Yes,but later,money being the holdup I'm sure. Dad was raised in a quail hunting family, they raised and trained bird dogs. My Grampa C had one rifle that I know of, a 63 Winchester. He had a finer bead mounted and supposedly won numerous shooting matches with it and killed one deer I'm told. He died when I was young so I never got to hunt with him. I have the rifle and it's a shooter.
My Dad had a Remington 1100, M700 6mm Varmint Special and Speedmaster BDL, that was it until he joined our towns volunteer police reserve. He went through various duty guns in my teens, He was a trapshooter too and we loaded many a shell together. He reloaded rifle and tons of pistol rounds during the cop days. He always qualified expert and at his funeral the Major of the Sheriffs Department told me "Before there were speedloaders your Dad could load faster from his pocket than anyone. Even after speedloaders he didn't switch for a while. He'd stick his hand in and come out with 6, not 5 or 7, I never saw anything like it "
He did buy several rifles in the 10 years before he died. He hunted with my friends, he always took a weeks vacation during deer season dating back to the mid 70's. We went to Colorado 3 times elk hunting and he killed two cows. We shot trap every week for 7 years or so until he died in 2006. He died way too young and I'm grateful for all those times now.
My Grampa M retired to the farm early and he and my Dad started the deer season vacation thing. He had one CF, a 742 in 243, that was the "big rifle" LOL. He was an old timer that ate a lot of squirrels and rabbits, there weren't many deer until the 70's and. 80's.
Sorry this is so long I probably should have stopped at yes.
KC
