My first deer rifle, a birthday present at age 14, was a Savage 340 in .30-30. When I finished college, my parents and grandmother bought me a SAKO L61R Finnbear in .270 as a graduation gift. That was in 1974. I put a McMillan stock on the rifle sometime in the late 1980s and still have it some 46 years after acquiring it. I've owned it longer than anything in my vault. It's topped with a Nikon 1.5-5 scope and is more accurate than I am. Jack O'C was a big influence in my early gun choices and I haven't experienced anything to suggest he was wrong almost half a century later.
