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Brooksy said
Chris Sterling said
clarence said
mrcvs said It would be a much greater loss in value if the rest of the gun was high condition and had a refinished wood, vs yours, much lesser condition and refinished wood.
I LIKE overall metal on this gun, wouldn’t want it better if I was serious about shooting it. I’d have to do something about the “shine” on the stock, though, rubbing it down with steel wool, pumice, etc. The chambering isn’t exactly an asset, however.
No that’s for sure , ammo is hard to come by but I have some brass and bullets and the gun is shoots nice tight groups and yes the condition is perfect for using it to hunt with . From everything I’ve seen the 35 WCF seems to be more scarce and desirable , is that not the case ?
I haven’t found 95s in 35wcf to be hard to find. The only tough ones to find are the 38 72 and the 40 72. The rest are pretty common.
I have seen some but people were asking $100.00 -$200.00 for a box of twenty .
Chris Sterling said
Brooksy said
Chris Sterling said
clarence said
mrcvs said It would be a much greater loss in value if the rest of the gun was high condition and had a refinished wood, vs yours, much lesser condition and refinished wood.
I LIKE overall metal on this gun, wouldn’t want it better if I was serious about shooting it. I’d have to do something about the “shine” on the stock, though, rubbing it down with steel wool, pumice, etc. The chambering isn’t exactly an asset, however.
No that’s for sure , ammo is hard to come by but I have some brass and bullets and the gun is shoots nice tight groups and yes the condition is perfect for using it to hunt with . From everything I’ve seen the 35 WCF seems to be more scarce and desirable , is that not the case ?
I haven’t found 95s in 35wcf to be hard to find. The only tough ones to find are the 38 72 and the 40 72. The rest are pretty common.
I have seen some but people were asking $100.00 -$200.00 for a box of twenty .
Oh I misread your comment , you said the rifles not the ammo , yes I have seen some also but the seller usually states ” in the hard to find or desirable caliber ” ?
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“Hard to find or desirable” could be used to describe every centerfire cartridge I shoot in my old Winchesters.
Mike
I couldn’t tell you the last time I have bought factory made ammo, unless it was .22lr. That’s what reloading components are for, putting old guns back to work.
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Brooksy said
I couldn’t tell you the last time I have bought factory made ammo, unless it was .22lr. That’s what reloading components are for, putting old guns back to work.
I buy a lot of shotgun and rimfire ammo and occasionally carry fodder for my social equipment. Loading shotgun ammo is mind-numbing and saves little or no money. Loading “obsolete” cartridges is fun and relaxing and quite honestly the only way I can shoot most of my Winchesters. When 30WCF was $7.95 a box I didn’t bother to load it but one day a custom 30 caliber mould showed up and a set of RCBS Cowboy dies was close behind.
Mike
TXGunNut said
Brooksy said
I couldn’t tell you the last time I have bought factory made ammo, unless it was .22lr. That’s what reloading components are for, putting old guns back to work.
I buy a lot of shotgun and rimfire ammo and occasionally carry fodder for my social equipment. Loading shotgun ammo is mind-numbing and saves little or no money. Loading “obsolete” cartridges is fun and relaxing and quite honestly the only way I can shoot most of my Winchesters. When 30WCF was $7.95 a box I didn’t bother to load it but one day a custom 30 caliber mould showed up and a set of RCBS Cowboy dies was close behind.
Mike
Wow , $7.95 a box ……those days are long gone! Years ago I would always pick up a box of 30-40 krag for around twenty dollars a box every hunting season when it would be on the shelves , now they are double that and then some , now I have plenty of brass and I picked up some dies so I’ll never have to buy ammo again for my grandfathers old gun .
Like some of you, the only ammo my family bought when I was growing up was 22 LR. If it was a center fire, we reloaded for it. In the 1960s, my dad would give me a $5 bill, and I would hop on my bicycle and ride the 9-miles into town, by a brick of 22 LR for $3.50 at the local “Coast-to-Coast hardware store, and then stop at the A&W drive-up on the way home and buy myself (2) hotdogs with the works and a Root beer float with the change. On many of those trips I had my Ithaca Model 49 strapped on the bike with me on the ride to and from town (just in case I saw something worth shooting along the way).
Bert
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Bert H. said
Like some of you, the only ammo my family bought when I was growing up was 22 LR. If it was a center fire, we reloaded for it. In the 1960s, my dad would give me a $5 bill, and I would hop on my bicycle and ride the 9-miles into town, by a brick of 22 LR for $3.50 at the local “Coast-to-Coast hardware store, and then stop at the A&W drive-up on the way home and buy myself (2) hotdogs with the works and a Root beer float with the change. On many of those trips I had my Ithaca Model 49 strapped on the bike with me on the ride to and from town (just in case I saw something worth shooting along the way).Bert
Better days back then for sure . My father told me when he was a kid back in the late fortys , early fifty’s he could go to the movies with 25 cents , buy a ticket , some popcorn and a soda and still have enough to stop and buy some penny candy on his way home .
We used to have a small hardware store , Sportsman’s True Value, right in town that sold guns and ammo but they stopped that probably 25 years ago .
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