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Note the piebald peppering:

Lovin' it!

My EDC, and has been for many years.



Colt's Lightweight Commander .45 ACP; Kramer Pro-Line horsehide holster; McCormick 8 round mags; Milt Sparks mag pouch.

L.W.

No need to have a 'dirty gun'! Guns are on battleships BTW!!

This one is only a couple years old and still in the break-in phase.

Month ago.



This one is about 15 years old and is pretty much broke in.

Today, fencing/truck gun.


And of course it doubles as a horse gun.

Few years ago.

Those are some lovely guns, ladies.

Here's a real working gun. Bought used off a competitive trapshooter more than 30 years ago. I shot a little trap with it and used if for several years with the original 30" Full. Even killed my first deer with it using that barrel. Carried it in the rain, dropped it out of a tree once, it's seen a hard life. It was my Do-All for many years. It has easily passed 2 tons of lead through it's muzzle.
My favorite part of it is the stock. The original owner used shims to adjust the drop, which turned out not to be such a good idea as the stock has chipped because of it. But the fat stock is very comfortable to shoot. Sabot slugs off a bench are no problem with it. The weight is about perfect, coming in around 10lbs scoped for deer.

In 1933, Earl Ozel Osbon was a homeless waif of 11, living in filthy squalor in a barn on a ramshackle ranch a few miles southeast of Lander Wyoming. My parents, who were childless at the time, paid the rancher $50.00, took the boy from the ranch and informally adopted him as their own. The family soon found employment at Torrey Lake Ranch, near Dubois, where they lived until 1942.

After being homeschooled to an 8th grade level, Earl spent his teenage years working as a cowboy on several Dubois area ranches. In 1940, he enlisted in the Navy and spent all of World War II in the Pacific Theatre. A career Navy man, he also served throughout the Korean conflict. He died tragically in 1956 while still serving his country.

After a summers work on the Double Diamond ranch near Dubois, Earl accepted this rifle as partial payment of wages. He made the scabbard himself and carried the rifle on his saddle for the remainder of his years as a cowboy. When Earl enlisted in the Navy, he left the rifle with his foster father , who then passed it to me, his son . I used the rifle for hunting occasionally, the last time in 2009, harvesting a bull moose only a mile or so from the old Double Diamond ranch. I also shot it quite a bit in Metallic Silhouette.

The rifle is an 1886 Winchester, caliber .33 WCF, made in 1907 and shows the scars of years in the saddle and in hunting camps.

Last Summer, my wife and I donated the rifle, the scabbard and a pair of Earls spurs to the Lander Pioneer Museum. The Museum was very happy to receive the items, and made them a central part of their cowboy memorabilia. There was a nice article in the local paper about the donation, which brought about a truely astonishing event .

Soon after the article was published, I received a call from an elderly lady who told me she had known Earl and wanted me to come over, which I did. It turned out that she, Marie, had been Earls first love, his girlfriend all during his cowboy days in Dubois. He had proposed during the war, but she had turned him down, something she said she had regretted over the years. She gave me some pictures taken of him and his group of friends back in the 1930's and when he was home on leave in 1942. Marie is now my only link to my beloved foster brother, I left her home with tears in my eyes. These are the things that can only happen in small town America.

Here are some pix of the rifle:

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Same shotgun in all pics.














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So, you ever going to get started breaking it in, or what?

That's too purty...

jeez,.....just had to post this song.
What a "One hell of a story" you just laid down

Thanks ,

GTC

jnyork, wow what a story. Thanks for sharing it. GRF

Washington State Patrol Model 12

Great story and a beautiful old treasure you have there!

My M700 .270win. gets used a lot when I don't want to tear up my nicer pieces. It spends a lot of time on the atv gun rack.







My dads Marlin .30-30 has some character marks too.

I bought this 760 new in '77. It's been used in rain for a week, snow, and sleet. High Brass owns it now. That's his buck.