Trey Veston
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I didn't want "porn" in the thread title, since I am not a fan, but something that conveyed lustful feelings seemed appropriate.
My folks are Wintering in Arizona, so I retrieved my finest firearms to give them a good cleaning and didn't want them unattended for 6 months.
My four favorite rifles...
Top pic is a custom .35 Whelen built by Mel Smart of Montana fame, based on a Winchester Model 70 pre-`64 action. Stock is one of his prototype Accubond laminated hardwood stocks.
He has since passed away and the company he founded now markets this as the Kilamanjaro Rifle with prices around $17,000.
I don't take it hunting anymore, lol.
Second one down is an Uberti clone of an 1885 Winchester high wall in .45-70 govt. Has a 31" Badger barrel, which they don't exist anymore. Scope is a period correct 6x. I used this rifle to shoot in BPCR competitions in Arizona and won my class in the state championship in 2008.
Just a very fun rifle to shoot with all of the black powder smoke.
Third rifle was just given to me by my dad a week ago and is a .30-06 Ackley Improved based on another pre-`64 Winchester Model 70 action with a newer XTR Featherweight 22" .308 barrel re-chambered for the new cartridge. Not sure who made the stock, but it is beautiful.
The fourth rifle is the first rifle I was gifted when I was 13yrs old and I used it to take my first elk, my first whitetail buck, and my first Pronghorn antelope.
It's a Winchester Model 70 XTR Featherweight in .257 Roberts. I haven't hunted with it in years, and the Leupold 6X scope that came on it was traded to my brother for some long forgotten rifle years ago. I was actually on Ebay last night trying to find another old glossy Leupold to mount on it.
I'm truly grateful for these rifles, though they are now passe' with all the cool kids now having everything stainless, fluted, composite, and tacti-cool.
But I think they are functional works of art and I hope to pass them on to my grandkids someday, since my son lives in Seattle and is "woke"...
My folks are Wintering in Arizona, so I retrieved my finest firearms to give them a good cleaning and didn't want them unattended for 6 months.
My four favorite rifles...
Top pic is a custom .35 Whelen built by Mel Smart of Montana fame, based on a Winchester Model 70 pre-`64 action. Stock is one of his prototype Accubond laminated hardwood stocks.
He has since passed away and the company he founded now markets this as the Kilamanjaro Rifle with prices around $17,000.
I don't take it hunting anymore, lol.
Second one down is an Uberti clone of an 1885 Winchester high wall in .45-70 govt. Has a 31" Badger barrel, which they don't exist anymore. Scope is a period correct 6x. I used this rifle to shoot in BPCR competitions in Arizona and won my class in the state championship in 2008.
Just a very fun rifle to shoot with all of the black powder smoke.
Third rifle was just given to me by my dad a week ago and is a .30-06 Ackley Improved based on another pre-`64 Winchester Model 70 action with a newer XTR Featherweight 22" .308 barrel re-chambered for the new cartridge. Not sure who made the stock, but it is beautiful.
The fourth rifle is the first rifle I was gifted when I was 13yrs old and I used it to take my first elk, my first whitetail buck, and my first Pronghorn antelope.
It's a Winchester Model 70 XTR Featherweight in .257 Roberts. I haven't hunted with it in years, and the Leupold 6X scope that came on it was traded to my brother for some long forgotten rifle years ago. I was actually on Ebay last night trying to find another old glossy Leupold to mount on it.
I'm truly grateful for these rifles, though they are now passe' with all the cool kids now having everything stainless, fluted, composite, and tacti-cool.
But I think they are functional works of art and I hope to pass them on to my grandkids someday, since my son lives in Seattle and is "woke"...