I remember saving paper route money for months to buy a new 39A Golden Mountie from Gibson's Discount Store in 1968. I killed a carload of gophers with that gun during the summers of Huckleberry Finn as I spent those summers all over Horse Butte, near West Yellowstone, MT.

Few guns excited me as much as that Marlin, and now it sits in the back of the safe, unfired for decades...

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