Michael Tinker Pearce
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There's been a glaring hole in my accumulation of weapons for some time- I haven't had a .22 rifle in several years. I thought about it at length and decided that what I really wanted was an inexpensive used bolt-action- just a knock-around plinker and small-game gun.
The wife and I trundled over to Pinto's yesterday and looked over the selection. Along the way I mentioned that I wanted the gun in part to teach Linda to shoot long-guns. She has a number of pistols but never got into rifles. That got her looking on her own account, and she became enamored of a tidy little Winchester Model 270 Deluxe. This is a slick little slide-action gun that holds 16-shots in its tubular magazine in .22 LR, a good few more in .22 short. These were made from the mid-1960's until the mid 1970s and it's a light-weight, handy little rifle in very good condition. The price? $100.
They had a classic Winchester pump as well for a rather decent $400, and I dithered over that. In the end it was not what I was there for, so I reluctantly set it aside.
There was also a Montgomery Wards Westernfield Model 37, a bolt-action with a five-round magazine made in the mid-1930s. In quite decent condition with a surprisingly pretty piece of wood for the stock. Good bore, very good trigger, enough weight to feel like a 'real' rifle without being too heavy to pack around.
The rifle is just what I was looking for- simple and solid with a good feel to it. The price? $90! Yes, thanks- I'll have that!
We walked out with his-and-hers plinkers and two rather nice rifle-rugs for under $235 including tax. No way to be unhappy about that! Ammo, BTW, will be the least of our concerns since my Uncle Jim left me seven bricks of ammo- probably contemporary to Linda's Winchester- when he passed. It's cheap Sears-brand stuff, but I've fired a few hundred rounds of it without any issues.
So I'm looking forward to some quality range-time with the wife this weekend!
PS- Linda said if the finances work out as planned this week we can go back for the vintage Winchester. Yeah, she's a keeper!
The wife and I trundled over to Pinto's yesterday and looked over the selection. Along the way I mentioned that I wanted the gun in part to teach Linda to shoot long-guns. She has a number of pistols but never got into rifles. That got her looking on her own account, and she became enamored of a tidy little Winchester Model 270 Deluxe. This is a slick little slide-action gun that holds 16-shots in its tubular magazine in .22 LR, a good few more in .22 short. These were made from the mid-1960's until the mid 1970s and it's a light-weight, handy little rifle in very good condition. The price? $100.
They had a classic Winchester pump as well for a rather decent $400, and I dithered over that. In the end it was not what I was there for, so I reluctantly set it aside.
There was also a Montgomery Wards Westernfield Model 37, a bolt-action with a five-round magazine made in the mid-1930s. In quite decent condition with a surprisingly pretty piece of wood for the stock. Good bore, very good trigger, enough weight to feel like a 'real' rifle without being too heavy to pack around.
The rifle is just what I was looking for- simple and solid with a good feel to it. The price? $90! Yes, thanks- I'll have that!
We walked out with his-and-hers plinkers and two rather nice rifle-rugs for under $235 including tax. No way to be unhappy about that! Ammo, BTW, will be the least of our concerns since my Uncle Jim left me seven bricks of ammo- probably contemporary to Linda's Winchester- when he passed. It's cheap Sears-brand stuff, but I've fired a few hundred rounds of it without any issues.
So I'm looking forward to some quality range-time with the wife this weekend!
PS- Linda said if the finances work out as planned this week we can go back for the vintage Winchester. Yeah, she's a keeper!
