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Nice 90 Roger! I have an earlier LR made late 1923, that is crisp 99% on barrel, but frame flaked down to 40-50%, still a nice gun
Thank you Bert and cj57 for your replies. It seems that our guns take on a personality of their own as we view them. Just like a person does. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I can live with a scar or two. In fact I have a few scars of my own. Souvenirs from Viet Nam. 
RDB
rogertherelic said
Thank you Bert and cj57 for your replies. It seems that our guns take on a personality of their own as we view them. Just like a person does. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I can live with a scar or two. In fact I have a few scars of my own. Souvenirs from Viet Nam.
Thanks for your service there,spent “69” there myself.
rogertherelic said
Thank you Bert and cj57 for your replies. It seems that our guns take on a personality of their own as we view them. Just like a person does. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I can live with a scar or two. In fact I have a few scars of my own. Souvenirs from Viet Nam.
Many thanks for your Viet Nam service. As a Marine Reservist I missed that war, and I truly have a place in my heart for those that were called to go. Semper Fi Roger. Big Larry
Glad to serve my Country. Volenteering for Viet Nam was not one of my “better life decisions”. Thanks to ALL who served. GOD BLESS the USA! RDB
rogertherelic said
Volenteering for Viet Nam was not one of my “better life decisions”.
If you volunteered, you were one in a thousand, because most of those doing the fighting (as opposed to stocking warehouses, like a Marine friend of mine who never left Saigon) were draftees, who wished they were anywhere but Viet Nam.
I was going to college full time, working full time, married and my wife was pregnant. I came home from work or school, can’t remember which, and there were my draft papers. I spent 1 full year training and should have gone to Viet Nam but I went to Korea. Typical Government decision. I needed a certain class to be able to transfer from a community college to a state college. I didn’t realize what was going to happen to my student deferment. If I would have known I could have taken basket weaving or something similar and I wouldn’t have been drafted. It all worked out but my biggest regret of my life was that I was not present when my daughter was born. Any liberal ideas I had at that time died. So did any good feelings about Kennedy and Johnson died too.
clarence said
it’s like the face of a beautiful woman with a sickening burn scar on one side of her face
LOL, the older I get the more those scars become less apparent…
Chuck said If I would have known I could have taken basket weaving or something similar and I wouldn’t have been drafted.
Not sure basketry qualifies as being in the “national interest”; but signing up for Gender Studies would have earned you permanent deferment AND a generous scholarship.
clarence said
Chuck said If I would have known I could have taken basket weaving or something similar and I wouldn’t have been drafted.
Not sure basketry qualifies as being in the “national interest”; but signing up for Gender Studies would have earned you permanent deferment AND a generous scholarship.
Clarence, did you serve? Big Larry
Big Larry said
clarence said
Chuck said If I would have known I could have taken basket weaving or something similar and I wouldn’t have been drafted.
Not sure basketry qualifies as being in the “national interest”; but signing up for Gender Studies would have earned you permanent deferment AND a generous scholarship.
Clarence, did you serve? Big Larry
4F; I did not argue with the MDs.
You never know. I worked with a guy that was 4F due to a heart murmur. We all joked about it and called him a chicken. About a year later, he died from a heart attack. Big Larry
Cole Vejraska said
Hello all! Hoping for some information….I happened upon a local gentlemen that has a Model 90 in 22 LR that he is wanting to sell. It is a 1927 mfg based upon serial number and is in excellent condition. I would say around a 96-98% original?? I won’t be able to get any pictures to post on here, but I have seen the gun and agree it is NICE!! Almost too good to be true type of a deal….trouble is, he owns a Red Book and wants a lot of money for it, around $4000.00. My main question…is it worth it?? Thanks in advance for any info!!
Evidently a 96-98% model 90 .22LR is worth $4000. Any speculation as to why no flaking on this one?
It seems strange that the ‘flaking’ problem has never been explained. Some flake and some don’t. RDB
rogertherelic said
It seems strange that the ‘flaking’ problem has never been explained. Some flake and some don’t. RDB
VERY strange! And no other maker, so far as I know, experienced this problem.
rustyjack said
Evidently a 96-98% model 90 .22LR is worth $4000. Any speculation as to why no flaking on this one?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1044394429
I am suspect this rifle has been refinished, certainly the wood is shy. Possibly not a wholesale re blue, the butt plate seems to show scuffs and the barrel stamps don’t appear smeared but the receiver….meh. I would not be a buyer at half that.
Darrin
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