Well Bullwnkl maybe I have an unfair advantage on that one. As a kid almost 1/2 the pickups I ever rode in had one of those in the gun rack (don't all picks have those?) or behind the seat. Most were the 30/30 over 12. Of course growing up on a ranch in Montana did have an influance on my upbringng (thank God
). To most they were just a tool for the bager digging holes in your freshly planted fields, to 00 buck for yotes during lambing or calfing time. To making noise with #6 to keep the crows off the seed, and if they were out there a 30/30 at one in the group would move them.
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<br>In the fall good to have handy when checking fence and the parie goats got a tad to curious, you now did not need to spend a day lookin them up for the freezer. And if we need a break and in the right place a quick walk for sage hens was always nice. These guns were never treated gentle like, but they worked very well. It would be laughable to think of slicking ones of these up with pertty metal work and such considuring what we did to them. Heck to know who's it was a lot of them just had the owners intital 'carved' somewhere in the butt stock, usally with a pocket knife. The most impressive ownership mark I saw was the fella that put the branding iron to it when he had a moment branding. There was no mistaking that one. That was the most 'custom' M24 I saw.
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<br>BTW I am sitting here sipping my own, waiting for the next go around on this. If I can get that on the first try will you buy?