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If you could have just one rifle back ?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1413939" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>My first high power rifle. My dad only small game hunted but my Sunday school teacher told me at the age of 12 if I would get me a high power rifle he would take me deer hunting. I worked hard that year working in the hay fields and tobacco fields, mowing yards and anything else I could do to make a dime and raised $45.00. At one of the stores they had a shopping cart full of boxed "Army rifles". That was all I knew at the time was they were "Army rifles." For my $45.00 Dad got me the rifle and two boxes of 30-06 150 gr SP ammo. Rifle cost $40.00. Rifle turned out to be a new UNISSUED 1903A3 Springfield made by Remington. I did not weigh 100 lbs soaking wet and that thing beat the snot out of me but I learned how to shoot long range with that rifle. It had the open pep sights and I learned how to estimate yardage and set the sight and could nail groundhogs at a good distance. I had a cousin that was in the national guard and he would bring me a 250 round can of ammo every month when he went to guard. I never did get to kill a deer with that rifle because deer were few and far between back then in my area. After a few years I got the hankering for something lighter and easier to handle in the woods and sold the Springfield for $45.00 and bought a Marlin 336 in 30-30 Win and killed my first deer with it that next season. Wish I had that Springfield back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1413939, member: 10178"] My first high power rifle. My dad only small game hunted but my Sunday school teacher told me at the age of 12 if I would get me a high power rifle he would take me deer hunting. I worked hard that year working in the hay fields and tobacco fields, mowing yards and anything else I could do to make a dime and raised $45.00. At one of the stores they had a shopping cart full of boxed "Army rifles". That was all I knew at the time was they were "Army rifles." For my $45.00 Dad got me the rifle and two boxes of 30-06 150 gr SP ammo. Rifle cost $40.00. Rifle turned out to be a new UNISSUED 1903A3 Springfield made by Remington. I did not weigh 100 lbs soaking wet and that thing beat the snot out of me but I learned how to shoot long range with that rifle. It had the open pep sights and I learned how to estimate yardage and set the sight and could nail groundhogs at a good distance. I had a cousin that was in the national guard and he would bring me a 250 round can of ammo every month when he went to guard. I never did get to kill a deer with that rifle because deer were few and far between back then in my area. After a few years I got the hankering for something lighter and easier to handle in the woods and sold the Springfield for $45.00 and bought a Marlin 336 in 30-30 Win and killed my first deer with it that next season. Wish I had that Springfield back. [/QUOTE]
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