I beat him by 12...December of '51. What day John? Mine was on the 20th. powdr
You guys are just pups!
Any Olde Farts that can compare their birth date to the ‘36 M70 .257 Roberts in subj article ?
Any within a decade ?
This would’ve been the first hunting gun for someone born in the early Twenties !
Maybe someone born earlier and saved up to replace a WWI conversion. Or an old family heirloom lever.
What amazes me is how this design was so suited to its purpose, but evolved also.
Ergonomics improved, witness the wing safety evolving into the SideSwing design.
Allowing for low mounted scopes, Until Ocular, and more recently Objective lenses got too big for low mounting.
Stocks changed dimensions to follow market preferences.
An interesting glimpse of where we’ve been
