Bolt-Action Shotguns!?
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When I was growing up in the hills of Upstate New York, they were many a lad's first gun. The county I grew up in did not allow deer hunting with rifles, so the go to gun was a shot gun. The bolt action shot guns made great Christmas presents and weren't too hard on Dad's wallet. I hadn't thougth about them in years as you hardly ever see them any more.
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Pabloj the Savage Model 124 was a straight pull design. Cross bolt locking system, tubular magazine, and plastic stocks.
Funny thing when those were made plastic stock were a sign of cheap, less inexpensive guns. And todays synthetic stuff warrant's a premium.
Funny thing when those were made plastic stock were a sign of cheap, less inexpensive guns. And todays synthetic stuff warrant's a premium.
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Just more proof the earth must have passed through a dimensional portal because our reality today isn't the reality of my youth.
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Here's my first shotgun. It's a Montgomery Wards Western field model 149A 20ga. Basically a Mossberg 185 without C-lect choke. It was a hand-me down that has been in the family since new. I used it to take my first pheasant, grouse, duck, and a goose. Nothing is more frustrating than working a bolt action shotgun when there is a big flock coming into the decoys. I even used it with slugs for deer hunting the first year I got to hunt at age 12.
It was looking pretty beat up after being passed around the family for 50 years, so I refinished the stock and re-blued it. It actually has a nice piece of walnut for being a bargain basement gun.
It was looking pretty beat up after being passed around the family for 50 years, so I refinished the stock and re-blued it. It actually has a nice piece of walnut for being a bargain basement gun.
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My father had a Marlin 12ga bolt that my mother bought for him as an anniversary present one year. She got it from Sears. After he stopped hunting, he "loaned" it to one of my uncles, on the condition that he give it back if I decided I wanted it. I did, and have been trying to get it back from him since 1984! (pretty much given up on ever seeing it again).
My LGS gets them in every once in awhile, usually around $150 in good shape. May have to pick one up one day, just for old time's sake, and see if I can make it look half as nice as the one posted early in this thread by DIY guy.
My LGS gets them in every once in awhile, usually around $150 in good shape. May have to pick one up one day, just for old time's sake, and see if I can make it look half as nice as the one posted early in this thread by DIY guy.
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