If1HitU
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My first S&W 40VE .I started buying gun late.
That is too cool. My first milsurps were bought from pickle barrels in the pawn & gun shops along Yadkin Roaad and Bragg Blvd outside of Ft Bragg as well as some strange little gun shop in Massachusetts and Kittery Trading Post's big sales in Maine.First rifle : milsurp 6.5X52mm 18" barrel Carcano carbine my dad bought for me at GI Surplus for $15 when I was 13. There was a large bucket full of those standing on their metal buttplates next to a similar bucket with milsurp rifles in 8X57JS next to it, for $25.
A fella who was *brought up right*!pistol-1911A1
rifle---Garand
revolver-GP100
shotgun-Mossberg 500
Getting back my first shotgun and rifle in the form of a .22/20 24 H DL was one of my best scores ever.Savage mdl. 24.
.22mag. over a 20 ga.
I traded it (in about 1976) working night shift in a Tobacco warehouse in Mtn. City, TN. (Unloading and weighing farmers trucks, of hand tied tobacco bundles on baskets.) Traded it for a 1952 Winchester mdl 94 (.30-.30) beautiful wood. Pug, needed a squirrel gun, I needed a deer rifle. (We were both happy.) Still have it in my collection.
Have since sought and purchased a Mdl. 24V (deluxe) .30-.30 over a 20 ga. In order to fill that niche. Simmons Pro series Diamond reticle shotgun scope. Would love to have that .22mag over 20ga. back.