MilsurpShooter
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I'd want it to tell me where else there are guns hidden. My house is old, built in the later 1800's by my great, great, great, great, grandfather (probably an extra great in there) One of the first houses in the town. It's been a mixed blessing for me while I was growing up, couldn't do certain things because the way the house was wired, floor couldn't support certain other things I wanted, but it never failed me in the department of history, something I've enjoyed and been avid in since I was 6 years old. It was always an adventure going into the attic, old steamer trunks with photo's and papers from the 1920's, boxes with land deeds, a scrap book complete with newspaper and telegrams from WWII. Heck in one box I found a blue print for a fire hydrant, why on earth that was in there I have to find out.
I didn't get into shooting until relatively late in my life. I'd learned a little when I was 11 but did nothing really until late in high school when I bought a Yugo Mauser. Tried to start a shooting club as an extra curricular in high school but that didn't go over well. After I got tha mauser the bug really got ahold of me, there were a few old guns in the house so I figured I'd take them, work on them some and see what I could do with them. An Old J Stevens single shot 12 guage with plastic stock was my first project. Next one I had learned a little beforehand and knew enough not to touch it was an 1884 Springfield Trapdoor that has quite alot of family history behind it.
I have explored this house from top to bottom, found a magazine announcing John Bonhams death, a Beatles white album that was placed behind sheetrock in the rafters, but today I was surprised yet again. There is a small dividing wall between my dining room and kitchen, probably 2 feet past the end of the wall and 5 inches wide. Stupid me I put a pretty big hole in it while moving some furniture around. Got some new sheetrock and paint, cut the old sheetrock out was surprised to find myself staring at a very dusty, very old looking canvas sack. Undid the drawstring top and removed something wrapped in an old wax type paper, when I opened it I found an old rifle that I recognized from some very old photographs. My grandmother grew up on a farm in up-state New York, some of her old photo's showed her smiling with a rifle, holding a rabbit with said rifle, that kind of thing. Kind of wondered what happened to it but didn't think much of it. Protrusion at the front of the stock is the same, barrel is the same length.
Rifle is a Winchester Model 04a .22 short long and long rifle. Stock has some scratches and dents but the metal is in good condition, all the pieces are there, bolt cycles smoothly, firing mechanism looks intact. Overall, in excellent shape considering it was in a wall for who knows how long.
Have to get the digital camera tomorrow so I can get a target picture into the Marlin 336 thread, I'll update this post tomorrow with some pictures of this as well.
I honestly wonder if this house is hiding any more secrets and if it is, when they will decide to reveal themselves to me.
I didn't get into shooting until relatively late in my life. I'd learned a little when I was 11 but did nothing really until late in high school when I bought a Yugo Mauser. Tried to start a shooting club as an extra curricular in high school but that didn't go over well. After I got tha mauser the bug really got ahold of me, there were a few old guns in the house so I figured I'd take them, work on them some and see what I could do with them. An Old J Stevens single shot 12 guage with plastic stock was my first project. Next one I had learned a little beforehand and knew enough not to touch it was an 1884 Springfield Trapdoor that has quite alot of family history behind it.
I have explored this house from top to bottom, found a magazine announcing John Bonhams death, a Beatles white album that was placed behind sheetrock in the rafters, but today I was surprised yet again. There is a small dividing wall between my dining room and kitchen, probably 2 feet past the end of the wall and 5 inches wide. Stupid me I put a pretty big hole in it while moving some furniture around. Got some new sheetrock and paint, cut the old sheetrock out was surprised to find myself staring at a very dusty, very old looking canvas sack. Undid the drawstring top and removed something wrapped in an old wax type paper, when I opened it I found an old rifle that I recognized from some very old photographs. My grandmother grew up on a farm in up-state New York, some of her old photo's showed her smiling with a rifle, holding a rabbit with said rifle, that kind of thing. Kind of wondered what happened to it but didn't think much of it. Protrusion at the front of the stock is the same, barrel is the same length.
Rifle is a Winchester Model 04a .22 short long and long rifle. Stock has some scratches and dents but the metal is in good condition, all the pieces are there, bolt cycles smoothly, firing mechanism looks intact. Overall, in excellent shape considering it was in a wall for who knows how long.
Have to get the digital camera tomorrow so I can get a target picture into the Marlin 336 thread, I'll update this post tomorrow with some pictures of this as well.
I honestly wonder if this house is hiding any more secrets and if it is, when they will decide to reveal themselves to me.
Good luck!
), or help remodeling? Will work for guns!
