Bought Shotgun to Get the Box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4205raymond
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See GB Auction # 913027744. Did you ever buy the gun to get the box? Yep, some of us Gun Nuts do crazy things.
Similar action a year before dad who was a Medic in WW2 passed away in 2011. On my next to last trip to see Dad in Virginia he said, "Son you might as well take that 94 Winchester home with you. I think my hunting/fishing days are over." He bought the Texas Commemorative 30-30 on a trip to Texas. Came home and burned up the box and paper work in the garden. Gun is unfired and flawless.Took me five years but I finally located the original sleeve, tags and paper work. Yep, I paid more for all that paper than Dad paid for the gun. i think the Commemoratives are a little gaudy but no amount of money could purchase this 94 Winchester.--------------------------Ray
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So, you bought a shotgun just so you could have a box for a commemorative model 94?? Or, was that just a metaphor, or something like that. I might know what you mean though. I spent lots of time trying to find an original owner's pamphlet for Dad's Remington 511. Don't even know why.
I should have made that more clear. The 37 Winchester and box I purchased tonight had nothing to do with Dad's 94 Winchester. If I told you how many 37 Winchesters I have, you would not believe it. The old 37 Winchester picture box in that condition is becoming extremely hard to come by. Believe it or not, i was more interested in the box than the 37 Winchester. Actually the box pre-dates the shot gun.-------------------------------Ray
The less obtuse members of the forum probably weren't confused at all.
Beautiful picture box. Nice 16 gauge also.😊
Yup, both of 'em...
Link to auction.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/913027744
Make a good squirrel gun. Interesting the box has Spanish writing included. Makes sense as I'm sure Mexico was a large market for Winchester then.
I thought I understood it, and then you clarified. And now I'm confused. Fortunately, that doesn't affect anything you're doing. Carry on. Enjoy your gun, boxes, and Gunbrokering.
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Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Nice buy.....I am putting the Smith 340 the seller has on my watch list.
Good thing the end of the box says made in USA. Otherwise Jim D would have translated the Spanish to made in China.
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That is a nice find. Notice the doodle bug hammer, second version I think.
I try to be obcute.😊
Second version is correct. i call it a bumble bee hammer. Actually we are both wrong. Correct name is cocking lever. I think we both gave it a great name.
Doodle bug, Doodle bug, Doodle bug, come out of your hole. Is that the same one we use to talk to as little tykes and he lived in a little crater in the ground, mostly sandy type soil?---------------Ray
First hammer was a small spur and I call the third hammer the high spur. Little tykes like me hunting cotton tails with Dad would gut the bunnies out and run our belts between tendon and bone on hind leg. Many days it was a long tiring walk home with all those bunnies hanging from my waist.
Story was the good old boys in New Haven took it upon themselves to redesign that hammer so little tykes like me with blood all over my hands would not let my thumb slip off it Imagine that, no Mass Media or Anti-gun politicians to beat up on Winchester then. Besides that little spur hammer is hell to pull back with that strong firing pin spring when you are ten years old.------------------------------------------Ray
just cool,,all around