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It's neat to see all the interest in these rifles. They have fallen out of favor in PA today. When I started hunting the woods were a mix of 760's and 30-30/.32 leverguns. Today bolt guns have largely replaced both. The 7600's never sold like the 760's because that's about the time bolt guns started taking over new gun sales.
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The name of the place was Laurelwood Inn and Steakhouse. It's on the left side of 6 heading toward Denton Hill out of Coudersport. It don't look like much from the outside but the food is great and ladies working there are nice. Just inside Sweden valley, great place. Next time you're up that way shoot me a message I'm not vry far from C.sport, and you really need to take the hour drive to Olena. To the beef N barrel
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The name of the place was Laurelwood Inn and Steakhouse. It's on the left side of 6 heading toward Denton Hill out of Coudersport. It don't look like much from the outside but the food is great and ladies working there are nice. Just inside Sweden valley, great place. Next time you're up that way shoot me a message I'm not vry far from C.sport, and you really need to take the hour drive to Olena. To the beef N barrel Will do, thanks! It may be a couple of years before we go back. 10 hours up Thursday pulling a camper on the worst route wasn't fun but we found a better way home 
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It's neat to see all the interest in these rifles. They have fallen out of favor in PA today. When I started hunting the woods were a mix of 760's and 30-30/.32 leverguns. Today bolt guns have largely replaced both. The 7600's never sold like the 760's because that's about the time bolt guns started taking over new gun sales. Down here it was 30-30s and 742s with an occasional pump. The fancy guys had Brownings.
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Central VA was all .30-30/.32 levers of the 336 and 94 persuasion, with the RARE bolt gun (almost always a .270 or .30-06). When the 7mmRMs started showing up, so did the 7400s and BARs. There's a lot more bolt guns now, but still a damned decent percentage of levers.
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Several sporterized Mausers and such too.
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It's neat to see all the interest in these rifles. They have fallen out of favor in PA today. When I started hunting the woods were a mix of 760's and 30-30/.32 leverguns. Today bolt guns have largely replaced both. The 7600's never sold like the 760's because that's about the time bolt guns started taking over new gun sales. That's how it was in the Catskills back when I started hunting too. Mostly lever guns in .30-30/.32 special/.35 Rem. and 760's and 742's in .30-06/.270. Course that was before everybody started spending the whole day/season perched in a tree.
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Several sporterized Mausers and such too. There were maybe five guys I knew growing up that didn't use a .30-30/.32 lever, and one of them used a 99 in .300 Savage. No Mausers or Enfields or Springfields; the only bolt guns were one guy with a Weatherby (and he never killed a damned thing), and a couple Remingtons. That was it; everyone else ran levers. When the deer population started booming, the rifles carried started diversifying.
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Come to think of it I do recall a few guys using sporterized Krags and SMLE's too. You couldn't hardly go into a gun shop around here back then without seeing a couple krags and/or smellys in the racks and they were dirt cheap too.
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Ditto here, but I never recall seeing anyone carry one or knowing anyone who did.
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That is pretty much the way my early years in Pa. were.. Most guys had 30-30's, .32 spl. a few .35 Rem. one model 30 that I know of and several pumps. My Grandfather shot an open sighted m.54 '06. My dad a .32 spl. I broke in on the .32. Many of my cousins had .300 Savages, one aunt had a .250 m.99.
My older hunting pal had a .270.. By the time I was in high school and college,things began to change a great deal..My neighbor had used a .30-30 and a prewar .30-06 most of his life bought the first .264 in the country.. He used this and a pump .270 during the later years of his life.
The 30-06 pump began to replace the .30-30 for those who hunted and had little interest in firearms. The .243 and 7mm Mag became popular with the guys who liked guns..
The guy who almost always killed a buck each fall used an old .35 Rem. pump from the close of WW2 until about "65..
He bought a 721 .300 H & H and later had it rechambered for a .300 Wea. He killed a pile of bucks with it the years I knew him. Now in that country I see lots of slide actions, but more bolt actions.
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Otter,
The name of the place was Laurelwood Inn and Steakhouse. It's on the left side of 6 heading toward Denton Hill out of Coudersport. It don't look like much from the outside but the food is great and ladies working there are nice. Just inside Sweden valley, great place. Next time you're up that way shoot me a message I'm not vry far from C.sport, and you really need to take the hour drive to Olena. To the beef N barrel Will do, thanks! It may be a couple of years before we go back. 10 hours up Thursday pulling a camper on the worst route wasn't fun but we found a better way home Don't tell.me you came 120, to 44 and up through the gap
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The GPS sent us that way  We did see every small town in Central PA along the way
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Like blackheart said, the bolt action took over when guys quit the deer drives and took to the trees. When deer drives were all the rage a lot of value was placed on a quick second shot. I can remember the Mennonite bear and deer drives where 25 guys mostly carried 760 30-06's.
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Do you remember coming through cross fork?
Used to be a town of several thousand
And yes 6 back to 15 is a much better ride
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Oh, ya, Cross Fork is a cool place. I sure enjoy visiting that country when I get to Pa.
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Oh, ya, Cross Fork is a cool place. I sure enjoy visiting that country when I get to Pa. Very surprising history, we do a lot of work around leidy and cross fork
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We usually head to Cross Fork for a libation at Deb's when we are on Kettle fishing. Camp is just up the road from Wharton. Truly is God's country.
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Do you remember coming through cross fork?
Used to be a town of several thousand
And yes 6 back to 15 is a much better ride
Yes I do. Looks like I could have made a side trip to Grices too.
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