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OK, this is going to be a bit long, because there's a story:
I was born in urban Ontario. My grandparents owned an expansive year-round place in Muskoka (was their cottage, became their retirement home) and my grandfather had several WWII vintage .303's behind the door to his study which my buddy (whose cottage was across the bay) and I used to check out when my grandfather wasn't about. I was always fascinated with firearms (what boy isn't?) and had a pretty decent break-barrel pellet gun around the same time.
We moved down east to an extreme rural location in the early 1990's. My dad bought a very large Cape Cod house (that he later added on to) on a 5 acre parcel that backed onto thousands of acres of marsh. I became fast friends with a guy a year younger than me a couple of doors down and he had a Remington pump .22LR that we'd plink with.
Well, probably around 1997, he was approached about trading a spare weight set he had for a Winchester 30-30. He jumped on the opportunity and he and I were now in possession (under his dad's "supervision") of something with a fair bit more jam than the old .22.
We had setup an old console television in his driving shed on a set of sawhorses and shot it with the .22. The round ricocheted and came back quite near us, scaring the crap out of us. We ducked behind the door/wall of the back porch and fired again. Same result. This presented as a key opportunity to exercise the 30-30, which we had just spent $20.00 on a box of shells for (Winchester brand of course).
Kabloomm! The TV imploded, it was incredible! We were both really stoked and excited about this lever gun and took it down on the marsh to shoot some cans, bottles...etc.
While I've amassed some beautiful rifles over the years, I've somehow managed to skip over another lever gun.
My wife surprised me today with a very high-end version of that particular rifle, chambered in 30-30:
Price was considerable (north of $2K) because of the finish and being the Deluxe Sporting version. Super excited to try it out when my rib cage finishes healing (LOL!).
Interestingly, this rifle is made in Japan, which I was surprised at. Fit and finish seems to be excellent, we'll see how it shoots!
I was born in urban Ontario. My grandparents owned an expansive year-round place in Muskoka (was their cottage, became their retirement home) and my grandfather had several WWII vintage .303's behind the door to his study which my buddy (whose cottage was across the bay) and I used to check out when my grandfather wasn't about. I was always fascinated with firearms (what boy isn't?) and had a pretty decent break-barrel pellet gun around the same time.
We moved down east to an extreme rural location in the early 1990's. My dad bought a very large Cape Cod house (that he later added on to) on a 5 acre parcel that backed onto thousands of acres of marsh. I became fast friends with a guy a year younger than me a couple of doors down and he had a Remington pump .22LR that we'd plink with.
Well, probably around 1997, he was approached about trading a spare weight set he had for a Winchester 30-30. He jumped on the opportunity and he and I were now in possession (under his dad's "supervision") of something with a fair bit more jam than the old .22.
We had setup an old console television in his driving shed on a set of sawhorses and shot it with the .22. The round ricocheted and came back quite near us, scaring the crap out of us. We ducked behind the door/wall of the back porch and fired again. Same result. This presented as a key opportunity to exercise the 30-30, which we had just spent $20.00 on a box of shells for (Winchester brand of course).
Kabloomm! The TV imploded, it was incredible! We were both really stoked and excited about this lever gun and took it down on the marsh to shoot some cans, bottles...etc.
While I've amassed some beautiful rifles over the years, I've somehow managed to skip over another lever gun.
My wife surprised me today with a very high-end version of that particular rifle, chambered in 30-30:
Price was considerable (north of $2K) because of the finish and being the Deluxe Sporting version. Super excited to try it out when my rib cage finishes healing (LOL!).
Interestingly, this rifle is made in Japan, which I was surprised at. Fit and finish seems to be excellent, we'll see how it shoots!
