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Got a 53 year old Benjamin 312 that still works, do that count?

CZ 550 American 7x57 and with the 4x Zeiss that was on the .375 H&H.

I'm on the iPhone and can't cipher how to post pics, or I'd put one up of the '60s vintage Savag'e 24 (.30-30/20) with the cheap red dot sight in the custom mount.

Pretend to use your imagination, it never don't work.

Best Regards,

BD

PS: it shoots tighter patterns with the .30-30 than the 20 but it takes longer.

My imagination is always working. For instance...

White line fever?

Yes.

When I was starting out hunting---lots of guys used old military surplus guns. I saw alot of 30/40 Krags, 06 springfields, 6.5 or 7.7 Japs, 8mm mausers. Working class hunters could get them on the cheap & go kill deer. Many would put a Weaver 4x on it & have to alter the bolt. Most would not even put a new stock on it.

They probably didn't use camo either.

You guys ruined all the 'fun'. What fun is it to converse as normal people do without resorting to sifting pearls from the sewage pit?

I got my friend's daughter out shooting an H&R youth stocked Handi in .223.

It's wearing a 3x9 Bushnell Elite 4200, and hit where she pointed it.

She is super excited about deer season now.

The first high power rifle I bought as a kid was an old Eddystone 17,and it was a good shooting gun,.It was scoped with a old 3x9x40 Simmons scope on see thru mounts,and had real nice Marbles sights.It still had the military stock ,but it had been reworked to have a more sporting look..I gave $150 for it,and about 2,and a1/2 boxes of shells in around about 1990,or 91...A friend of mine bought one of those 7.7 Japs for $75 bucks I'm thinking,but at the time the only shells he could get were Norma,at a then astronomical price ,I'm thinking of around $25,or $30 dollars.

Sure. My 5mm Benjamin is long gone but I have a Daisy 880 that has accounted for a lot of rabbits and one prairie dog that mistook our septic field for a new home.

What?

Could you PM me the Texas Barking Spider recipe, that schhiddt was good...

Charlie