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February 6, 2010
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Yea they do not give the hoods away. You just would not think they would demand the price they get.
I just could not see this rifle go the rest of its life with out the hood. How it disappeared I have no idea but the rifle is new and still in the box. Never been shot. There is not a flaw on it anywhere. Like in a time box since 1989. The guy I got it from bought it new and said he never saw a hood on it. Go figure.
Tomorrow I will be shooting it and the new in the box will be no longer. Although I will keep the box in good shape.
Steve
January 20, 2023
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They really need to be shot. The difference in resale price between an unfired nib and a well-kept with original box is not worth the loss of pleasurable use. Maybe that’s not true for an original Henry gifted by Abraham Lincoln to General U.S. Grant but most others anyway.
Many original Winchester 65 rifles were sufficiently accurate they got side-mounted scopes installed. I restored a Model 92 25/20 that had been scoped. After shooting it with a new Lyman tang sight I could see why — it is very accurate. The gun was built in 1929, after the introduction of non-corrosive primers and the bore is spotless, despite the indignities visited upon the exterior by various owners. [My gunsmith threw the original wood and all the screws away.]
The notion an 1892 rifle [or an 1894 Marlin] is too inaccurate for a varmint/small game cartridge is ignorant nonsense. Not good if you want to shoot into the next county with high tech optics but that is another game. Where I live, centerfire rifles are legal for wild turkey and a 25/20, Hornet or Bee is just right, if you handload cast bullets wisely. The same rifle, loaded hot, can make a coyote wish he’d lived a better life. The older I get the more sense these little rifles make.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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