Quiz for the Grizzley Old Farts.....

[gizamo]

Yep, that thar is a Weaver K6.....

Hard to find a really good vintage scope these days....
I spent months looking for this old Weaver K6....Looked high and low. Funny thing is that I found quite a few, but all had bluing problems, or the light gathering and clarity had seen better days...

Funny, how hard you have to look sometimes...
But, considering the gun, ~ I think the wait was worth it, don't you?

Oh yeah, and anyone want guess what it's attached to? Guess most folks already know the Brand and Model....

But that is not the whole answer....I'm guessing it's gonna take a GOF (Grizzley Old Fart) to get it..... Hopefully they will share a piece of the story behind it......!



Giz

 

[Art Eatman]

The tang safety and buttpad are Ruger-looking. I can't see the receiver/bolt clearly enough to be definite, though.

 

[gizamo]

Art,

Anybody with 18K in posts must be a GOF
So in respect, yes ~ it is a Ruger and became a very common model....
This one is a early variant....

Giz

 

[Art Eatman]

I went to a gun auction at a gunstore whose owner retired. 1973-ish. I gave $165, IIRC, for one of the first Rugers that had the angled receiver screw. A .243, it was the first NIB rifle I'd ever gotten inside one MOA without tweaking the stock a bit. Remington factory ammo, even! But, what I wanted was the Leupold Vari-X II 3x9 that was on it. I swapped it out for a K4 that had been on my Mark V '06 and sighted it in and sold it to a buddy for $175. He was happy; got a couple of deer with it, that season.

Still have that Vari-X II; it's now on a 77 Mk II .223.

Other than Mini-14s, my only other Ruger was a '70s vintage heavy-barrel .220 Swift. One of the few rifles I regret selling. I had a Redfield 3x9, and a Canjar single-set trigger. Reliably 3/8 MOA. Worked well on feral cats to 300 yards or so.

That was all back in my gunshow years. Lord knows how many guns came and went, back then. Rifles and pistols, mostly; not many shotguns.

 

[Houston Tom]

my guess is RUger of some sort early M77 maybe in a 250 savage?

 

[gizamo]

It is indeed a Model 77. But it is the first version and the one that got so much bad press over one of it's features. So much so that nowadays the gun is known by the name that all the gunpress mentioned in hating it. Causing a redesign into the present gun.....

Giz

 

[gcrookston]

Here's my GOF gun, in a GOF calibre (.264WM).... Scope is an Unertl Hawk




and I guess I'm getting to be a GOF myself... I built that rifle.

 

[jkingrph]

Brought home a nice Savage 99 in 300 Savage about 18 months ago. It sporter a nice Weaver K 4 with a lee dot reticule. Blueing and optics excellent.

 

[rangerruck]

That is nice, the wood style, and the butterknife type bolt handle reminds me of an old remmy a bit, but the buttpad , and the sights are totally diff. The weaver k6 scope is actually double tough to find, usually you kind find k4's, or variables, but most dudes hold on to their k6's for dear life!!!! I know I would like one, to go along with about my 10 k4's. I am also diggin that 264 winmag, will do anything the 7mag will do , but better. Too bad they never made a superlong range heavy bbl type rig for that round.

 

[rangerruck]

and a Unertl scope on a hunting rifle??? Might as well be a Leatherwood... the rarity...

 

[MMCSRET]

Picked up a nice Marlin 336A, 32 W.S., Weaver K2.5 in Buehler mounts, scope cloudy, can't make out crosshairs. Called Weaver Scope Repair Service in ElPaso, He says "hell, I don't know send it to me and I'll send you a letter on what it is and what I can do." I did, meantime found rifle was 1949 dated, mounts also, he sent back word that the scope was 1949 and he didn't have any parts left but would see what he could do.....2 wks later got a bill for $63.00 for the repair and return. I paid it and it is great. all the original adhesive had failed due to age. He cleaned it and glued it back together with modern bonding. Great rifle,scope and mounts sold new in 1949 as a set.

 

[M'bogo]

That is a nice older Ruger. Does it have the intergal bases? I thought the earlier variants did not have the Ruger intergal bases. My dad has two old Ruger bolt actions NIB that are drilled and tapped with no Ruger intergal bases.

M'bogo

 

[gizamo]

Well, it is a .308 Ruger Model 77 ~ but the twist is that it is a Flatbolt....
And one of the few made with both the integral bases and sights....

Of the few Flatbolts made only about 10 percent were made in this manner..

Giz

 

[rdoggsilva]

Well here is my old fart rifle. I get it in 1971 a Remington 700 BDL 30-06. Still use it to this day. Yes I still use the Weaver K-4 W scope. To bad Remington does not stock a rifle like this today.