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OK Jim...you are of course RIGHT!

Muffin, what can I do to make you feel better???

What an old woman.....Geezzus.....

No, but published in what was virtually the only outdoor publication of the era, it sold lots of rifles and influenced lots of wanna be hunters.

My guess would be JOC would be looking to purchase the closest to what resembles a pre '64 Fwt.. That would be a CRF SC Fwt. or a Kimber. He gave Winchester a pretty good tongue lashing when he wrote about the post '64 offering.

I can attest to that. I have 10 years of Outdoor Life neatly stacked. Not only do I have his monthly columns but all his feature stories. The old ads from the 60's are really great!

Remember them well. I learned to read on Outdoor Life. Of course,back then, the magazine wasn't about catch-and-release parrot fish on flies and hunting yaks with tofu guns.

I can't see JOC with a Kimber. He liked accurate rifles.

That's what gave me the fever, growing up: Outdoor Life, Field & Stream & Sports Afield (& later reignited by Gray's Sporting Journal) that would be passed on to me from my dad and uncles. Not so much for the ads, but for the wonderful stories and adventures. Seems a shame that kids today rarely connect w/ stuff like this.

Most anything will trump a Pre-64 in accuracy. We are living in the good old days.

If Jack O'Connor was rifle shopping today...

He'd get whatever would piss off Elmer Keith.

TFF

Right, and Mr.O'Connor, like any experienced rifleman today would buy used stuff and have them built to taste.

He would have these and wouldn't look at plastic/stainless junk, for all the right reasons. In order:

30-06
.270
257 Roberts
22 Hornet

Which one of those went goat hunting with you?

Yes we are in the "new" good old days. But what we are talking about are some of our earlier exposures to our future loony roots.
I remember my first hunt with my 4 cousins - 1968. The 80 year old farmhouse had a stone basement with real sawmill cut 2x4's. The wooden floor creaked and we set out our mouse trapline on opening weekend. Within ten minutes of the last cribbage game, the traps would start to go off. Once in awhile the red squirrels would get inside and make a big mess. It was a .22 short shooting gallery before we could come in and straighten up. One year someone shot a skunk under the porch. Everything reeked for the entire weekend and longer.

Anyway, the brothers all shot 30-06's - it was the only caliber that mattered. All with hand loaded 180gr. Hornady round noses. Two scoped Browning GR II Belgiums, one pre '64 aluminum butt '06 with irons only and a Remington bolt, I suppose a 700? Red wools with bunny boots. Yup, JOC would have fit in just fine.

In 1980 an arsonist in the east central part of MN. torched a bunch of seasonal buildings and the old farmhouse didn't survive.

So Elmer is resurrected for this thread now? He might have a harder time "shopping".

Wonder if he would look twice at WSM's and WSSM's?

You might try carrying the rifle with a sling, they don't get as beat up as when you drag it around by the barrel.

I have been goat hunting with a Browning 78 in 25-06. Didn't have the Model 70's then. The Browning is still in great shape many animals and hunts later...





This Sako has been to Alaska and carried all over the tundra and it still looks good...



This Model 70 made it to Alaska and back on another trip...

Just asking which one went up the last goat mountain with you. If you feel like please post up BAR/bunny pics also.

Beating $20 you didn't wear jeans up an Alaskan goat mountain, but then why would folks use second tier [bleep].

Of course it's funny when I tourist proclaims that something worked great for a week in the tundra.

I seem to recall someone getting stupid wet in another tourist visit. Try living in that [bleep] day in and day out, carrying a rifle day in and day out. Taking a rifle in and out of skiffs, rivers, canoes, ATV's.

Most things can work for a short while, most but not all.

The best thing about you is that you are not the least bit opinionated...