Thebear_78
Handloader
- Sep 30, 2004
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I was going thru the mewe classified pages local here to Alaska the other day and stumbled across an interesting rifle. It was a Winchester 94 in 30-30 with Lyman peep. The price was right, and I have always had a soft spot for the 30-30.
When I messaged the guy it brought up a series of PMs. That I had apparently had two years ago about the same rifle. Where he had bought it from me! I had totally forgotten about it. No wonder I liked the look of it so much! So I bought it back for $50 less than I had sold it to him.
This isn’t the first time I had sold a rifle and then later bought it back. It might seem I buy and sell guns to often. Well at least the selling part.
Still in the case I sold it to him in with the box of shells I had thrown in. He had never gotten around to shooting it.
A nice 70s Winchester 94, not a collector but an honest shooter with some cosmetic “character” but fully functional with a light, albeit floppy, trigger, a bright clean bore, and good 2.5-3” 100 yard gun.
I took it to the range and burned up 3boxes of shells. It’s no tack driver but it was pretty easy to keep my 9x12” steel plate swinging at 100 yards offhand.
I think I’m going to use it for black bear over bait this year. I can’t think of a better rifle for the purpose. 170gr nosler Partition and 170 hornady interlocks @ 1975-1990fps. Either bullet should do nicely.
How many of you have boomerang rifles?
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When I messaged the guy it brought up a series of PMs. That I had apparently had two years ago about the same rifle. Where he had bought it from me! I had totally forgotten about it. No wonder I liked the look of it so much! So I bought it back for $50 less than I had sold it to him.
This isn’t the first time I had sold a rifle and then later bought it back. It might seem I buy and sell guns to often. Well at least the selling part.
Still in the case I sold it to him in with the box of shells I had thrown in. He had never gotten around to shooting it.
A nice 70s Winchester 94, not a collector but an honest shooter with some cosmetic “character” but fully functional with a light, albeit floppy, trigger, a bright clean bore, and good 2.5-3” 100 yard gun.
I took it to the range and burned up 3boxes of shells. It’s no tack driver but it was pretty easy to keep my 9x12” steel plate swinging at 100 yards offhand.
I think I’m going to use it for black bear over bait this year. I can’t think of a better rifle for the purpose. 170gr nosler Partition and 170 hornady interlocks @ 1975-1990fps. Either bullet should do nicely.
How many of you have boomerang rifles?
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