Guy Miner
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- Apr 6, 2006
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Dad left me two Springfield 30-06 rifles, one is an all original WWII 03-A3 that I think I may have shared here already. It is terrific!
This one though has far more meaning to me. It's been in my life, all my life. Dad was a WWII veteran, and served in the Navy for several years after WWII. When he returned home, his father gave him this rifle, which he had "sporterized" into a rather nice hunting rifle.
Bolt is jeweled, military trigger is pretty decent, full length stock. It wore nice sights until the late 1970's when Dad was having a tough time out-shooting me while I used my scoped rifle... So Mom and I bought him this 2-7x Redfield Widefield. Suddenly, Dad was out-shooting me again!
Dad and his brother took their 30-06's bear hunting once. Dad was mostly a bird hunter. Never saw a bear.
This is the first centerfire rifle I ever shot! I think I was about 10 years old. Yes, it knocked me back. Dad usually kept a box of 220 grain Winchester Silvertip ammo handy, in case something needed shooting. We handloaded it with 130 grain Speer hollow points for ground squirrels, jackrabbits, rockchucks etc... That worked really well! He let me take it deer hunting once when I was in high school, and he carried it along with me on another deer hunt when I was in college. We didn't get deer on either of those trips.
I don't think that this good old rifle has ever taken game, but I'm looking forward to hunting with it this coming season. I may go old style and load up some 220 grain round-nose soft point bullets for it. Why not?
When my sons shoot it, four generations of our family will have fired this rifle over a period of 70+ years.
Regards, Guy
This one though has far more meaning to me. It's been in my life, all my life. Dad was a WWII veteran, and served in the Navy for several years after WWII. When he returned home, his father gave him this rifle, which he had "sporterized" into a rather nice hunting rifle.
Bolt is jeweled, military trigger is pretty decent, full length stock. It wore nice sights until the late 1970's when Dad was having a tough time out-shooting me while I used my scoped rifle... So Mom and I bought him this 2-7x Redfield Widefield. Suddenly, Dad was out-shooting me again!
Dad and his brother took their 30-06's bear hunting once. Dad was mostly a bird hunter. Never saw a bear.
This is the first centerfire rifle I ever shot! I think I was about 10 years old. Yes, it knocked me back. Dad usually kept a box of 220 grain Winchester Silvertip ammo handy, in case something needed shooting. We handloaded it with 130 grain Speer hollow points for ground squirrels, jackrabbits, rockchucks etc... That worked really well! He let me take it deer hunting once when I was in high school, and he carried it along with me on another deer hunt when I was in college. We didn't get deer on either of those trips.
I don't think that this good old rifle has ever taken game, but I'm looking forward to hunting with it this coming season. I may go old style and load up some 220 grain round-nose soft point bullets for it. Why not?
When my sons shoot it, four generations of our family will have fired this rifle over a period of 70+ years.
Regards, Guy