Leveritis...Never Sleeps..........

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.45colt
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Leveritis...Never Sleeps..........

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Yesterday after Church, Momma wanted to go shoppin. I said O.K. as there is a Tractor Supply on one side of Her Clothing store and a newer sporting goods on the other.
The sporting Goods is always well stocked but they don't give anything away, usually MSRP. I walk along the gun counter and on the wall I see some used rifles. I see a Marlin Bulls eye poking out from behind a sling. Prolly a .22 I think. I ask the clerk about it He says it's a .218 Bee. :shock: . He gets it down, it's missing the plug screws from a mounted scope, lite fine rust here and there and the stock is bone dry like an old, old, gun.
I look at the tag on it, $349.00 W/ammo.... any reason I had was out the window. 70 pieces of brass and 20 loaded rounds. It came home. an hour of rubbing the metal down with a cloth and some rem-oil and the stock with Momma's furniture oil and a 70% gun improved dramatically. I took it out back and fired five rounds shoots fine. now for dies more brass and bullets. :) .
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Yeah! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Gotta keep your eyes open for bargains.
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Lots of folks would pass that one by, figuring it is chambered in "some old weird cartridge", and "besides, I thought all leverguns were 30-30's".

That is a GOOD thing, 'cuz it makes those of us who appreciate such things occasionally get lucky... 8)
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Good find.
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Sounds like the find; and deal of the year so far :mrgreen:
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I agree with 3leg.
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that's A GOOD fIND!!!!!,,,DT
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A post like this needs pictures! :)
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Dusty Texian wrote:that's A GOOD fIND!!!!!,,,DT

I'd have to disagree... that's aGREAT!!! find!!! Congratulations. I'd have done the same.
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claybob86 wrote:A post like this needs pictures! :)
YEP
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I agree Guys about the pictures. I don't have a cell phone, my camera is junk and the last time I tried the photo bucket thing it wouldn't work no matter what I did. I was just a little upset. I'll have to get My Son over Here to do it for Me.
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What a steal! Just whereabouts in Ohio is this place?
Might have to visit.

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Top Secret Jason.....I know You have made some sweet finds over the years, over on the west side....Greater Cleveland is a large area.................................... :shock: :lol: .
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great buy !
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that's a awesome find & a seldom found deal
I try to carry enough cash on me in case leveritis kicks in where I may have to self medicate



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Griff wrote:Gotta keep your eyes open for bargains.
Yep....it never fails that you're broke when you find a deal....I went to the Post Office today with a pocket full of change to buy a Money Order to mail away for a gun :D

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If a guy spends enough time haunting the gunshops and has the knowledge on these nice old guns,
the old saying of "being in the right place at the right time" happens a whole lot more often to him than the guy who eats cheese doodles in front of a football game tv screen.

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