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Offline scotsman

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Re: Old rifles and Blacktails
« Reply #15 on: November 26, 2024, 10:12:38 AM »
Not a deer, but good story. When I was a little kid my folks did not have any money so rented out a spare bedroom. It was rented to a fellow who was in the Navy, and when he got transferred out he could not take his rifle: a Winchester model model 69, .22 long rifle’semi - target’. He gave the rifle to my dad when I was just 4 or 5 years old, and when I was about 10 Dad started to teach me how to shoot it. At 13, Dad let me keep the rifle in my room as long as I took the bolt out and hid  it from my friends…  Dad was very safety conscious and told me in no uncertain terms if I ever did anything stupid he would take it away and never let me shoot with him again. That was a serious threat. We had great times plinking in the woods and later I did a little bit of rabbit and grouse hunting with it. It’s really accurate and can hold 3” groups at 100 yards.

Fast-forward about 60 years; I got a call from my granddaughter saying there was a coyote on their back deck, eyeing their chickens and it would not run away when she yelled at it: she asked me if I could bring some broadheads for her bow, but I said in a case like this it sounds like need for a firearm. I grabbed the trusty old 22 and half an hour later I with her walking their property on the Key Peninsula.  She guided me on a couple of trails and as we walked a Ridge saw  the coyote 50 yards away  sitting in a clearing looking at us. I sat down, snugged the sling as dad taught me and touched the 2# trigger. End of coyote.

That was the perfect time for me to have a firearms talk with her which led to a plinking session. She thanked me and said she’d never forget this time together.



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Re: Old rifles and Blacktails
« Reply #16 on: November 26, 2024, 03:42:52 PM »
Not a deer, but good story. When I was a little kid my folks did not have any money so rented out a spare bedroom. It was rented to a fellow who was in the Navy, and when he got transferred out he could not take his rifle: a Winchester model model 69, .22 long rifle’semi - target’. He gave the rifle to my dad when I was just 4 or 5 years old, and when I was about 10 Dad started to teach me how to shoot it. At 13, Dad let me keep the rifle in my room as long as I took the bolt out and hid  it from my friends…  Dad was very safety conscious and told me in no uncertain terms if I ever did anything stupid he would take it away and never let me shoot with him again. That was a serious threat. We had great times plinking in the woods and later I did a little bit of rabbit and grouse hunting with it. It’s really accurate and can hold 3” groups at 100 yards.

Fast-forward about 60 years; I got a call from my granddaughter saying there was a coyote on their back deck, eyeing their chickens and it would not run away when she yelled at it: she asked me if I could bring some broadheads for her bow, but I said in a case like this it sounds like need for a firearm. I grabbed the trusty old 22 and half an hour later I with her walking their property on the Key Peninsula.  She guided me on a couple of trails and as we walked a Ridge saw  the coyote 50 yards away  sitting in a clearing looking at us. I sat down, snugged the sling as dad taught me and touched the 2# trigger. End of coyote.

That was the perfect time for me to have a firearms talk with her which led to a plinking session. She thanked me and said she’d never forget this time together.

Cool story, she needs a pellet gun to practice with. My grandson is five now , probably getting him a pellet gun next year for his bday that we’ll use together.

From sixth grade on I had access to every gun my dad had after hunters safety course and my brother who was two year older as supervision.

That’s when I saved my money and got a marlin .22 semiautomatic I purchased from the Coast to Coast store in Colfax. Put thousands of rounds down that, it still shoot great today.
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Re: Old rifles and Blacktails
« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2024, 04:08:58 PM »
It’s been on my mind to dust off my Dads old 257 Robert’s. He loved shooting Whitetails in South Dakota with that gun.

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Re: Old rifles and Blacktails
« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2024, 07:34:09 PM »
I bought a 30-30 to do this.
Rapidly figured out my eyes couldn't do the iron sight focus!!!

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Re: Old rifles and Blacktails
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2024, 08:28:19 PM »
Super cool hearing everyone's stories! I'm glad to see there's still so many old rifles knockin em down out there!

 


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