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I brought Dad's old guns home -- now what
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strangenh
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Rem and Hornady make good hunting ammo for the .32 Win Special. Friend of mine has a very early Winchester model - 1st year - in a cavalry stock with steel buttplate. It seemed surprisingly punchy for a cartridge I expected to feel like a .30-30... maybe that was the stock talking! Anyhow, the current production commercial ammo (we shot both the Rem and Hornady) is definitely MODeer to 100m, and even brand new shooters managed to hit 12" gongs every shot at that range with the peep sights. It's probably ~2-3 MOA in reality but we never shot paper with it
Muzzle in a safe direction, you never know.
dwarven1
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JayMcB
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Based on the age and the lack of rounds down range, if you are interested in selling the .22, let me know.
My son is crazy for .22's and an antique bolt would make a nice Christmas present, especially if we get to send some 'man time' getting it back into shooting shape
My son is crazy for .22's and an antique bolt would make a nice Christmas present, especially if we get to send some 'man time' getting it back into shooting shape
The 94 looks to be a pre-64 in excellent condition. Fairly obscure caliber, but that's not too much of a detriment to value.
I own the same JC Higgins .22. Excellent rifle. Dead nuts accurate and feeds everything from shorts and colibris to high velocity LR. I put a 4x32 scope on mine. They don't have serial numbers, so they were made prior to 1968, but probably no earlier than the 50's.
The shotgun is just a basic single shot from the first half f the 20th century. Nothing special, shitloads of them were made by many different companies and they're all pretty much the same.
I don't really know amuch about that roll over breach loader. It's probably a conversion from a cap lock musket, given the lock style. A guy I went to school with rebarreled one like that for .45 LC. Ended up being a neat little carbine.
I own the same JC Higgins .22. Excellent rifle. Dead nuts accurate and feeds everything from shorts and colibris to high velocity LR. I put a 4x32 scope on mine. They don't have serial numbers, so they were made prior to 1968, but probably no earlier than the 50's.
The shotgun is just a basic single shot from the first half f the 20th century. Nothing special, shitloads of them were made by many different companies and they're all pretty much the same.
I don't really know amuch about that roll over breach loader. It's probably a conversion from a cap lock musket, given the lock style. A guy I went to school with rebarreled one like that for .45 LC. Ended up being a neat little carbine.
I didn't have a .22 bolt action before, so this one is especially interesting to me. I'll be keeping it, and trying it once I get a chance to.
By the way, I have a new problem... the musket / breach loader is ridiculously long, longer than anything else I have, and won't fit in my larger safe. Now I need a new safe. (Yup, spend $500 to store a $50 gun.... LOL)
You're in NH, just lean it in a corner of your bedroom (loaded of course).
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KBCraig
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I don't believe in owning guns I can't shoot, although I do own a few I just haven't gotten around to yet. If the '94 is truly unfired, I'd leave it that way and accept the premium price it would bring with that (Marbles?) sight, then buy one similar to shoot.
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