I remember seeing some wood rifle stocks of old, marked with pins representing the types and animals hunted with that particular rifle. Does anyone know what the pins are called and where can one find them for purchase?
Folks weren't that sophisticated around here the kill marks on old 30-30s and bubba'd mil surp bolt actions seem to be notches with a knife. The messier the job the better IME. Extra points for electro engraving their drivers license number by hand under the receiver
I spent an hour looking for those German pins and can't seem to find them, since google took over what we like or don't. Not a socialist by any means .... my experience with that is unequivocally negative.
El Toro was the Mexican bandit that saved Hopalong Cassidy from quicksand in the second Hopalong Cassidy movie, "The Eagle's Brood". In return, Hopalong swore to save El Toro's missing grandchild.
Like someone said on here earlier, quicksand hasn't turned out to be the problem I thought it would.
Gila monsters either! Thank God!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
From way back in my memory banks, I remember many years ago someone sold silver (?) markers resembling tacks with an engraving of animals on the head of the tack as a way to talley the animals one had taken.
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That's exactly what they are. Tacks that are pushed in the stock. Thank you hookeye, the look like that. Was wondering if there is anyone else crazy enough to engrave their rifles with the talley of animals taken. I remember thinking it was elegant. Surely, not if they are 45 of them, but maybe one for every specie? It seems to me that the rifle we take hunting would have some stories to tell too....
Not a fan of defacing my firearms. The second buyer won't care what game animals you took with it. If you don't think you'll remember later in your life, or, if you want your heirs who may inherit your firearm to know, write it down in a hunting journal.
Not a fan of defacing my firearms. The second buyer won't care what game animals you took with it. If you don't think you'll remember later in your life, or, if you want your heirs who may inherit your firearm to know, write it down in a hunting journal.
Some of us don't figure there's going to be a second buyer of a good gun until we're beyond caring.
I have a Remington 30S that has the pins you are talking about in the stock. Mine are gold. I think there are seven, would have to dig the rifle out and look. I remember searching for them one time and it seems like maybe it was something you could get through Safari Club International but I might be wrong.
