Old classic hunting rifles.

[hillman]

Old model 64

Lots of nice old rifles. Here's my 64. It was my first deer rifle handed down from my father. It is an early 1933 vintage that I restored around 1964. I redid the stock as a teenager. I recall it cost me about $20 to reblue at the time. It is still a shooter.

 

[RRCo.]

Thanks for all the nice comments. I don't hunt anymore but do shoot most of my rifles.

Ted: Good to hear from you and hope all is well with you and yours.

I found this a very interesting thread and enjoyed reading about and seeing some nice rifles.

You're in a class by yourself, as usual!

Thanks for showing us how "the other half" shot, and shoot.

 

[Cleftwynd]

This is one of the best threads on CGN, some of you are extremely lucky to have and hold such amazing works of art.

 

[Matt74]

Some fine looking rifles there gentlemen. Not sure how I did not see this thread before?!
Matt

 

[hillman]

Remington Model 30 Express

Another 30/06

I had a nice unaltered model 30 Express that I passed onto another CGN a few years ago. It was Remington's first commercial bolt action center fire. Only about 26,000 were produced. I understand that many were altered with recoil pads and other modifications. This one was hunted with and was a good shooter.

It is basically an "enhanced P17" as they were modified to #### on opening the bolt instead of closing. These are collectable and were standard equipment on the Admiral Byrd antartic expeditions. I probably never should have sold it, but I know it went to someone who appreciated it.

 

[Noel]

Very nice Hillman. That one you had there looks pretty clean.

A friend of the family used one as you see him here to take this caribou in NW Alberta.

 

[BigUglyMan]

Very nice Hillman. That one you had there looks pretty clean.

A friend of the family used one as you see him here to take this caribou in NW Alberta.

You even have classic photos!

 

[Cleftwynd]

That is great Noel!! I am a sentimental nostalgic fool though, nothing like having photos like that of ancestors and family. To me pictures like that are priceless family heirlooms.

 

[RRCo.]

Very nice Hillman. That one you had there looks pretty clean.

A friend of the family used one as you see him here to take this caribou in NW Alberta.

With a scope too I see. I'm a fan of Model 30s, and it's funny, I looked at that photo before I saw Hillman's post above and thought I recognized the rifle.

I believe the early ones were #### on closing like the Model 1917 and the Pattern 14 it was based on.

(If anyone has a Model 30 around with a junk barrel I'm interested for a project)

 

[Johnn Peterson]

That is great Noel!! I am a sentimental nostalgic fool though, nothing like having photos like that of ancestors and family. To me pictures like that are priceless family heirlooms.

Here's another for you then and it's one I've posted in previous threads and one I've been told was taken in the 30's.

When we first moved from downtown Edmonton to downtown Barkerville in '55, one of the few other residents there was an elderly couple by name of Joe & Betty Wendle. She was a very well known hunter in the area and on visits to their home, I remember seeing about four Grizzly rugs/hides. Her 'forte' was Grizzly hunting and her firearm of choice was a 99 Savage in 22 Savage High Power.

And another of about the same era, Deer hunting in Alberta.

 

[Cleftwynd]

Those are great Johnn, I will have to scans few myself and post em up. Might start a thread for that if someone else doesn't first.

 

[Noel]

You even have classic photos!

Sorry I just couldn't resist with that Remington being such a rare bird I thought Hillman might appreciate it.
Unless you aren't being sarcastic, then that means you really haven't paid much mind to any of my posts.

 

[Noel]

Those are great Johnn, I will have to scans few myself and post em up. Might start a thread for that if someone else doesn't first.

You might look at H4831s thread in the hunting forum, vintage hunting pictures. Lots of nice shots there.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Those are great Johnn, I will have to scans few myself and post em up. Might start a thread for that if someone else doesn't first.

Here's, sort of, one more for you that I scanned from an old post card that was once available in a shop in Barkerville.

Apparently, there was an experiment using Camels as pack animals but history has it that it didn't work as well as planned. I showed the scan to my buddy and he said it looked like a 'Mid East quad' to him.

 

[hillman]

Great old photos. I owned a share in a camp (cabin) that was built in the 30s. The cabin is long gone as the area is now an elk reserve, but I was given (and still have) the camp log books that went way back. I collected many old hunting books with great old photos. I still have all of Jim Corbett's books but passed on the others.

Noel - Great photo of your old family friend. Every hunter has a story and so does he and that model 30. The one I sold was made in 1926 and in exceptional shape with an excellent bore. The fellow I sold it to phoned me several times before he took it because he was real nervous that he'd be disappointed. He phoned me the day it arrived (he had already shot it) to ask if I had priced it to low. I probably did at the time, but I told him I was happy that he was happy because it found a good home.

PS - none of my children are interested in my hobby. So it goes. I'd rather sell to some one I know when the next time to sell comes.

I'm not from Victoria, but I bet the provincial achives has some interesting hunting photos there. You can order copies if you find some you like.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Found a couple more photos of interest. I've mentioned previously living in Barkerville for a short period of time when we first moved from Edmonton. The following is the house we rented from my Aunt until we bought and moved to nearby Wells.

A short distance away was what turned out to be a 'Sporting House' or cat house in days past. Years later on a trip to the Bowron Lake area for a Moose hunt, as a side trip of interest, I took my buddy for a tour. When he was coming down away from that particular exhibit, I asked him to take his jacket off. As he did, I snapped a photo and told his wife it was a picture of him leaving the old cat house.

The devil made me do it.

 

[YukonWolf]

My winchester model 55 is still my favourite deer rifle. It was handed down to me by a dear old friend Herb) and deer hunter who died in his 100th year. When I was back in Ontario the whitetail would get rattled every time I raised that gun as it rarely missed. That wood stock against my cheek always reminds me of my friend Herb who gave me the rifle, an original unopened box of Dominion 30-30 shells and an old cleaning rod in the original burlap case. I haven't had a chance to take that rifle hunting since moving to the Yukon but hopefully next year it will see a deer again.

 

[GrantR]

This was my father's hunting rifle ..... a 1927-production Model 1899 Savage with fruitwood stock, chambered in .30-30.

I still have the rifle, although it is in genteel retirement .....

 

[Glenfilthie]

Oh man...this is probably the best thread on the entire forum right now.

I love that rifle Grant; when I was 13 I fully intended to buy one of those in .308. They had them at Crappy Tire and I am sure that back in the 70's you could have that for under $300.00. Unfortunately Pop found out and put the kibosh on it - and insisted I start with a .22 first. Fast forward 35 years and dozens of rifles later...and I never did get that old Savage.

I hope that rifle has taken lots of game and that you have a worthy young hunter to pass it on to when the time comes. Funny how guns can become 'touch stones' for departed friends and good times past...

 

[H4831]

It's time we had a real oldie on here!
1884 Springfield Trapdoor, 45-70. I think we can call it classic, because I hunted with it when I was a teenager. My best hunting story with it was I trailed a couple elk all day in half a foot of snow, caught up to them just before dark in the afternoon. I was so tired I could barely hold the rifle up, the elk was moving and I missed her.
My brother, however, shot an elk with it, a near 45 degree angling shot and it went clear through.
This rifle has been in the family since the mid 1930s and is in pristine condition, with a shiny bore and sharp rifling. Two older brothers were having a mid day lunch in a bachelors cabin, a man they had never seen before. One brother admired this rifle, which was hanging on a wall. The fellow told my brother that he could have the rifle, if he wanted it.
When I was hunting with it, in late war time, there was was no ammuition available, as 45-70 ammo hadn't been made for several years. Another bachelor friend said he had some shells for it and if I walked to his cabin, I could have them. I lost no time in getting there and he gave me most of two boxes full of Winchester, 405 grain jacketed bullets. One of the boxes he gave me is in this picture!
I now have access to a chronograph and I intend to chrono ONE cartridge, to see what they were loaded at. Don't worry, the old rifle has already shot some from the box.