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Post pics of your Brownings. My first deer rifle was a Browning A-bolt in .270 win. I worked all summer in 1997 throwning wheat straw bail, raking pine straw, and cutting grass to save up $325. (cheap child labor I was 12) The week before school started my father took me to Barrow Automotive in Butler, GA to look around and of course everything was out of my price range. I just knew I'd be hunting with his marlin 30-30 iron sights only again. (Now I take it once a year just to remember him) As I was standing there drueling a guy walked in with a rifle with rings on it with no scope wanting to trade it for something else. I thought the gun was beautiful! I heard him say it was a .270 which was what my best friend hunted with and that was what I was looking for. When the guy came back with his gun they told him they would give him $300 bucks trade in since it had the rings on it. My father immediatly looked at him and said "My boy here will up that bid to $325." The man looked down at me and said you sure you want this old thing and you sure can handle a .270. Of course I said yes sir and pulled out the cash and we swapped right there in the store. My father gave it a good lookover and shook hands with him. He then leaned down to me and said it sure is going to be hard to shoot that thing without a scope. I was so excited it didn't have iron sights because my father was old school and said iron sights was all you needed. He told the guy behind the counter to go grab a scope that wouldn't break the bank and he come back with a Simmons AETEC 3.8x12x44. My father bought that for me I was ready to go! I checked the serial number a couple years ago and the chart said it was made in 1987. I have since bought other deer rifles but I only hunt with them a few times and then I pick up that .270 and hunt with it the rest of the year. I guess it will always be my favorite since I had to work so hard for it. It is prob the most accurate gun I own. Here is a pic of it. Please share any stories on here you would like

Shag;
Thank you sir, it was my best to date.

It might interest you to know that this one came from the same height of land ridge that runs north south down to where you and I were talking about recently.


That was '87 or '88 and died in front of the BBR too.

It may or may not be of interest to you that this one died within a half mile of the first photo. Note the similarities in the antlers over the years.



Of course once they go to where I was writing about, they're no longer fair game for me - but might be for some other enterprising folks.

There is no way I killed the last decent whitetail on that ridge of land Shag, so just to get your juices flowing and all.

Have a good week Shag and all the best to you and yours.

Dwayne

edit PS;
With apologies to the OP as I know there's no Browning in either photo.

Stainless Stalker in .270win. Has accounted for many-many gut piles. Its one of the most accurate rifles I've ever owned and I've had a few..

Shag;
Thank you sir, it was my best to date.

It might interest you to know that this one came from the same height of land ridge that runs north south down to where you and I were talking about recently.


That was '87 or '88 and died in front of the BBR too.

It may or may not be of interest to you that this one died within a half mile of the first photo. Note the similarities in the antlers over the years.



Of course once they go to where I was writing about, they're no longer fair game for me - but might be for some other enterprising folks.

There is no way I killed the last decent whitetail on that ridge of land Shag, so just to get your juices flowing and all.

Have a good week Shag and all the best to you and yours.

Dwayne

edit PS;
With apologies to the OP as I know there's no Browning in either photo.