The Bucket List Gun

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Old Stumpy said:
What year? Did you check the serial number on the list?
Great wood by the way.

I have a nearly mint 1969 Marlin 336 in .30-30 (pre-safety of course) that was one of the many rifles that languished in the Marlin vault for decades and got sold off to a bunch of LGSs when they made the big move.

My current bucket list gun is a Miroku Winchester 1873 short rifle in .44-40. I found a new one that is affordable and I am buying it. I would probably prefer .45 Colt but that isn't going to happen. So .44-40 it is, paper-thin cases and all. Not a problem though, and it's the original cartridge anyway.

I will need to pick up some dies and order some cases and a custom bullet mold, but I think that I have the whole finicky process well worked out, thanks to You-Tube.
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I haven’t checked the serial, but the guy I bought it from said that he bought it new from Gander in 2002.
 
guyfromohio said:
I won’t call it a “unicorn” or even a “grail” gun, but today I traded into one of those guns that I always wanted. Here, in Ohio, our deer cartridges are limited to cartridges with straight walls. Today, I traded into an unfired, still in the box, Marlin 1895G in .45-70. It’s a JM pre-crap-show Marlin....18” ported barrel. A thing of beauty. I traded a 28 gauge Citori. Dollar for Dollar, he got the better end, but you really can’t put a price on something that you’ve wanted but isn’t manufactured any longer.

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I’m very happy. What’s your bucket-list gun?
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Congratulations on landing that bucket list gun!!!
 
You’re going to love it. Monetarily, not the best trade I’ve ever seen. As soon as you shoot it, it’s never going to be NIB again. But it’s certainly not the worst trade. I’ve seen some pretty one sided trades when guys get it in their heads that they want something.
 
BigBore44 said:
You’re going to love it. Monetarily, not the best trade I’ve ever seen. As soon as you shoot it, it’s never going to be NIB again. But it’s certainly not the worst trade. I’ve seen some pretty one sided trades when guys get it in their heads that they want something.
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I really don’t trade or buy with an intent to sell, so I’m not concerned about monetary equality. In fact, I’ve already thrown away the box. Once you have a CCW, a rifle, and a shotgun, everything else is a want. I just dropped $300 taking my three kids bowling, arcade, and out to dinner at the Japanese Steakhouse on Saturday. That price differential, to me, isn’t worth passing up an opportunity to own something no longer made up to the standards that it once was. BNIB is valuable to me only because it means that it isn’t for sale due to defect, not because it holds more value. I’ve made far worse trades, but sometimes you have to offer something great to get what you want.

Now...what to do with all of that 28g ammo.....
 
I have a pretty big bucket and it’s getting kind of full, but there’s always room for more.
I would love to get a Walther 6” SP22. It always makes me think of the prop gun used in Robo Cop
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There are others on the list like an older CZ75 and a S&W M&P M2.0 in FDE. If I spent a little more time, I could come up with a few more.
 
Nuclear said:
Savage 99 lever action in 250-3000 (aka 250 Savage).
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I have one in 243 (what I wanted) on the big brown truck as we speak.

Bad weather stopped them from bringing it to the house yesterday....today we are to have snow and ice...doubt I will see it again today.
 
I am slowing down.....the want list is getting shorter and shorter.

About the only thing left on it is a nice FAL.
 
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