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tc399
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Aloha ladies and gents.
I have an old (1901) Winchester saddle ring carbine in 32WS that I've had for about 60 years. I used to carry it brush-popping cattle in Texas 50 years ago and it shoots straight but it's down to pretty much no finish and there are some replacement parts in it...the ejector and loading gate and some springs.
I didn't even remember I had it and happened to find it with an old (1939) Remington Mod 11B.
Here's the problem. I look at this old Winchester and the idea keeps popping into my mind to send it to someone and have it refinished.
Now boys, usually I'm not dumb about guns I have a lot of them. But the old dog isn't worth anything anyway and I keep thinking how pretty it would be all fixed up.
What I'l like for someone to do is tell me something I already know: Why that's such a stupid idea. :-)
I have an old (1901) Winchester saddle ring carbine in 32WS that I've had for about 60 years. I used to carry it brush-popping cattle in Texas 50 years ago and it shoots straight but it's down to pretty much no finish and there are some replacement parts in it...the ejector and loading gate and some springs.
I didn't even remember I had it and happened to find it with an old (1939) Remington Mod 11B.
Here's the problem. I look at this old Winchester and the idea keeps popping into my mind to send it to someone and have it refinished.
Now boys, usually I'm not dumb about guns I have a lot of them. But the old dog isn't worth anything anyway and I keep thinking how pretty it would be all fixed up.
What I'l like for someone to do is tell me something I already know: Why that's such a stupid idea. :-)
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It's actually a nice clean old gun. I carried it in a saddle holster and my old .357 Blackhawk (1958) in a holster. The Blackhawk is still about 80%.
It sort of amazes me that we were 12 and 13 and a couple of us would drive an old truck to a ranch, saddle a couple of horses and ride fence all week. No phones for miles and no one came looking for us unless we were more than a day or two late. Times have changed. Not for the better.
Thanks again. I knew the answer because I've kissed a lot of pigs. I was just looking for a little nostalgia, I guess.
T
I'm gonna do it the old fashioned way. Soak it in oil, take it apart, replace the bad screws and springs, run a little very fine steel wool over it to get any rust off - and then see what's left.
There ya go - the best way!
No you don't. We were dumb kids and we thought nothing about taking a quarter-horse into an arroyo full of mesquite and cholla and creosote plants and rattlesnakes and popping out an old longhorn. It was the dumbest thing anyone could do and I am amazed that none of us ever got hurt, much less killed.
The worst thing that ever happened was my friend Jim and I were riding fence and putting out salt licks and we came across some rustlers butchering a beef. So they took a couple shots at us and we took a couple shots back and decided we'd * up on 'em. So off we go and by the time we got to the place, they had jumped in their truck and were gone. So Jim and I had to finish butchering the damn steer and pack it out to the truck and take it back to San Antonio. And THEN we had to go back and finish riding the fence.
All that John Wayne poop ain't what it's cracked up to be and thank goodness I joined the Marines and became a doctor.
That Winchester is sitting here on the floor. I shoot either my M1 or an SKS if I'm hunting pigs. I have no use for it. What do you wanna do?
yooper
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But I find that most people are honest and disabled combat vets get trusted just by proving they are. I have never been ripped off. Someday I may be. My bad.