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An oldie but a goodie,1971 Begium Browning BLR .308 Win
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2883813" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>I love those oldie goodie rifles. The older I get (I'm 31, not there yet <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />)the more I'm really intrigued by guns like this, or even more so the things that aren't made anymore, or "ain't made like they used to be", or random oddball things you can't just go get at cabelas. </p><p></p><p>My "oldie but goodie" that compares to your rifle here is an old savage 99 from that same era in .243 Winchester. It has history. My great uncle gave it to me when I was 14 after he suffered a massive heart attack, survived, and decided he wanted to be closer to his whole family - I hadn't met the man once in the first 14 years of my life - hell of a way to introduce yourself haha. I was given one condition- don't sell it and make sure it stays in the family. Having four kids of my own now, it certainly will. There is an ugly, glaringly obvious vertical line in the buttstocj where the man straight up sawed a few inches off the back so the length of pull would be more natural for his 10 year old boy back in the day…as the boy grew into a man that piece of stock got epoxied back on. No issues. It's a character scar haha. </p><p></p><p>I stand to inherit my dads marlin 336 and my wife her fathers made in 1957 Winchester 94, both 30-30s of course, hopefully that doesn't happen for a long time for either of us. But sometime far ahead I do smile at the thought of my 3 sons each taking a family heirloom levergun into the bush during whitetail season. As for my daughter…she can make them all insecure and shoot the 300 win mag <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2883813, member: 109862"] I love those oldie goodie rifles. The older I get (I’m 31, not there yet 🤣)the more I’m really intrigued by guns like this, or even more so the things that aren’t made anymore, or “ain’t made like they used to be”, or random oddball things you can’t just go get at cabelas. My “oldie but goodie” that compares to your rifle here is an old savage 99 from that same era in .243 Winchester. It has history. My great uncle gave it to me when I was 14 after he suffered a massive heart attack, survived, and decided he wanted to be closer to his whole family - I hadn’t met the man once in the first 14 years of my life - hell of a way to introduce yourself haha. I was given one condition- don’t sell it and make sure it stays in the family. Having four kids of my own now, it certainly will. There is an ugly, glaringly obvious vertical line in the buttstocj where the man straight up sawed a few inches off the back so the length of pull would be more natural for his 10 year old boy back in the day…as the boy grew into a man that piece of stock got epoxied back on. No issues. It’s a character scar haha. I stand to inherit my dads marlin 336 and my wife her fathers made in 1957 Winchester 94, both 30-30s of course, hopefully that doesn’t happen for a long time for either of us. But sometime far ahead I do smile at the thought of my 3 sons each taking a family heirloom levergun into the bush during whitetail season. As for my daughter…she can make them all insecure and shoot the 300 win mag 🤣 [/QUOTE]
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