Considerations for Moose.

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Moose antlers? Ain't they Palmate or palms? It's a lot easier to mount optics on a side eject Marlin. One of my considerations while reducing the small arms locker was the move to Stainless Steel Barrels. Yet I couldn't part with the Marlin Lever Actions the Spouse got me while she worked for K-Mart. It's kind of got a cult following nowadays, and many have never even seen one. So a little gun porn, just so y'all can say they exist. .30-30 K-Mart Special.

Yeah, Montgomery Ward had them as well, Western Field Mod 72C aka Marlin .30-30's lever rifles. as well as Mossberg they called theirs the Mossberg Mod 472... I grab a couple of photos off the web. I remember as a kid seeing them in Hardware stores, and in the Sears & Roebuck catalog, I think they were called Ted Williams model or something like that, it could have been Winchester 94s but... I think there were some Marlins as well at some point. Just reminiscing, that was a very long time ago. Cheers

 

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Oh it's time that I feel the need for a related sea story! Up-Chuck Chuck, 6-3 258 lbs of Kankakee farmer at Milspec size was my deckmate on that canoe journey to the Moose Field. He had the Model 94 30-30 on that hunt. Well the sky grew light and we both managed to get perched on our stands. Along came a Bull Moose crashing through the Maine Elders at the edge of the swale, and neither of us could camber a round as we both climbed into our stands with empty chambers for safeties sake. Last I noticed Chuck placed his Kabar between his teeth as the Moose trotted under his stand. A shot from my position to his was out of the question even if I could have brought the model 71 to bare. To shorten things, Chuck took the plunge, the moose shook his palms like if bothered by a fly, and Chuck with a grunt drove up a cloud of mushroom spores so impressive it blocked my view. . I laughed so hard I fell out of the stand. When I managed to make it over to Chuck to ensure his safety, he was asking for the best of three tumbles. LMAO. This is no $h!t! ROTFLMAO