Embracing my Fudd Heritage

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Dad is 84 now, so figured he wouldn't need his guns anymore and gave them to me. He hasn't hunted in a long time, but when he gave them to me out of nowhere I got really emotional. I guess it's recognizing that part of what your father was, is now gone.

Anyway, Dad is a lefty and back then there weren't any left handed bolt actions circa 1964, so when he won a sales competition at his company and they offered him a hunting rifle he choose a Remington 740 Woodsman in 30-06. They really knew how to treat top performing employees back then!

Here she is, in all her Fudd glory. Topped with a Weaver K2 scope with one of those T shaped reticles I can't even remember the name of. :)

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I don't think the rifle has been fired in 20 years. I know I have never shot it. Even though I mostly use Barnes bullets these days, I won't sully it's Fuddness with an all copper bullet, I think I have some 180gr Partitions on the shelf, so I'll try them out. After all, Partitiond were pretty cutting edge back then!

If I can find a magazine, he has misplaced his for now. Actually, is there a source for these magazines? Hard to find Or are they pretty common? I'd like to hunt with it this fall, but in nice weather only. ;)
 
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But you wouldn't be entirely wrong to sell the scope. Especially to me. Sounds like the reticle commonly called post-and-crosshair.
 
Nice Remington. The model 740A, I think. I would advise you to use nothing but Remington factory loads in it from my experience with Remington autos. It must have sat on the shelf at the hardware store for a few years as the 742 came out in 1960. Not a real handloaders rifle anyway as you should stay away from max loads in it. I would hunt with it the way it is personally, a classic 1950's woods rifle if there ever was one.
 
A WTB in the EE would be a good place to start.......but you knew that............right?
Del Selin has a cabinet full of detachable magazines and could very well
have one in there.
Ron Tyson is another chap not to far away south of you that may well be a source
or know of where to locate one.

Can you read this Clarkie?

Just all neat and proper just for you.
 
I keep preciously the Savage 99 308 with is 4X Weaver scope, my father rifle with 21 notchs on the stock for mooses and whitetails taken with is rifle ... Priceless. JP.:)
 
kamlooky said:
The real Fuddliness is the hinges on the scope bases...............:cool:
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I agree, but to go "Full Fudd", you really need see-through bases so that you can still use the iron sights and get a good chin-weld when using the scope. Those bases are almost "Fudd-Tacticool" by comparison.
 
That rifle case assists with the Fuddly look... you should find a period deer tag to affix, perhaps your dad saved one... the old deer camp tradition was to tape a bloodied tag to the outside of the case. Brings back memeories, although Rem pumps were all the rage when I started deer hunting... I went straight from an M94 .32 Spl to bows, which used to piss off the old guys in rifle camp... until I kept coming out of the swamp with arrowed bucks.
 
Check the glove box or sox drawer for the mag.
Maybe the tackle box.
Does he have a back pack he used?
Pull the sofa cushions and check the side slots.
I find pop corn in there too.
His hunting jacket pockets?
 
Yep, if this hadn't been such an emotional post, I was going to get picky and say that Weaver didn't make a K2. The very, very common one was the K2.5.
I didn't think they made the K3 until about the late 1960s, or 1970, so your Dad likely had it mounted on the rifle later. And, typical of the times, a hunter used to using iron sights could easily be talked into putting a scope on with a swing out mount, "for instant use of the iron sights."
 
My families Fudd, moose slayer, was a Savage 99 308 (internal mag w counter) with flip down mounts and a old fixed 4x Bushnell. I ate a lot of moose meat taken with that. Lots of good stories, associated misadventures, and family characters.

My brother has it, never to be sold.

Not nearly as pretty as that one. Yours needs some scratches.
 
Also missing -the deer hunting scene "skillfully" carved into the buttstock and your SIN number etched into the receiver.
 
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