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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2606685" data-attributes="member: 24446">Here's mine, a Remington 514 date of birth 1947 iirc. (I need to research it again and double check the exact year).  It's my very first gun ever.  It belonged to a friend of my dads and I found it sitting in a dusty corner of his living room while my dad was visiting.  The friend saw me looking at it and asked if I wanted to buy it.  I was like 11 I think, I didn't know anything from anything so I said "sure" and he said "ok, $10".  I guess I thought they were messing with me, when you are that age adults are always messing with you, so I looked at my dad and he said "well, I guess you should pay the man" and I said "um..dad, I don't have ten dollars".  He busted up laughing as did his friend and my dad pulls out a ten dollar bill and hands it to me.  I still think they are messing with me but I thought *what the heck* and took the money from my dad and handed it to his friend.  He looked at me and said "Congratulations, you just made one heck of a deal".I had no idea what he meant and I still thought they were messing with me but then the guy said "you bought it, it yours, pick it up and take it with you".  At that point I started wondering if they were serious so I picked it up and went and sat by my dad holding it.  I still wasn't sure it wasn't them playing a joke until we walked out the door with it.  My dad had already put me through his version of a gun safety course, which was way more intense than the official one I went through later, so he knew I knew how to handle the gun safely but my mom was a whole different story, she was not happy LOL.  Fortunately dad convinced her I knew what I was doing and I was allowed to keep it.The front sight was broken, probably the reason it's previous owner had relegated it to corner duty so that Christmas dad got me a 4X Bushnell scope for it.  He laughed that the scope and the cost of mounting was 20X the cost of the rifle.  I spent several years "sniping" cans, sticks and rocks.  My dad gave me a little H&R Topper Jr .410 the next year which happened to be the year he died.  Unfortunately, someone stole the H&R, which still makes me sick whenever I think of it.  He was the greatest dad in the world and we didn't get much time together but I am thankful that he instilled that love of shooting in me because it's something I have loved ever since.So here she is. The original Bushnell scope's cross hairs broke many years ago and the rifle sat unused the whole time.  A few years ago I decided to put a new 4X, a Nikon this time, on the rifle and shoot her again.  I used the same scope mounts and I kept the broken original Bushnell.  I took it to the range and once the new scope was dialed in the rifle still shot beautifully which is saying something for a rifle this old with a trigger that wobbles around like a straw in a soda glass LOL.  I absolutely LOVE this rifle <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /><a href="http://s.photobucket.com/user/Brandiwynter/media/IMG_0274_zps4dt2jddv.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/img.photobucket.com_albums_v660_Brandiwynter_IMG_0274_zps4dt2jddv.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://s.photobucket.com/user/Brandiwynter/media/IMG_0275_zpsjfvtivhc.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/img.photobucket.com_albums_v660_Brandiwynter_IMG_0275_zpsjfvtivhc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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