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Dang! I must be gettin' old. Although I was just a kid, I remember when those guns came out as all the "old heads" were talkin' 'bout 'em.-------------Sixgun
The good old days when things were cheap and made good.
Because I Can, and Have
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USAF-72-76
God Bless America.
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"And $1.25/hour was the best wage in town."
--765x53
BINGO! A number of folks seem to remember how "supposedly" economical things were in the 1950's-60's, but forget about the low wages....
The most important aspect of this signature line is that you don't realize it doesn't say anything significant until you are just about done reading it & then it is too late to stop reading it....
Grand Poo Bah WA F.E.S.
In real life may you be the bad butt that you claim to be on social media.
1957 when I was 16 years old I paid $65 for my model 94 brand new. Still have it. I was getting $1.00 a hour working my butt off summers for green giant in a canning factory at the time. My ride was a 1946 chev that I also paid $65s for. Now its more than that every time I gas up! Wish I would have kept the chev. Here I am at about that age. I belive I shot the deer with my shotgun though as we lived in a shotgun slug only county in wisconsin.
I used to read every gun mag I could from my wages on the neighbours farm. The week I turned 18 and legal to buy a 444 I bought one. It is rare when a young man's impulse even remotely appears to be common sense. It turned out I bought the perfect Canadian hunting rifle. It still shoots straighter than I do four decades and more later!
Ah yes...my "go to" rifle, the .444 MArlin. My wife bought mine for me 25 years ago. I don't know what she payed, bought it from a friend who bought it new and never used it. I did chop the barrel to 20 inches and add a scout scope...the one in the pics on the South African Safari post....and it shoots like a house on fire..
I still use the original brass from the rounds she got when she bought the gun, and it has taken a few animals over the years, including my warthog in Africa.
The older Marlins, pre-safety, are just awesome guns that shoot forever..