"Around the farm" gun, What's yours?

 You know,,,I always thought I just had to have one of those .17 HMR when they came out,,,just never could find one that I had enough dollars to buy,,,,,

 Dang,,,,! Ole Mr Kamp must be going after some of them rogue elephants hanging down along the bottoms,,,,??  I expect that cannon kills at Both ends,,,,?

thendrix wrote: Wow Dave!  What kind of critters you got around there?[QUOTE] None-  they don't get that close... [QUOTE=desertjoe]I expect that cannon kills at Both ends,,,,?

17HMR is a sweet little round.  338 has a bit more push, but not bad at all.  Significantly less than a Windrunner... but the shoulder plate is much more pleasant than a Mosin...

Thad-  if a stock is too short, turn that into an opportunity to trim the stock back a little more, and then install an adjustable buttplate and pad system. There's plenty, do a search for Graco for an example.

That is the sweetest of the sweet.

Many people have owned one for years and never knew that you can use a quarter in that big slotted screw and break it into two parts almost equal in length for easier packing.

Back when I was thirteen-yrs-old, I saved up yard-mowing money - five-bucks a yard - until I finally paid for the one hanging on the wall at Best Deal Discount and brought it home all mine.

A note about the yard mowing --- I lived at the dead-end of a starvation road, four miles out of town = all the yards that people would pay someone to mow were in town; so, I had to bicycle to town, dragging a push-mower beside me as I pedaled along, and somehow managing to not break the gallon glass Pickle Dog jar full of take-your-hide-off Regular Gasoline = don't think I didn't earn that five bucks.

Stupid like, a few years later, never having any money --- if you live in Kentucky you never do --- a fancy high-power Mauser took my eye and I traded my cherished Golden 39A to it --- I have kicked myself ever since.

Years and years and years later, I found one almost like it, same model and very close in date, and brought it home --- but, it just isn't the same and never will be.

A previous owner must have removed the Marlin Buckhorn sight, probably to mount a scope; and then, someone removed the scope and put on a wrong-looking cheap-looking dovetail ramp sight; I keep intending to get a better rear sight and only ever think of it at times like this.

What Model ?  What Year ?

I bet it's sweet.