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Nice job on the refinish, the stock looks great. While my HS rifle team had Winchester 52's and Springfield 1922 M2's I sometimes shot the Mossberg 144's and did about as well with them as with the 52's and M2's. For more of a utilitarian type rifle they shot very well in my experience.
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Imagine me being left handed what a bitch shooting prone. I moved on to an Anschutz 1813L but Ill always love this rifle.
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I used one of those for a couple years when I first started shooting competitively. Shot pretty good for a cheap rifle. Not quite as good as the Winchester 52D I went to later but still pretty darn good.
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I like that a lot, very nice.
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I won a few postal matches and a couple of trophies shooting the 144US in high school. I need to get one.
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We kept them in a couple of tall, school lockers in a classroom. Probably about 10 of us students had the combo to the lockers. Times they have changed.
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Very nice. Let us know how you do at the range
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Nice work. Mine (cmp) is a tack driver
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Next I'll post the Kimber 82 Government I'm in the process of restoring.
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Imagine me being left handed what a bitch shooting prone. I moved on to an Anschutz 1813L but Ill always love this rifle. I had a left handed mod. 144. It had an aperture site and someone carved a squirrel on the for end. Shot lights out but I sold it for an Anshutz. Was always worried I would lose the magazine.
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I had one of those for many years. Bought it off the President of a gun club that I was a member of when I was stationed in Nebraska. I removed the Lyman 48 peep and replaced it with a scope and for many years it was my primary squirrel rifle. Yes it was heavy but it was very accurate. I shot that rifle a lot in competition too.
About a year ago I sold it off because it was replaced by my CZ-452. Even though I bought the CZ about 15 years ago I still kept that 144 around for sentimental reasons.
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We had several 144s for our high school rifle team. I shot a Winchester 52, and there were a couple 40Xs, too, but mostly Mossbergs. Mossbergs or not, we usually cleaned the clocks of the JROTC teams we shot against. (It was the singers, not the song, we had excellent coaches, they had NCOs who were assigned the job "in addition to other duties").
The Mossbergs in my fellow shooters hands would beat those Anschutz rifles packed by those JROTC kids virtually every match.
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