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02-13-2012, 06:44 PM
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My father was a "sod-buster", plowing his farm out of the prairie in early 1900s. For many years all he had was some kind of a "38" my mother told me he carried when he sold cattle and had the proceeds in cash. Later He bought a Winchester Model 12 in 12 gauge that was his means of protecting his farm from all kids of vermin. I have had possession of it since 1967 and am now going to turn it over to my son so he can protect it until his son is old enough to be the keeper. I have had a v-rib installed and had it reblued and have made a new stock and forearm that is ready for checkering. I shot some trap with it and it became my "money gun." My son knows the guns history.
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02-23-2012, 11:47 AM
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Modern folks think there is magic to the fancy guns, and I may be the worse at that.
When my grandfather died in 1984, I got the guns I learned to shoot and hunt with. Now he carried a Colt in a hip holster when he paid the farm hands in the fields on a folding table, as the big co-op farm's foreman. However, on his small farm he had a Remington 510 SS 22 LR which shot shorts all of its life and a Stevens 12ga single barrel. He shot deer and birds with the 12ga and anything else with the little 510, hogs, gators, steers, bob cats, etc. If you find the factory demo film (35 megs) on the Saiga shotgun on youtube, you will see a shotgun that the Russian military has turned into quite a weapon. Ed
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