An old love came home tonight.

[palmettosunshine]

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2003 CZ75B

Found her abused and alone in a pawn shop in 2004. Rescued her and gave her a good home. She repaid me by being incredibly accurate, very smooth, and ate anything I fed her without complaint.

Then, like in so many relationships, my eye began to wander. I found a younger model that was more svelte. The old battleax had to go! So without a second thought I traded her away for this one.

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2012 CZ75D PCR

She was younger, had better proportions and was much more popular. i would be the envy of all my friends!

After the initial lust wore off I found myself missing my earlier love. Sure the younger one was smaller and easier to carry but was more temperamental as well. She fussed about her diet and was harder to handle easily. How I longed for my older, heavier yet more comfortable love.

After much searching I found her. I begged for forgiveness and she's home again. As long as I don't screw it up this time she's home to stay.

Ain't love wonderful?

[Olevern]

Ain't love grand?

[Reg]

Know how you feel. Back in "62" in my youth, I picked up a 91 Mauser in Winslow Arizona. Hauled it everywhere and shot everything with it. Learned how to reload with it, made mistakes and survived and took all kinds of game. Later in 67 while attending a gunsmithing school, I foolishly listened to a couple of instructors and a few others and since it wasn't a Model 70 Winchester, it surely was junk. Sold it to a old friend for the princely sum of 35.00. He hauled it all over the world while in the Air Force and it even spent 5 years in Alaska doing what good rifles do.
Time went by and I owned Sako's, Model 70's and many fine custom rifles but somehow that old 91 would seem to call and remind me of times gone by.
Many years later with the friend retired and living in Rapid City, he spent a weekend down here and we got to talking about the old 91. Told him if I had it to do all over again I never would have sold that rifle. I wish I had never listened to the "experts".
Several months later he again dropped by and this time he walked into the shop and set a battered gun case on the counter, in it was that old 91. I got this five minute lecture about taking better care of old friends and with that, he gave me back that old 91.
To this day there isn't anything that my old friend wants that isn't done and I mean done now and the 91 ? Locked up tight in the gun safe and this time I listen to no one.

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[Matthew 25]

I like it. Kind of a redemption story.

[Finster101]

" I picked up a 91 Mauser in Winslow Arizona"


Was it standin' on the corner? Such a sight to see?

[slim1836]

I know the feeling. I got my dad's Colt 45 ACP (made in 1917) upon his death in 2006 and will have it till I pass. It shoots very well with tumbled lubed (ALOX and 45/45/10) LEE 230 grain boolits at 50 yards (2"-3' groups). I think about him every time I shoot it.

Slim

[Reg]

" I picked up a 91 Mauser in Winslow Arizona"


Was it standin' on the corner? Such a sight to see?

Nope, but it was at Ol Man Brocks Gun Shop !!!!

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[EMC45]

Fine friend you got there Reg.

[Hardcast416taylor]

A friend (YES, I have a friend) once saved my life. To try to repay him I made him a .338/06 on an `17 Enfield action. I stocked it in AA walnut and put a 2 - 7X Leupold glass on it. All these years later my friend no longer hunts and has shed himself of all but 3 of his guns. The .338/06 is still with him and will never be shed of while he is alive he has told me. Heck, he won`t even give it back to me!Robert

[wv109323]

I could tell that same story 5-6 times of the ones I've let slip through my hands.
-High Standard 102 with 6 3/4" tapered barrel
- S&W Model 19 6" blue
- Remington 48 20 gauge.

[Reg]

A friend (YES, I have a friend) once saved my life. To try to repay him I made him a .338/06 on an `17 Enfield action. I stocked it in AA walnut and put a 2 - 7X Leupold glass on it. All these years later my friend no longer hunts and has shed himself of all but 3 of his guns. The .338/06 is still with him and will never be shed of while he is alive he has told me. Heck, he won`t even give it back to me!Robert


I have done a couple like that. Good feeling. Lets you know your life's work has not been in vain.

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