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Texas by God
11-06-2017, 12:17 PM
My cousin's son inherited this Winchester model 75 Sporter with period Weaver scope. And he let me shoot it yesterday. The scope is crystal clear and dead on. Clipping floating 1/4" twigs in two in the creek was easy. I'm sorry I didn't get better pics.
Best, Thomas.

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Texas by God
11-06-2017, 12:18 PM
The forgotten pic.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171106/d570d8714efb2a5549943b1f54c39f1d.jpg

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shredder
11-07-2017, 11:38 AM
Well that is retro and certainly looks fun! Sounds like clipping those twigs was very satisfying, I love plinking like that too.

David LaPell
11-08-2017, 06:02 AM
To me there is something about those older .22 rifles than the news versions just can't seem to get.

kmw1954
11-08-2017, 09:42 AM
Sweet!

Texas by God
11-14-2017, 12:42 PM
When he first got it he asked me to mount a modern scope on it. I offered to beat him up on the spot. He's 28, 6'/300#. He laughed. After hitting soda cans @ 100 yds he saw the light!

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Jack Stanley
11-14-2017, 08:03 PM
Threatening a youth with grave bodily harm does work to smarten them up sometimes ;-)

Jack

aspangler
11-15-2017, 12:56 PM
The rifle is neat especially with the old scope. I like them a lot.
However, shooting at ANYTHING is water is a VERY risky thing to do. .22 rimfires will bounce off water like water runs off a ducks back.
Be safe. Know your backstop.

TCLouis
11-16-2017, 12:55 AM
Nice . . .

Even NICER with the period scope!!!

skeettx
11-16-2017, 10:49 AM
Great combination and really close to the bore line
Well done
Mike

roysha
11-16-2017, 12:24 PM
to me there is something about those older .22 rifles than the news versions just can't seem to get.

absolutely!!!!!!

Texas by God
11-21-2017, 05:56 PM
The rifle is neat especially with the old scope. I like them a lot.
However, shooting at ANYTHING is water is a VERY risky thing to do. .22 rimfires will bounce off water like water runs off a ducks back.
Be safe. Know your backstop.Thanks for the reminder about ricochets.
We were shooting straight down from a rock bluff so no danger there.
But turtle shooting is popular here and kids learn early to shoot facing the dam always.
I have seen a boy and a cow both hit by ricochets. Both survived but 30 odd years later the man still carries the bullet in his back. The cow died of old age years later.
Be safe!

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mac1911
11-28-2017, 02:37 AM
Nice I prefer the older guns myself. my favorite is my 1942 513t and a mid 50s rem 552
But I tossed this more "retro" to my age group piece to gether all from the mid 80s
iverjohnson erma were em1 22lr carbine Millet steel rings made in the use and a Korea era Bushnell
https://i.imgur.com/gRHaRWH.jpg?1

Herb in Pa
11-28-2017, 09:18 AM
H&R M12 with Weaver T25
BSA Martini with Unertl
Stevens Model 53B (my first rifle)

D Crockett
11-28-2017, 10:21 AM
Texas by God I try every morning to start the day with a laugh well in your post # 6 I got a good day starter thank you D Crockett

rfd
11-28-2017, 06:05 PM
love the old .22's, nothing like 'em to us ol' fogies.

208640

Texas by God
11-29-2017, 04:00 PM
I cut my teeth on Dad's 511 Remington. My uncle had the 512. My oldest brother et me shoot his Marlin 60 sometimes.
When my turn came, I went space age and bought a Remington Nylon 66.

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