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Nylon 66 MB received as a Christmas gift, which I still have.
Next came Remington 660s in 6MM and 222, a 788 in 22-250, a 700V in 22-250, and a couple of hundreds more over the past 57 years.
Today there are 81 on the books; 64 centerfire, 11 rimfire, 5 shotguns, and 1 muzzle loader.
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788 in 222. Buddy shot the head off a magpie at 150 yards with it and had to have it. He still has it 40 years later. Maybe I'll call him.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
LOL
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Model 12 C that was my grandfathers. I have it in my safe. I gave it to my son.
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Was in my 20s before I could afford a new rifle, and I wanted a left handed 700 really bad. Went into a local shop with a tax refund in my pocket looking for a 30-06 BDL. They had one lefty in stock, but it was in 270Win. Guy behind the counter thought I was just a tire kicker and kept trying to put my rifle back on the rack. I went to gathering up bullets, brass, primers, and powder, and he changed his tune when I pulled out the envelope of money. Can't recall exactly but I think the rifle was priced just north of $300. A lot of money to me back then.
Only thing left of that rifle now is the action, and it's been worked, bolt machined out for magnum bolt face, M16 extractor installed. Heavy Kreiger barrel, oversized lug, Schuler brake, surgeon DBM bottom metal, etc. I made the synthetic stock. 300WM.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
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First one I bought was a 700 BDL in 243 Win. Early 80s model.
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Great story VG. When I would come to Seattle for my annual 'blowout' from AK, in those days, late 60's early '70's, I think pier 48 was the terminal. I would make it a point to visit Warshal's Sporting Goods a couple blocks up from the waterfront...buy a rifle a trip, and a year's clothing and boots. One year I found a Remington model 30 Express, .30-06 of course, well used, in their rack...it was such an old sweetheart, I still have it and hunt with it at least a couple days a year, 50 plus years later. Funny thing though, it has gotten heavier in the last 50 years.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Remington 572 Fieldmaster. Bought it with summer job money when I was 14.
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my first new was a Rem m700 Mountain Rifle in '06 in 1990. it wasn't the best or the most accurate rifle (God knows i went thro so many manufactures bullets and powder!!!), but it was ok. then i bought Rem m700 A,B and CDL in 243 Winchester and '06. i got my ex wife a Rem m7 in 243 Win. then i got a Rem m760 in 308. all of these rifles were sold. back in the early to mid '90s i bought a Rem m7 in 7-08 (i have another one that was my dad's (RIP)). i also got from my dad the Rem m870 in 12ga, 16ga and 410, Rem m572 100 year anniversary in 22LR, Rem m760 in '06 and i forget what else. i have a Rem m14 in 30 Rem that i just adore.
"Russia sucks." ---- Me, US Army (retired) 12B & 51B
Russian Admiral said, after the Moskva sank, "we have the world's worst navy but we aren't as bad as our army".
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My first was a model 700 adl in 30-06 I bought used when I was 11. My grandpa worked at one of the sawmills in town and a coworker was getting rid of it. I had money saved up from mowing yards, shoveling roofs in the winter and any else I could do to make a dollar. It’s accounted for a lot of critters over the years. It’s actually at the gunsmith getting another barrel put on it now.
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My first was a 760 30-06 & strangely my last was a 760 carbine that is much older than the one I bought around 1980.
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A Remington 870 Upland Special in 20 gauge with a fixed IC choked barrel back in '89.
I was murder on grouse and bunnies in the thickets we hunted - should have never let it go. But I lusted after 20 gauge O/U and was still young and foolish.
Now a minty Model 7 FS from the same era chambered in 7mm-08 consoles me.
"Rhetoric is no substitute for reality." -Thomas Sowell
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A 552 Speedmaster, 22 rimfire. Multiple Model 700s and 1100s to follow. 😁
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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THinking my 870 was first, followed by an ADL in 22-250, then a Nylon 66.
The Nylon is still here, & about the most dependable item I think I've experienced in my life time.
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An 870 20ga Christmas morning 1982. It was almost just like the scene in the movie Christmas Story.
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a mod. 39 rem. pump 12 ga with a full choke cutts comp. on it . my uncle gave it to me in 1973, killed every thing with it for years . I gave it back to his grandson a good wile ago ,that young man is still on cloud 9 . he was to young to know him .so it is special to him
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Mine was a ‘03 or a 03-A3, not sure which was first. As far as civilian Remington, I had three 600 Mohawks/660’s about the same time. 22-250 (rebarreled) 308 and 350. I a 700 264 BDL shortly thereafter.
I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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Mine was a Nylon 11, of all things.
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541-T in the early eighties. And a 673 guide gun in 350 mag about the same time. The pile of grouse the 541 has piled up would be very impressive.
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