Snagged another nice old Remington
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Topic: Snagged another nice old Remington
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: Snagged another nice old Remington
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 5:36am
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In yesterday’s horse tradin episode after work I traded an SKS rifle that I had absolutely no use for ( it also came from a horse trade deal) for a. Model 721 Remington in 30-06. Pretty nice condition with a same era Bushnell fixed 4 power. I have a soft spot for old Remingtons I guess. |
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 5:48am
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You did great on that deal. I love the old Remingtons also ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 2:14pm
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I somehow acquired for my 14th birthday a Remington Pump Model 29 - 12ga shotgun my dad had traded to my uncle some years before . So proud owner of old shotgun but had crack in magazine tube . repaired it in shop class by brazing the so it worked . Later I found one a friend had bought at garage sale , receiver and the tube and gave him the $1 he paid for it . FIT PERFECT So have good working Model 29 . Later at a gun show I found a Remington Model 10 - predecessor to the 29 Both of Browning design and patent (load and eject from bottom of receiver) So found a Ithaca Model 37 - Browning design same action Later found at another gun show a Browning Model BPM shotgun . So guess now I have the full series of 12ga all based on Browning's progression in that style of action . Shooting left handed these work great . Still one of my favorite shotguns for pheasant is the Iver Johnson single shot 12ga with the solid rib barrel of 34" length . ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 2:20pm
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My one unused firearms is the Winchester Model 100 I bought 55 years back . .284 caliber so hard to find ammo . but at the time I traded off a a Argentine 7mm Mouser I had bought at Coast to Coast hardware for $20 for first attempt in deer hunting . So now the Model 100 is more display than used , Should have traded it years back for something different ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 3:20pm
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Coke, that .284 is a rare bird... Might be looking at BIG MONEY... Do a Google search.. Might be worth selling if you dont need it. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 22 May 2025 at 4:06pm
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Coke in Mn, I have an old rifle, barrel says "Hudson Bay Co." it's in .284 Winchester, Bushnell scope, no iron sights. Came with some ammo, have 30 in 150 gr left. Bought at a farm auction in the 1980's. I've only shot it a few times, but hits where scope is pointed. Not much in Iowa to shoot it at but keeping for "just in case". The .223 handles ocassional coyote or badger and other pests out of .22 LR range/size. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 23 May 2025 at 12:43am
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Yea Coke, should have remembered you have a 284. There were 5 boxes of 284 Winchesters 150 grain and a box of unprimed brass on an auction 5 days ago. :-( ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 May 2025 at 11:50am
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I have a bunch of old Remington typewriters, at one time, the typewriter and rifle were separate divisions of the same company. The Remington family sold off the typewriter division before 1890. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 23 May 2025 at 2:50pm
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I have a set of dies for reloading .284 a guy said i should buy them , but no press and never reloaded anything so another one of these days things , think i have 40 rounds setting here but so said last time he used gun had 2 no fires out of 4 tries using it . Could have been bolt didn't seat all the way as is one problem with Model 100 , bolt may not move fully forward when chambering a round . Debated selling or trading - a Model 88 lever action was on list of might look for ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 28 May 2025 at 8:05am
Most New England firearms manufacturers either had IN their facility, or were located within a block or two, of manufacturers of other small-mechanism-based products... that means typewriters, sewing machines, clock and timer mechanisms. There's no coincidence here- the labor skills required for fitment of the products were all the same. Firearms manufacture has two market flows- one is to the general public, which is usually fairly constant, and the other is governmental contracts, which are usually expected to be all domestic, but in reality, are just as much foriegn (meaning, they're making for some other country's military). When there's a lull between those contracts (and there's big lulls), there's a labor surplus. When there's a high-demand contract, there's a labor shortage. Typewriters and sewing machines see both civilian AND military demand... when Remington went into typewriters, it was to meet MILITARY demand, but after the Civil War, there was considerable consumer demand, as the cost of manufacture for what is otherwise a really mechanism-fancy machine went way down with production process improvement. Sewing machines, in the same way, became much more profitable as the price came into reach for average people. Remington became Remington-Rand, which then became Sperry-Rand, which developed some really slick machinery used in both military (Norden bombsight, naval fire control, anti-aircraft, etc) and civilian (payroll and accounting computing, air traffic control radar, etc)... stuff. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Lars(wi) wrote:Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 28 May 2025 at 8:08am
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[QUOTE=Coke-in-MN]...said last time he used gun had 2 no fires out of 4 tries using it . Could have been bolt didn't seat all the way as is one problem with Model 100 , bolt may not move fully forward when chambering a round . Could be a headspace issue, but also primer inset depth, or something as simple as a fouled firing pin. A little corrosion or dirt in the seatpoint will keep that pin from landing deep enough to set the primer off... (don't ask how I know...  )------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 29 May 2025 at 2:18pm
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Had the 284 worked over by gunsmith after buying it and he cleaned and polished bolt , bolt face and firing pin area - said it was a common problem on the model 100 with bolt not setting hard enough to turn lock on bolt . Misfires were factory ammo - so not my inept reloading try . Had a Weaver K3 scope mounted with tipoff hinge but is actually higher than rear site is so need to adjust for open site . The 284 is not a popular long range competition shooting round as long and flat shooting round . Know the deer I hit with it were close in range so in scope and fire , they dropped . Shot a few fox at long range and even there when it seemed they were just beyond distance sited in on - one shot was all that was needed - my duck the fox had didn't survive so should have let the fox go - but the principal if him raiding my ducks prevailed ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |