I'm currently like an expectant mother, as I'm about to have a new member to my family in a gun I didn't know I wanted until the anticipation grew on me, in a Savage 19 NRA 22 rifle which belonged to my Uncle.
Auntie decided to sell it to me and now I'm wondering how much restoration it is going to require as...........well we don't know if the barrel, the sites or what is wrong with this thing, and I fear the worse.
It is not that this gun has a great family history as I think uncle picked it up from some rancher on a deal nor that this is some expensive heirloom as it is not. It simply is the doughboy 22, which Savage Arms turned out after World War I, after those million Americans got exposed to bolt action 30.06 rifles in the Great European War.
Mine I believe is the bottom one, in having the full military Manlicher stock and not drilled for a scope.
I get sad about this firearm, as it was from a time when little boys and some girls got guns for Christmas. It was a time when you could order a gun from a company and have it shipped through the mail to your door and no one thought a thing of it.
It was a time when a twenty dollar bill would buy you a gun and more ammunition than you could ever hope to eat rabbits and squirrels you could harvest with that firearm.
America was so much more better than and not the gulag it is now, when I will bet you cash money that none of the leading "conservative" voices in media has ever bought their kid or spouse a gun, and they all sat around on a birthday or Christmas beaming over that new toy.
I honestly have never liked bolt action firearms. I know they are more sound and more accurate, but they always seemed less romantic to me.
I remember the African Hunter, Finn Agaard, writing about his prized BRNO 22 which he shot myriads of game with, in how much he loved that little gun. It was such a glowing article that everyone then wanted one, and Kimber and Ruger both came out with little bolt action rifles.
It is funny that way in I never liked semi automatics and yet my chosen 22 is a Stevens 3 in 1, an old club which shoots like an Olympic match rifle. Agaard frequently wrote of the 7 mm, but loved Jack O'Connors 270, and Mr. O'Connor fabled for the 270 loves Agaard's 7 mm Mauser.
This 19 NRA has already grown on me though as I'm fussing about it. Thinking about it, and pondering about playing with it, if it doesn't try to kill me as some old firearms will. I see great adventure in this long heavy gun, in I will get a military sling to make it even more heavy as that is what she deserves, play with that clip magazine and just see what she is all about after a good cleaning which I'm not looking forward to, as that bolt and firing pin being old, will probably not want to move in an encrusted spring.
In part, I place the information on this 19 here as it is extremely difficult to find information on a firearm in which something like 50,000 were made. That is a shame, as those who have them really like this little target match rifle..........imagine that, a rifle which American produced cheaply so it's Citizens could go out and not play golf, but have tournaments in which hundreds of people were shooting targets.
Now America has golfers and it produces an Obama.
My beloved Uncle had a club of a 22 which my Mom inherited.........no name on the thing, just an ugly bolt action which sometimes fired, but was always dead on.......which I traded to my brother for a.........well he said he fixed the club and she shoots fine.
It still probably preferred me as I took it out to shoot skunks, opossums and coons........made it work too, as shooting through live traps requires not missing every time.
I once had a skunk get out of a trap, because I let it out.........and that club did not fire.........that was a mess of me in the weeds, little skunks, and dancing about as I hoped that gun went off when I did find my escaping egg eaters.
I do not know yet what adventure I will have to take this 22 on, as it is a weapon of World War I and state militias bought them to teach young city dudes how to shoot, before they got the big stuff in 06.
Mark Levin should have had such a gun.......Sean Hannity.........Rush Limbaugh.........Ann Coulter.........and they would have been men America would have been proud of and amounted to something, and not be Obama voters and betrayers of hardworking Americans they steal money from in market share.
Twizzler eaters, tennis players, golf players and a non reproductive woman...........such absolute city kids..........and I suppose it is good that a 19 never ended up in their clutches as it would have miserable like a hunting dog in a kennel, as what the hell do those folks know about America and guns........no more than Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
This definitely is not a gun I wanted, but it is a gun of part of my destiny. A quite harmless little thing which Annie Oakley became a woman with......
I think I'm going to find a place for this gun to display her. Maybe she will whisper to me a fitting adventure.........like a date to some special shooting range where I could pretend I was Carlos Hathcock winning Wimbledon in the 1000 yard matches. Yes there will be critters bagged, but this lady must have some place of history to join other firearms and Americans who actually think of an outing is burning powder and not chasing white balls around in knocking them into holes.
Ronald Reagan was a boy. America was not socialist FDR.......it was still Conservative Hoover. No Hawaiian state and foreign registered babies to overthrow America...........I do have to treat his rifle well, as she was actually made in an America that was real and not a fiction.
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