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Winchester 1873 Deluxe 38-40
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March 16, 2023 - 11:40 pm
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I bought this some time ago and left it unattended in the safe for years. I dug it out today and took it shooting gophers. It is capable of fine accuracy alt least “Minute Of Gopher”…

 

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Now that is too fine a rifle to leave unattended!

That is like leaving your prized Mastiff locked barking in the kennel. 

Question is, Did the Gophers bark back?

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That is some nice wood on that 38

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1873man said
That is some nice wood on that 38

Bob

  

It certainly is, those gophers should feel honored to fall to such a handsome specimen.

 

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