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December 14, 2009
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Great story! Thanks and thank Jim for his service to his country. About 50 years ago ,when I was a game warden, I was also scouting for old guns on Manitoulin Island in Ontario while doing a resident deer hunter survey. I went to a dilapidated old farmhouse and noticed a Winchester Model 92 rifle being used to hold the man door of a barn door open. The gun was in fair condition considering what it was being used for. I asked the farmer if he would sell the gun to me and I would also provide a nice hardwood stick to use to hold the door open. His reply was that the gun belonged to his aunt and that he couldn’t sell it. I went to the farm a month or so later during a heavy rainstorm and the gun was still outside in the rain holding the door open and got the same answer when I inquired about buying it. I gave up on ever buying that one.
December 14, 2009
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Tony, Thanks and even before becoming a game warden I lived up on the coast of James Bay and gathered up the old guns when I was with the Hudson’s Bay Company and a free trader buying furs and hauling freight.. I didn’t buy a model 12 Trench gun with bayonet for $40 that was sold to an Indian trapper. A year or two later when I inquired about the gun I was told “no good no more.”. Doubtless another “gem” that won’t make the surveys. LOl
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