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My dad hunted chucks w a Ruger #1 in .22-250.
Am not a .22-250 fan.

Thought about rebarreling it to .243win and using it on chucks myself.

Or use the wood and action to have it redone into a deer rig.

Could just grease it up and put in back of safe as is
He quit shooting it 20 plus yrs ago.

Trying to figure out what he would have wanted.
Hed want me to USE it.

I should shoot a couple groundhogs this summer w it as is in honor of him. But after that.....

We just dont have the chucks anymore.

I know one of the guys that bought a farm dad used to hunt. Might ask him if i can kill one there for Pop.

Rebore to 250 Savage

If he'd want you to use it, do what needs to happen for it to be usable. If that's a deer rig, go for it. Some will say don't alter it... but sitting in the safe isn't much of an honor. The stock and lever are what he had his hands on, regardless of chamberings. Just my 2 cents.

Absolutely!!!!

Not a bad idea ! In fact I second that emotion !

Jerry

One of the few with easy bulk ammo right now:

https://www.sgammo.com/product/250-...core-lokt-psp-soft-point-remington-ammo-

I can see my son asking that question in a few years....

He has no real use for them..... and I think my wife, will want to bury them all when I get buried... or more likely cremated...

I thought it was always sad when someone had firearms they loved, and then pass, and they get thrown in a closet for 50 years rusting away...

I'll probably give each of mine to someone young who I know will use them, instead of rush down and hock them for the money...

I get sentimental about that sort of stuff if you can't tell....

I have a few firearms that belonged to my Granddads and an Uncle or two...

ended up with a Marlin 93, in 25.20 that belonged to a friend when he passed, that had been his grandfathers, that was bought new in like 1905 or so...
He had no children or nephews to pass it down to... I ended up with it, because he knew i'd appreciate the historical perspective on it, and knowing its history...

According to the .22 crowd you have a great deer rifle right there...

I have a bunch of "other people's" guns in my safe.
Only 1 or 2 have a real use for me.
I could take the heavy barrel22-250 Sako and rebarrel it.
But, then it wouldn't be Cousin Eddie's. (Seriously)
Or the same in number #1. Good friend Ralph's

Point is, I love those guns because they are "theirs", and they make
me think of those old friends. If I butcher them up and make them
mine, that is gone.

If the only thing left of the originals is the s tion, that is no longer
special. It's just a commodity.
Those people didn't buy an action, really.
They pondered and chose the round, and the stock. That's where
their heart was, and what made it theirs.

If I needed something different, I'd buy it.

JMHO. And if there isn't any sentimentality involved.
Sell it and go buy "your" gun.

I have enough stuff of my own.

3 daughters.

None will give a flip about my crap.

Am the last shooter in my fam.
My youngest has a genetic disorder and we never saw it before. And yeah.....she is my kid LOL

So....no grandchildren.

If it were mine, and a good shooter, I’d enjoy it as-is for a bit first. Loaded down, it might last a long time. Cut grainfields attract lots of stuff that make interesting targets, crows, barn pigeons, and starlings. A good barrel is a terrible thing to waste.

Doesn't seem there’s much sentiment attached to it, so do whatever you like. A 1B or 1V would take a lot of paring down to make into a handy deer rifle IMO.

In the end, they're all just things......

I inherited a few my Grandad's and Dad's guns, and with no offspring to pass down the line, I eventually sold them off for the funds to replace them with others that suited me better. I feel better about being in charge of where they end up, rather than the cold reality of someone else just getting rid of them for the sake of getting rid of them.

Everyone has different situations, there's no right or wrong answer......

Hook

So sorry to hear about your daughter’s condition.

Jerry

I’d leave it and hunt it every now and again

Thanks Jerry.
She has improved some, things are much better.

The #1 was hunted regularly for 15 or so yrs.
But never taken on a PD blast fest.
Could call Penrod and have him check it out.

No wrong answer here but if it were me and it had life left in it I would leave it as is and take it out from time to time and remember my dad. Not to say you couldn't do the same if you re-bore or re-barrel it but I would want it to be the same as it was when he was using it.

^^^ THIS ^^^

Dad quit using it yrs ago. And he had other rifles.
But this was his chuck rig the longest.

His lefty savage was rebarreled by Penrod. Way back.
He never shot it after. Pops was kinda funny sometimes.

This+10 hook, life will pass you by if you let go out spend sometime remembering your dad with rifle in hand Mb