Jack Stanley
12-02-2014, 08:29 PM
My pal and I went cruising around a few gun shops today . Before I had even got to the first shop ( about an hour from home ) I got a call from my beloved giving me specific orders to "Buy a gun for your Christmas present" :shock: Well ummm.... OK honey if you say so .
So when I got to the first shop I started looking at everything just like normal and working my way over to the gun racks in "Grogans surplus shop" ( not the real name but you guys on the west side of the state know who I'm talking about ) But the first part of my tour in that shop was through the reloading department and what to my wondering eyes did I behold ? ......... times up ! It as a three pound can of Winchester 571 , which if I remember right was the same thing as Hogdons HS-7 Well , maybe I can find a use for that .
Finally made it over to the gun piles ... What? you've never seen a store that stores their new guns and surplus guns in the same pile ? Stop at "Grogans" ( again not the real name to protect the guilty ) At one of the piles my driver is looking at some of the short action Ruger 77 type rifles . Pistol cartridge length if that clears it up any , sorry to confuse I don't follow Ruger all that much , their fault not mine and I'll get into that if you want ...... and maybe if you don't want anyway ;-)
He had found a model 77/44 , blued steel and a at least nice walnut stock . I say at least though I held it long enough admiring the wood that I think I left only one drop of drool on it . Three or five drops would have constituted a very nice stock . My driver isn't all that hard to please , he was more concerned with the wood to metal fit and did everything work right on it . Since it looked all in order and the thought of late doe season coming up it was more than he could bear and he caved in to the pressure . later I found out his wife had given him an envelope of "fun" money to use with orders similar to the ones I got . ....... I dunno maybe it was something in the water today :oops:
I've been wanting a twenty-two magnum for several years now I had bought a Savage 93GL that did not work out . They had another 93GL in the rack and I didn't want to roll the dice again so I kept on moving . A couple years ago this same shop had a laminated stock Ruger I would have bought had the bolt been made for left hand shooters . So Ruger hasn't made any progress in that field for two years now and that's sad . It would have been my first Ruger in over twenty years but they are not alone in not providing a product for lefties . CZ has been without a twenty-two magnum for way to long also . The shop had several CZ products of the rim fire lineup , even had a couple lefties .... in twenty-two LR ! But no magnums new or used .
What is a fella to do ? And who lost the sale ? Well as I was walking around the piles of guns , I came across a couple of odd looking guns with the bolt sticking straight out the side ....... the left side :shock: huh? whutzis? It's chambered for twenty-two magnum ... yeah tell me more ...... Works like a Swiss K-31 sorta ....... got a Browning sticker on the barrel . Well ain't that something! a brand new Browning T-bolt with only three or four minor nicks from the pile of guns ( you'd really think they'd treat the new guns better) .
So with a swipe of the VISA card Ruger and CZ lost the chance for a sale ...... unless of course this Browning has a rim blow out that wrecks it like the Savage I had . As long as it shoots well I think I got what I want . To bad too , I really wanted a CZ .
Jack
So when I got to the first shop I started looking at everything just like normal and working my way over to the gun racks in "Grogans surplus shop" ( not the real name but you guys on the west side of the state know who I'm talking about ) But the first part of my tour in that shop was through the reloading department and what to my wondering eyes did I behold ? ......... times up ! It as a three pound can of Winchester 571 , which if I remember right was the same thing as Hogdons HS-7 Well , maybe I can find a use for that .
Finally made it over to the gun piles ... What? you've never seen a store that stores their new guns and surplus guns in the same pile ? Stop at "Grogans" ( again not the real name to protect the guilty ) At one of the piles my driver is looking at some of the short action Ruger 77 type rifles . Pistol cartridge length if that clears it up any , sorry to confuse I don't follow Ruger all that much , their fault not mine and I'll get into that if you want ...... and maybe if you don't want anyway ;-)
He had found a model 77/44 , blued steel and a at least nice walnut stock . I say at least though I held it long enough admiring the wood that I think I left only one drop of drool on it . Three or five drops would have constituted a very nice stock . My driver isn't all that hard to please , he was more concerned with the wood to metal fit and did everything work right on it . Since it looked all in order and the thought of late doe season coming up it was more than he could bear and he caved in to the pressure . later I found out his wife had given him an envelope of "fun" money to use with orders similar to the ones I got . ....... I dunno maybe it was something in the water today :oops:
I've been wanting a twenty-two magnum for several years now I had bought a Savage 93GL that did not work out . They had another 93GL in the rack and I didn't want to roll the dice again so I kept on moving . A couple years ago this same shop had a laminated stock Ruger I would have bought had the bolt been made for left hand shooters . So Ruger hasn't made any progress in that field for two years now and that's sad . It would have been my first Ruger in over twenty years but they are not alone in not providing a product for lefties . CZ has been without a twenty-two magnum for way to long also . The shop had several CZ products of the rim fire lineup , even had a couple lefties .... in twenty-two LR ! But no magnums new or used .
What is a fella to do ? And who lost the sale ? Well as I was walking around the piles of guns , I came across a couple of odd looking guns with the bolt sticking straight out the side ....... the left side :shock: huh? whutzis? It's chambered for twenty-two magnum ... yeah tell me more ...... Works like a Swiss K-31 sorta ....... got a Browning sticker on the barrel . Well ain't that something! a brand new Browning T-bolt with only three or four minor nicks from the pile of guns ( you'd really think they'd treat the new guns better) .
So with a swipe of the VISA card Ruger and CZ lost the chance for a sale ...... unless of course this Browning has a rim blow out that wrecks it like the Savage I had . As long as it shoots well I think I got what I want . To bad too , I really wanted a CZ .
Jack