad's Guns". My father enjoyed his guns much and collected many, but what he liked was almost exactly opposite of what I liked. He was a pump action guy while I liked levers and so on.
My question is, did the guns your father have have a bearing on what types you now own?

My Dad never had a gun I really liked or wanted... except for one. That being the Browning Citori that I gave him as a gift.
But we did a lot together - he and his guns, me and mine.
My Grandad (on my Mom's side) had a couple of guns I wanted. One old 25-20...Octagon barrel lever action he'd had since he was a young boomer, involved in the Klondike gold rush. That gun allowed him to survive and to eat meat in the Yukon. According to his tales, he shot everything from Ptarmigan to bear and moose with that thing. He always said I could have that gun when he was done with it.
When he died, I was away at college and my Grandmother gave that gun to a neighbor of theirs.
I was really bummed about that. I guess still am because Grandad has been dead for 42 years now.

I find my interests and the types of guns that I have are very much that of my father's. He is pretty old school in his beliefs especially when it is concerning cailbers. For instance he refuses to acknowledge that the .40 pistol cailber exists. All he needs is his trusty 45. Nothing wrong with that at all but I find that I am a little more open when it comes to my opinions on that sort of thing.

My daddy bought Remingtons. Period. The only gun other than a Remington that he owned was a Savage 22 Rifle that my Uncle lent him and he never returned and a H&R 22 Pistol that he bought off a colored gentleman when he worked at a gas station in Pittsburgh back in the 50's.

Later in life he bought a S & W 357 with a long barrel and a scope for hunting deer.

My Grand Daddy's bought Savage Rifles. One was a 30 - 06 Bolt - like a Model 110 and the other bought a 300 Savage Model 99 take down.

My one grand daddy bought a 12 Gauge Savage Stevens Single barrel shotgun ( Chippewa Falls ) that was probably in a fire and they whittled a stock and forearm out of a piece of oak for it.

My other grand father owned a .410 shotgun that probably came from Western Auto or Montgomery Wards. All it says on the Shotgun is "Ranger" Model 101.4

I bought Remingtons all my life until I found out that their quality went out the window about 1982.

Since then all my new guns have been Brownings with the exception of one 12 gauge Super Magnum Shotgun that I bought way back in 1997.

People didn't buy guns like they do today.

Nobody had any money and the money that they did have, they bought one gun and it had to last them the rest of their lives.

Guess my dad's 03-A3 rifle had a lasting effect on me. He bought the rifle new, still in the cosmoline, from "Ye Old Hunter" an ad that was in the American Rifleman years ago. He had an old gunsmith named Pete Stout from Kadoka SD sporterize it.

When he got the rifle back it only took a couple of hunts before he figured out his stub index finger and the bolt were trying to occupy the same space. He bought a Remington pump rifle so he could still hunt with his handicap.

The 03-A3 sat in the closet for years. When I turned 14 I worked all summer (layed 900' of drain tile and painted gobs of storm doors and windows) for the money to purchase that rifle.

Still have it today. Up until the last several years, everything bigger than a coyote was taken with dad's rifle. Still use it on elk.

My Dad wasn't much for hunting - more of a fisherman.

He owned an old Savage Model 12 .22LR pump with a wired up buttstock that he hauled around in his pickup window rack and hunted squirrels with. In time, was working parttime in a gun shop and completely refinished the rifle for him as a present. He looked it over closely and handed it back, saying he couldn't haul something that nice around in the truck and was meaning to give it to me, anyway.

Bought him a Remington Nylon Mod 66 and put a 4x scope on it as a replacement. He wasn't sure about the scope, but after hunting with it for a while said that it really improved his ability to see the tree rats.

Upon his death in 1980, gave the Savage to a nephew that always had an interest in guns. The Remington was given to another set of nephews who outgrew their interests and only think of it as a keepsake.

Have guns enough to pass on to my only grandson, so all in all, would say Dad would have approved.

My dad had a 35 Pump Remington Gamemaster. It resides in my gunsafe never to be sold. My Mom had a Marlin 336RC 30-30, I have been collecting Marlins for years. I got to use her rifle when I hunted with Dad. I had a bolt action 30-30 as a child. I have had many types and calibers over the years but never got over my love of levers.

my dad got rid of most of his guns when he had kids, so I never really got a chance to see what he had. He did end up getting a double barrel LC Smith passed down from his great grand father. I want that one really bad. He also has an over/under Golden Eagle that he doesn't like. He never really liked pumps, and my first gun was a pump mainly because the price. So most of my influence comes elsewhere, but he sure is quick to comment on my guns.

My dad and I do a lot of talking about guns and he has taught me a lot. Wen it came time for me to buy my first big game rife I did so on a whim (my 92 Rossi) a 44 but not a 30/30 like he has. When I bought my first bolt rifle it was a Rem 700 in 30-06, just about like dad's ( his is a BDL left handed mine a ADL right handed with a synthetic stock). We do all our reloading together and most all of our hunting, along with my boys and my sister girls, dad, grandpa is a big influence to us about our guns and hunting.

The only gun my dad had was a hunts man 16 gage bolt action he got from Sears in 1958 with a Polly choke
i have used it when i first started hunting i now have my own guns but still have the old 16 gage