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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2438647" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>Wow, I read all 7 pages... and enjoyed every bit of it! Great stories.</p><p></p><p>My most sentimental firearm I suppose is one I don't own... it is my Dad's Winchester 190 tube feed semi auto .22 LR. It is the gun I taught myself to shoot with. My Dad inherited the old Winchester from my Grandpa, who was a food salesman and got it as a reward for commission back in the '60s. I never knew my Grandpa... he died before I was born. My Dad always told me the rifle was broken, and it sat in the basement neglected. Now my Dad was never a big shooter, but I was very interested in guns from an early age. When I was 13 or so, compelled by an irresistible force, I snuck down in the basement when nobody was home, got out the old rifle, and started tinkering with it. OK, by "tinkering" I mean I loaded a round in it and pulled the trigger. Wouldn't you know, it fired! It turned out the recoil spring rod was missing, which just basically made it a straight pull bolt action. This didn't stop me in any way, and I started sneaking the rifle out of the basement any chance I got, to do target practice and hunt squirrels. I had to learn to make my shots count, because there were only a few boxes of ammo with the rifle, and as a kid I would have had a hard time getting my hands on more! I was the quintessential "self-taught shooter," and that is the rifle I started with. </p><p></p><p>That old rifle is a little worse for the wear... the recoil spring guide rod has never been fixed, the bolt handle was lost on one of my forays into the woods, and the stock has a bad chip out of it. For a while I've been keeping my eye out for a deal on another 190 that I can take parts off of. I would really like to take that old rifle, fix it up so it looks new, and give it to my Dad for Father's day one of these years. I know it is one of the few things he has to remember his Dad by, and I know he would enjoy it now that I've got him into shooting!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2438647, member: 4235"] Wow, I read all 7 pages... and enjoyed every bit of it! Great stories. My most sentimental firearm I suppose is one I don't own... it is my Dad's Winchester 190 tube feed semi auto .22 LR. It is the gun I taught myself to shoot with. My Dad inherited the old Winchester from my Grandpa, who was a food salesman and got it as a reward for commission back in the '60s. I never knew my Grandpa... he died before I was born. My Dad always told me the rifle was broken, and it sat in the basement neglected. Now my Dad was never a big shooter, but I was very interested in guns from an early age. When I was 13 or so, compelled by an irresistible force, I snuck down in the basement when nobody was home, got out the old rifle, and started tinkering with it. OK, by "tinkering" I mean I loaded a round in it and pulled the trigger. Wouldn't you know, it fired! It turned out the recoil spring rod was missing, which just basically made it a straight pull bolt action. This didn't stop me in any way, and I started sneaking the rifle out of the basement any chance I got, to do target practice and hunt squirrels. I had to learn to make my shots count, because there were only a few boxes of ammo with the rifle, and as a kid I would have had a hard time getting my hands on more! I was the quintessential "self-taught shooter," and that is the rifle I started with. That old rifle is a little worse for the wear... the recoil spring guide rod has never been fixed, the bolt handle was lost on one of my forays into the woods, and the stock has a bad chip out of it. For a while I've been keeping my eye out for a deal on another 190 that I can take parts off of. I would really like to take that old rifle, fix it up so it looks new, and give it to my Dad for Father's day one of these years. I know it is one of the few things he has to remember his Dad by, and I know he would enjoy it now that I've got him into shooting! [/QUOTE]
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