OT: Bamboo? Buy yourself the damned .22 lever.

Kismet

Kismet

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Get an old one, a new one, a brand-name, a look-alike, but get the damned gun!

Ain't NOBODY gonna keep you from having one!

If someone objects, send them to me. We'll have a "discussion."

I have access to lots of land around here.
 
My vote: the Henry .22 lever.

Bought one last year and love it. Have made shots way past its range- that scope must be zeroed perfectly. Has never jammed or choked. Nice wood.

Much cheaper than the Marlin 39A (admittedly a great gun but like $600).


Ad Astra
 
Hey

it's got to be a better excuse to add to a collection than my old stand by.

"The voices told me too"

(You can substitute spirits, god, demon's devils, angels, etc for voices if you need to)...
 
Browning BLR, think it is, is *awesome*. Load it up with CB Longs, and you can sit on the porch, and ring the spinner without having to wear ear pro or damaging your ears...

John
 
On gunbroker.com, I picked up a Winchester 9422 for my boy's first rifle. I really lucked out because it appears to never have been shot, or shot very little. I called Winchester, and according to the serial # it was made in 1974, way before the tang safety, and cross bolt safety, and all of the other devices invented to keep down litigation from stupid people.

When I was growing up, I was taught to keep my finger off the trigger, and to make sure I followed the other 3 cardinal rules of gun handling. It's a shame that gun makers have caved in to fear from the lawyers. Nothing more aggravating than drawing a bead on a buck, squeezing the trigger, and the gun doesn't go bang because you forgot to take the safety off.
 
I have used my Browning BLR to turn many tin cans into art objects. Art, is in the eye of the beholder, as they say :D I took the plastic off the stock, and replaced it with an oil finish like a Winchester.
Love that little gun! Oops, now I'm getting all mushy and sentimental. Sorry, munk :p :)
 
Thanks Kismet ~ put a big smile on my face when I saw that one.


Yeah, I definitely will someday, probably as soon as I get out of the city.

You know I look around the room, and there isn't one thing in here that was handed down to me from my parents. Not one thing. That rifle was it, and I naively assumed it would go to me.

Possibly the saddest part is that the gun didn't mean anything to my dad. He'd had it his entire life, secretly dreamed of being a cowboy, and he gives it away to be destroyed for a *strong expletive* insurance quote? He is a man ruled by his ghosts ~~ he never looks them in the eye.



Munk ~ earlier today you wrote that kids have never looked better (physically) and yet have never been more vulnerable (emotionally). I think that is entirely true.

There aren't any more initiations anymore, nor rites of passage. No communities, no tribes, no elders. Sure maybe for some kids, somewhere, but as a whole I think we are just stressing kids out from day one.


I learned early on that I had to come up with my own rites of passage. Thank god for my grandfather man. I look around the room and there are plenty of things he passed down. If it hadn't been for him, I would have turned out pretty damned hollow inside. Maybe not, as we've seen, humans are pretty rugged.



Thanks again Kismet. I'll get that rifle someday, and maybe after I do we can take a walk on your land and find what there is to shoot.


~ Bamboo ~
 
My Grandfather passed his Stevens .22 pump to my father he left it to me, its going to my son then his. Still good as new with countless rounds through it.... I have to say I am very thankful for something like this to pass along with some Khuks

Even if you don't fire it, buy something
 
Let's not forget Ruger has a modern lever out in 22 They aren't selling all that well, and you might be able to pick one up cheap.



munk
 
He sure did. He's a funny guy. He's such a peacemaker it's surprising sometimes to hear what a crusty character he can be too.

I'm trying to remember if any of us finally told him; "just get the damned SKS."



munk
 
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