SmeeAgain
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My first Winchester Model 94 30-30 was a trade for something relatively worthless. So trivial in fact I can't even remember what it was.
The guy I got it from insisted there was something wrong with his rifle.
I checked it throughly from end to end and even shot it several times. I couldn't find the slightest flaw.
I tried my best to convince him it was fine but he wanted nothing to do with it so I traded & got a very nice rifle... almost for free.
A few weeks later he asked me how I liked it. Told him it was great & offered to give it back.
Then he finally told me what was wrong... His entire reason for buying it was so he could fire it like Chuck Conners on The Rifleman TV show... it wouldn't cycle fast enough no matter how hard he tried AND it kicked like a mule!
After getting over the initial shock, I asked if he was serious and his response was... "try it, you'll see!"
I couldn't even laugh. I tried to explain that I didn't know what caliber The Rifleman was using, but it certainly wasn't a 30-30!
It looked more like a pistol cartridge... he fires it multiple times, hip shooting, with virtually no recoil. Then reaches in his shirt pocket & pulls out a handful of tiny cartridges to reload.
Now forget the colossal difference in recoil, just the length of a 30-30 cartridge takes time to cycle!
He still insisted there was some other defect.
Some people just shouldn't own guns.
The guy I got it from insisted there was something wrong with his rifle.
I checked it throughly from end to end and even shot it several times. I couldn't find the slightest flaw.
I tried my best to convince him it was fine but he wanted nothing to do with it so I traded & got a very nice rifle... almost for free.
A few weeks later he asked me how I liked it. Told him it was great & offered to give it back.
Then he finally told me what was wrong... His entire reason for buying it was so he could fire it like Chuck Conners on The Rifleman TV show... it wouldn't cycle fast enough no matter how hard he tried AND it kicked like a mule!
After getting over the initial shock, I asked if he was serious and his response was... "try it, you'll see!"
I couldn't even laugh. I tried to explain that I didn't know what caliber The Rifleman was using, but it certainly wasn't a 30-30!
It looked more like a pistol cartridge... he fires it multiple times, hip shooting, with virtually no recoil. Then reaches in his shirt pocket & pulls out a handful of tiny cartridges to reload.
Now forget the colossal difference in recoil, just the length of a 30-30 cartridge takes time to cycle!
He still insisted there was some other defect.
Some people just shouldn't own guns.