Today's Local Gun Show Story - 04/14/24
All;
Greetings to you all, whenever you read this I hope the day has been behaving and this finds you well.
Today was the annual Penticton Gun Show, which means that firearm folks from a few hour drive north and south gather and bump into each other once more.
A long time friend, hunting and shooting partner came down from the north and his brother and his son came up from the south, along with a dozen other people that I know, but that's not the odd part of the tale.
I've mentioned that a couple now passed on shooting and reloading mentors had quite a marked effect on my life and one of them - Willy - was also a good friend of my friend and his brother.
When his brother's son was born or shortly after, Willy started to put together a special rifle for him.
At that point in our lives we were getting deep chambered barrel blanks up from IT&D in Ohio, this being pre 9/11 nobody cared and many came up to go onto Remington and Mauser 98 actions mostly.
The rifle Willy started for the son was a Mauser action with likely a Douglas barrel because that's what we bought, this one chambered in 6-06.
I want to say the stock was a blank from Richards Microfit in California, but that's a guess.
By this point in his life, Willy's health had began to fail and while the barreled action was fitted into the stock and I want to say I shot it for him a couple times too if I'm remembering the right project, the stock wasn't ever finished before his health didn't allow it.
When Willy passed, all the firearms including that project 6-06 went to his son who kept some and dispersed the rest.
Low and behold today at the gun show, as they were going through the various tables, there's an unmistakable Mauser action with the stock sort of finished, but not entirely fitted, which everyone remembers it was.
The chap selling it said he'd bought it years ago from a fellow in a city north of us - and then named Willy's son as the seller. He further stated that he'd had it out on the table at a couple dozen gun shows and nobody had showed much interest, so it went for much less than the price of the parts.
Of course it went home with the young fellow who was nigh onto speechless over finding his long lost rifle from a special person in his life when he was very young.
Therein ends the tale of today's most interesting gun show finds.
Thanks for reading and all the best.
Dwayne
Greetings to you all, whenever you read this I hope the day has been behaving and this finds you well.
Today was the annual Penticton Gun Show, which means that firearm folks from a few hour drive north and south gather and bump into each other once more.
A long time friend, hunting and shooting partner came down from the north and his brother and his son came up from the south, along with a dozen other people that I know, but that's not the odd part of the tale.
I've mentioned that a couple now passed on shooting and reloading mentors had quite a marked effect on my life and one of them - Willy - was also a good friend of my friend and his brother.
When his brother's son was born or shortly after, Willy started to put together a special rifle for him.
At that point in our lives we were getting deep chambered barrel blanks up from IT&D in Ohio, this being pre 9/11 nobody cared and many came up to go onto Remington and Mauser 98 actions mostly.
The rifle Willy started for the son was a Mauser action with likely a Douglas barrel because that's what we bought, this one chambered in 6-06.
I want to say the stock was a blank from Richards Microfit in California, but that's a guess.
By this point in his life, Willy's health had began to fail and while the barreled action was fitted into the stock and I want to say I shot it for him a couple times too if I'm remembering the right project, the stock wasn't ever finished before his health didn't allow it.
When Willy passed, all the firearms including that project 6-06 went to his son who kept some and dispersed the rest.
Low and behold today at the gun show, as they were going through the various tables, there's an unmistakable Mauser action with the stock sort of finished, but not entirely fitted, which everyone remembers it was.
The chap selling it said he'd bought it years ago from a fellow in a city north of us - and then named Willy's son as the seller. He further stated that he'd had it out on the table at a couple dozen gun shows and nobody had showed much interest, so it went for much less than the price of the parts.
Of course it went home with the young fellow who was nigh onto speechless over finding his long lost rifle from a special person in his life when he was very young.
Therein ends the tale of today's most interesting gun show finds.
Thanks for reading and all the best.
Dwayne