A scope on a winchester model 25 shotgun

#A scope on a winchester model 25 shotgun serial#

So he says, yeah, but this one I got for you has a low serial number. He replied 'another of those old Model 70s you seem to like so well.' Of course I told him I already had a couple. So I was polite, if only because he was a good friend and after all, it was Christmas time. He was helpful like that, figuring I wasn't already good enough at spending my meager salary. Well he said, you've got a new gun in layaway down here at Antique and Modern. So I asked him why I'd want to do all that driving on Christmas Eve. He said 'can you get out of work fast and make it to Lexington?' Of course he was a county coroner and could pretty much do as he wanted.

But it was maybe 10:00 and my phone rang. Had it been up to me, I'd have let the ones that showed up go and docked the ones who didn't. It was Christmas eve no less, and I had the task of keeping a hundred and some poor grunts at the grindstone at least until a reasonable hour. So a couple of years later I was at work. And my table partner John was amused at my antics. I have no idea when those started, but they were the cats meow in the 1950s. Turns out it was #2762 or something like that. They were more than happy because it was getting on about pack up time, and folding cash is easier to carry than guns. Amazing how you look at every gun everywhere else, and kind of ignore those right next to you. Then as I was coming back into our 'island' of tables I noticed the end cap tables next to us had a nice rifle. I'd covered every square inch of the Louisville show (no small feat) and was a happy camper. About 10 or 12 years ago I was finishing up a good weekend at the gunshow. Mine is s/n 8000 and has the early slender stock with the small pistol grip and slender butt. On a more serious note, any opinions regarding the 54 in 30-06 as a one-and-only rifle? It kinda sang to me when I picked it up and I wanted to drop into a prone position right then and there! I have no real NEED for it, and I'm a pistol type of person, but. It tickled me to see that it seems to have a stripper clip guide, which immediately gave me armchair adventurer images of wandering the hills after the collapse of civilization with a WWII cartridge belt (with my Ka-Bar and BHP hanging from it, of course)! Serial 349XXA ('A' apparently means improved extractor). This one's in 30-06, Lyman receiver sight (I assume its a Model 48, which could be had as an option), standard barrel marked 'Nickelsteel' (that changed later in the production run), some worn bluing, but a nice NRA-style stock and a leather sling. I've looked up as much as I could find on the internet, so I know the basic history of the model. I must explain that I know very little about hunting rifles, but years ago I found that I really enjoyed learning to shoot a Navy M-14 and thought that a good bolt action with receiver sights would be a nice thing to have someday. She has sold some in the past, but I saw she had a Model 54, and told her that I'd be interested if she ever wanted to sell it.

A friend has several longarms left from her husband. This is one of those 'I know a widow.' situations.

A scope on a winchester model 25 shotgun