Posted before but Dad had a Remington 788 .243 waiting under the the Christmas tree for me in 1973. It wore nothing but irons until I bought a Leupold 4x for it in Sacramento while in the AF.

We didn't even have deer near us when I got the rifle, but it scragged many a crow, groundhog and feral dogs before I finally used it to take a whitetail in the early '90s. It was a truck gun because it was my only CF rifle for a long time and got really battered.

In honor of its approaching 40th birthday I stripped and refinished it with Tru-Oil last summer and it looks better than it did when received. The Micro T1 has since been replaced by a Nikon 3-9x40 BDC and is ready to start its second 40 years in our family permanently zeroed for Fed Premium 85-gr. BTHP.
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