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Professor Marvel:

--- Quote from: Dave T on April 10, 2021, 12:31:21 PM --- Since 43 Spanish isn't a cartridge you can run down to the gun shop and buy (even when gun shops had ammo) one wonders what the previous owner was thinking when he/she/it put that scope on. Curiouser and curiouser.

Dave

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Re the scope...
Bad Eyes?  If it was already cutdown, as a deer carbine, the owner most likely saw no harm.

I myself am running into that issue... Anything I want to shoot past 75 yards is getting a scope put on it, but in a manner that is not irredeemable. Ascetics and originality be damned, if I can't put the roundinto a teacup with my eyes at 175 yards it becomes a museum piece.

I see a progression in these old rifles.
Milsurp "fill in the blank" gets offered via Bannerman, hardware store or mail-order at $1.59 a pop.
Makes a great first deer rifle for the kid! Ah, but it is too long and too heavy, so we cut down the stock
And the barrel... Makes a satisfactory cheap deer carbine.

That crappy looking but good enough carbine gets passed around the family, may end up as a wagon gun or loaner, pretty soon gets shoved in the closet, if not tossed out. After all more modern stuff , betterer stuff is available by now, ( 1920?  1930? 1950? )

Eventually it comes out of the closet or attic. A more mature sort with the funds available might try to rebarrell, restock, or restore it... A more frugal fellow with less disposable cash just wants to make
G-grandpa's  "deer gun" shoot again and take another deer!  Or, turn it into the cheap first rifle for the latest sprout.... Again ... But with a scope for easy sighting....

Not everybody has $200 to drop on juniors first deer rifle, especially if he/she might not carry on the hunting tradition for whatever reason...  Have you seen the price of a new water heater lately? I shudder...

Better to have it shooting than to turn into a wall decoration.

Yhs
Prof marvbles

Drydock:
True.   A wise man once wrote: "History is not what it used to be."

Major 2:
You may want to avert your eyes  :(

Note: the aluminum PICATINNY mount for the scope , ( barrel is drilled for it w/ 3 screws ), there is also some kind of ramp front sight and a V  block rear sight.

 ::)

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Professor Marvel:

--- Quote from: Major 2 on April 11, 2021, 12:14:46 AM ---You may want to avert your eyes  :(

Note: the aluminum PICATINNY mount for the scope , ( barrel is drilled for it w/ 3 screws ), there is also some kind of ramp front sight and a V  block rear sight.

 ::)

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Coooooooool .... that would go well with this tactical 1858




if its a pre '98 I would offer the man $50 ....

cuz I have a welder and a whole box of green mountain barrels... !

yhs
prof grumblebunny

DeaconKC:
That's just the sort of mud puppy I love to redeem! Seriously, if he would sell, I would like to make him an offer.

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