This morning, my son went out to the forest behind his house in Vassalboro, ME, and collected this nice 7-pointer with the first Rem 700 (30-06) I bought, back in 1975 or so, when I got my FFL. I used it for many years, then gave it to him.
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Several years ago he was getting ready to go out hunting, but forgot something, so leaned the rifle against the counter. When he came back, the rifle was on the floor mat, but he didn't think about it and went hunting. He saw a nice buck on the woods road, about a hundred yards away and fired. He missed! He fired four more times and missed all of them!!! He reloaded as the deer came back out, headed the other way and fired again!
He looked at the rifle and the scope objective was bent down, almost to the barrel! A light went on in his head. Apparently, the dog had knocked the rifle down and it landed on the scope, on the rug. He brought the rifle to my house next door and we put a spare scope on it, which he still uses.
The rest of the story: Sometime later, I decided to try straightening the discarded scope, so placed it on my workbench on a thick cloth and whacked it with a rubber hammer and got it straightened out perfectly. I tried it on my CZ...got it sighted-in, and it works great!!!
Hope you enjoyed the story.
JP
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