After all these years!

H4831 said:
Thanks for your contribution here Johnn. And yes, I have to admit I did get peed off and took a holiday for a while, but there are so many great people on here that I couldn't let anyone else keep me off of here for very long.
Yes, I still have my aviation map with the dot I put on with my pen to mark the spot where Al Patchet ended his career.
A happier memory is of my brother and I, along with Al Patchet and another fellow spending a glorious afternoon fishing a remote spot on the Blackwater River, now a designated special trout river.
Some time when you are coming this way I wish you could bring that nice old 44-40 along. I think I have a bit of ammo for it and I would sure like to shoot it.
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Will do. Remind me, when is the next show at Salmon Arm? That may be the next trip to that area for me.
 

I took this buck in the fall of 2005 with my father's rifle that was passed onto me.
He purchased it in 1966 at the CFB Shearwater CANEX store, when it went on sale.
Previous to buying it he often accompanied a group of friendly RCN veterans, that seen to it that he loaned a deer rifle for thier hunts. Most often it was a .303 LE.
It's got William's peep sights and a Fire-Site up front that I added.
The largest WT deer I personally taken.
And yes, it's a 30-30.

PS: My father was a teenager at the end of WWII in occupied Belgium. To his eyes owning a real rifle was a true symbol of freedom.
 
kamlooky said:
Me Lawrd..........yer spell'un izz nuttroeshuszs...........

Ewwweegee, need summawr kluews.......................:wave:
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Found a pic of a guy shooting a shark Circa 1924 from aboard a yacht with a Marlin 1893 - as it wasn't my rifle I put it in the random pic thread instead.

The only lever I currently have in my dirty mitts is a Marlin 336 with a barrel that is out of timing. Still a kick - ass rifle though. I am going to have to get a smith to correct that. It currently has an XS 'ghost ring' sight on it, but it needs a bushing to be useable for other than jungle hunting in Sumatry out to max of 20 yards. Serial range dates back to the 1960s, so she already has some family heritage somewhere along the line. When I discussed 30/30's with dad, he said more often than not when discussing the subject of deer hunting with NS residents, the Marlin 336 or 1893(?) was the preferred lever back in the 1970s era and perhaps earlier. :)

Love the 1886! so classic and rugged looking.
 
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