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Rick C
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August 19, 2025 - 11:59 pm
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Another shout out to WACA member Jeremy Scott. $1000 U.S. for this 33WCF full mag.

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I assume that $1000 is just a down payment…

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steve004 said
I assume that $1000 is just a down payment…
  

You would think so Steve but no Jeremy bought a collection and this one was available at a very good price. Grateful once again. 

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Very nice!

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Very nice! I’m a big 33 fan, have a few and one in that same configuration. Congrats on the good deal

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pine_worker said
Very nice!
  

cj57 said
Very nice! I’m a big 33 fan, have a few and one in that same configuration. Congrats on the good deal
  

Thanks! I’ve had a couple before but paid double that or more for them and like you cj57, I’m a fan of the 33. I personally think it’s a great cartridge and will harvest anything in North America imo. 

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Agreed. They were popular in Alaska-Canada and the Inter-mountain west.

Mine have grown on me and get carried around in the outback. Don’t forget

that Ben Lilly carried a FM 1886 in 33 Winchester for decades.

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450 Fuller said
Agreed. They were popular in Alaska-Canada and the Inter-mountain west.
Mine have grown on me and get carried around in the outback. Don’t forget
that Ben Lilly carried a FM 1886 in 33 Winchester for decades.
  

Read this about Lilly. “He was known many times to fight and dispatch in hand-to-hand combat bear and cougars using a self-made custom Bowie knife, more precisely a double edged S-shaped large Arkansas toothpick dagger, named “The Lilly Knife. For the rest he was an accomplished marksman and used a Winchester 1894 .30-30, when hunting mountain lion and black bear, and a Winchester 1886 in .33 Winchester for Grizzly.

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I believe the .33 Winchester was very popular in the Adirondacks during the first two decades of the last century as well.

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