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Buying a Rifle Part 3

Now moving right along, Sorry that this is a very long diatribe!

Let us move along to the action of the rifle.
Does it operate smoothly?
This video will give an idea as to how it should go as concerning smoothness. The first 30 seconds is all you need to see.
If yes then you are good to go!
How does the metal of the gun look like?
Does it look uniformly clean w/o any rust, pits, stains, scars, bulges, cracks or stuff like that?
How does the inside of the barrel look like?
It should look like this
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How does the trigger feel?
Ask if you can dry fire it.
If the trigger have a reasonable resistance to pressure and then breaks clean. (You will feel it when you do it.)
If not – You can still think about getting it. Since you can usually replace the trigger with an aftermarket one. Which will cost around another $100.
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Preview YouTube video Operating a bolt action rifle: working the bolt for speed and consistency

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Buying a Rifle Part 2

********Trigger Warning – Adult Profanity coming up!**********

Yeah I am a real windy Bastard at times. So thank you for bearing with me so far!
  Now where was I? Oh yeah buying a Rifle! As you can see my my C.R.S.* is acting up!
 Let us say that you have found a worthy candidate of a Rifle to add to you group of foster guns. As President Teddy Roosevelt (The Good Roosevelt*) would say “Bully!”.
  Right! Now is the time to turn on your cold hard eyes and do a serious inventory on the condition of this Long Arm.
Now I generally start from the Butt or bottom of a rifle and move my way up.
Does this rifle have a but plate or a recoil pad on it. If so what shape is it in?
If it has a recoil pad. How hard is it. I have bought some rifles that the pad could break concrete.
If you have to replace the pad. Then it will probably cost you a C Note or $100 dollars to those Yankees out there.
Are there any cracks, scars, scratches,blemishes on or near the toe & heel of the butt? If yes then pass on it. Unless you get a big discount.
Yes! You can replace a stock. But that is very expensive. With either your choice of wood or a good plastic one.   (I hate most plastic gun parts by the way)
So when I say expensive think at least $200 and up. IF you can find a good Gun Smith & if he has time for it. So add another couple of hundred to the tally.
NO I AM NOT TRY TO SCARE YOU! But I do want you to go in with your eyes open Okay?
Unless you can get a good deal on E bay. But that can be a gamble at times with E bay.
More later
* Theodore was a great sportsman and had a great collection of guns. Hopefully one day. I can go to Oyster Bay, NY and see his home. Which has been turned into a Museum. Serious Hint – By the by. Did I mention that I take gifts on Paypal by the way?
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Buying a Rifle- Part 1

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Now I have written before about buying a pistol and later on I will post something about Shot guns.

If you have the burden of living in the Peoples Republic of California and some other states*. You are going to have to buy a gun safe. But I will write about these at a later date. But it is a good idea anyways.
  Now again Rifles come in these basic formats
Gun Infographic (see link for more) - visit us at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex, Sparta, ILor the Fully automatic mode like the AK-47**
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Assault Rifles like the AK-47** – Which contrary to Media BS is basically illegal to have in Most Places in the USA.
 

** There are versions of the AK-47 out there. But they are only Semi Automatic. They can be converted to full Auto. But if you do & when you get caught. Your new Room mate is called Bubba and he thinks that you have a pretty face.
So unless you do not want to get in touch with your other sexual self. I highly recommend not doing this foolish thing!
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Remington Model 600-Stock Refinished .308 Win.

All I know is that when I shot one like this . It had a a great report and a solid recoil that you did not forget real soon! As you can guess by now. I am not a real fan but God Bless those who do like them!

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NEW Upgrade to the M2 50 caliber Machine Gun

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Savage Model 1899a, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1a Rear Sights, Blue 20” Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R .303 Savage

Savage Model 1899A, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1A Rear Sights, Blue 20” - Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R - Picture 4
Savage Model 1899A, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1A Rear Sights, Blue 20” - Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R - Picture 5
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Savage Model 1899A, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1A Rear Sights, Blue 20” - Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R - Picture 8
Savage Model 1899A, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1A Rear Sights, Blue 20” - Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R - Picture 9
Savage Model 1899A, No. 21 & Lyman No. 1A Rear Sights, Blue 20” - Lever Action Short Rifle, MFD 1909 C&R - Picture 10

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The Pre-64 Winchester Model 70 vs Current Model 70

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Blasts from the Past: Holland & Holland Royal .410 BY PHIL BOURJAILY

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Holland & Holland Royal .410.
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Today’s gun is a Holland and Holland Royal Deluxe, an O/U from a firm that made its reputation building best grade doubles.
They made O/U’s, too, and, in fact, the O/U has become much more popular in recent years among the sort of people who can afford H&Hs and driven bird shooting.
While Hollands and driven birds may be out of your price range and mine, publishing magnate* Robert Petersen, founder of “Guns &Ammo,” “Hunting” and “Hot Rod” magazines certainly could afford them. When Petersen died in 2007, the majority of his outstanding firearms collection went to the National Firearms Museum, which opened a Petersen Gallery in 2010.
Very few of his guns wound up in private hands. This .410 is one of those few and it will be up for sale at the Rock Island Auction’s Premiere Auction December 1–3, 2017.

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Two German shorthairs engraved on the receiver.
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The engraving makes this gun. The late Master Engraver Philippe Grifnee decorated the frame parts, trigger guard, lever and forend hardware in beautiful deep relief scroll, which includes a perfectly rendered Gambel’s quail. The sideplates were done in banknote (or “bulino”) style engraving.
Banknote engraving uses a burin or graver, to scribe very fine, very detailed images, in this case, I am pleased to mention, a pair of German shorthaired pointers. Bulino amazes me.
Experts can draw with a burin on steel as easily as we draw on paper with a pencil, except they’re a lot better at it than most of us are with a pencil and paper.

The stock has a Prince of Wales grip, or what used to be called a half-pistol grip, which has more to do with the angle of the grip than whether the grip is rounded or not.
Just in case you wanted to buy this as your dove gun (we can dream, can’t we?) it has three-inch chambers, Modified chokes in both of its 28-inch barrels, and it weighs 5 pounds, 5 ounces. Otherwise, I am guessing it’s never been fired and will probably stay that way. The gun also comes with a factory letter and ledger sheet.
*I don’t think that’s a job any more, such is the state of publishing. It’s like being a “whale oil magnate.”
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The deep relief scroll with Gambel’s quail.
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