crestoncowboy
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That's a scary-looking rifle!Posted the wrong photo. Couldn't see the whole rifle...
17" Octagon barrel .44 Magnum Rossi 92.
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You sir have a great eye for gorgeous wood.Still waiting to be hunted with..is this Remington Custom shop M-700 in .280 Rem.View attachment 1130950 View attachment 1130951
Still waiting to be hunted with..is this Remington Custom shop M-700 in .280 Rem.View attachment 1130950 View attachment 1130951
Tikka sure does make their guns look a lot like a CZ 455...
I actually like that carving a lot better than most of what I see, which tends to look machine-done, or tends to be flowery and all.I cringed when I read that somebody carved on the stock....but actually it's not bad. Pretty darned good in fact.
Funny thing...it even says CZ 455 on it!!! LOL!!! Some days....!Tikka sure does make their guns look a lot like a CZ 455...
I hunted with my dad’s 336C a little bit this season. I’m not really a lever action fan, but I wanted to take a piece of my dad back to the woods with me this year.My father bought this rifle, a 1952 Marlin 336 SC 30-30, from someone he worked with so that I could use it for my first deer rifle in the mid 1980s.
He borrowed it back/reclaimed it a few years ago and has been using it as his primary deer rifle since. He's taken several deer with it, including one this year.
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My Tikka 453, picked-up as a .22 Mag, but shown here after installing a .17 HMR heavy-fluted barrel. It's a great shooter and my first .17 HMR. It's also very accurate. I really love the .17 HMR for disposing of various varmints from squirrels to crows and coyotes at reasonable ranges. It's a blast on the range too. This rifle rides next to me in the front seat of my pickup more than many other rifles, because it will dispose of lots of critters yet relatively easy on the ears. I was looking for my (takeoff) .22 Magnum barrel the other day, but it may have been given away. I like this barrel/chambering more than the other, but had a few boxes of .22 Mag ammo that I was planning to shoot. The neighbor across the street might use them up in her ongoing battle with varmints attacking her critters.
A hunting buddy wanted to buy a new deer rifle, back in the early 1960s, so I showed him a Marlin like yours at a Firestone store in Waterville, ME and he loved it, so he bought it and probably still has it.I hunted with my dad’s 336C a little bit this season. I’m not really a lever action fan, but I wanted to take a piece of my dad back to the woods with me this year.View attachment 1134431
That's a fine rifle.....and a huge tree.I hunted with my dad’s 336C a little bit this season. I’m not really a lever action fan, but I wanted to take a piece of my dad back to the woods with me this year.View attachment 1134431
Thanks. That old oak may have seen the civil war. We’ve got five of them in the back yard. There was a sixth, but it fell on our house last year. I debated cutting all of them down, but there’s just too much history and I love the shade of a big oak tree during a hot Mississippi summer.That's a fine rifle.....and a huge tree.
That is still a lot of gorgeous wood!I like the rifle!!!! And the tree!
This tree is in Colonial Williamsburg.
No nice rifle by it.......
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