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December 27, 2024
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Boy has it been a busy last couple of months, between Fly-Fishing, Shooting, Hunting, oh ya, and then there’s that dreaded work thing that gets in the way. Anyway, as nervous as I was to take my 1956 M70 in .243 out, I did, and with no damage, to the gun 
. However, I did end up with another small Buck. One Shot and down, just the way I like it. Now, I just have to decide if I want to hang it or not.
Dan #67288
April 15, 2005
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It was made to hunt with… I see No reason not to keep that rifle gainfully employed!
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
April 2, 2024
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Congratulations on your hunt. Nice buck and rifle!
August 27, 2014
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Congrats nice buck
Nervous?
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them”
President Harry S. Truman
December 27, 2024
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Tedk said
Congrats nice buck
Nervous?
Nervous to scratch it 
– but thanks group, I enjoyed the hunt.
Dan #67288
July 8, 2012
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Nice Buck, congratulations.
January 20, 2023
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Dan, nice buck. If you are concerned about finish wear, there are — or used to be, cloth covers or wrappings, usually in camouflage colors and patterns, to conceal and protect the firearm. I’ve seen them particularly during turkey season.
What i have used on turkey hunts with my (former, now son’s) Model 59 is camo tape. Bass Pro used to carry it. It will not damage gun finish.
For the best protection, you can buy and use temporarily a drop-in glass stock for your barreled action and either tape the barrel, bolt handle and floorplate or apply a heavy coat of clear, non-abrasive paste wax like Johnson’s or Butcher’s and lei it dry thoroughly. Don’t polish it off. Don’t worry about removing it. Wax evaporates over time. If you are impatient, wipe it off with Ballistol or Breakfree CLP. If you are going to use wax or tape, apply it before installing the barreled action in the glass stock.
In the alternative to all the foregoing if you are stand hunting, just carry the gun to and from the stand in an unpadded rainproof case that you can roll up and stick in your pocket. If you do this, DO NOT BRING THE CASED RIFLE INTO A WARM TRUCK OR CABIN. Uncase it and open the breech to avoid atmospheric water from condensing on the cold gun steel. Any case is a rust cabinet but the cheap, handy rainproof ones are for short-term carry in the field only.
You may well already know these things but, if not, I wanted to pass them on.
Bill
- 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.
