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Old rifles never die, they just get passed on!

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20 November 2002, 19:28
ALF
Old rifles never die, they just get passed on!
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21 November 2002, 09:25
Safari-Hunt
Even though it haunts you it's nice to see that your rifle is till around and being used. [Big Grin]

What a coincidence I actually have that issue with me in my briefcase at work [Big Grin]

Do you actually know Erik Engelbrecht ? I know the retired doctor that he brought his practise from in East Londen. He also has a beautifull game farm in Aliwal North. Small world [Big Grin]
21 November 2002, 06:47
Atkinson
I think I read in Magnum one time that a rifle never is really owned by anyone, it is just borrowed for a time...I believe that.

I wish I knew the history on my double and some of my English bolt guns, particularly my 375 H&H that I have been restoring for the last two years and am almost finished. I know it was used by poachers, and at one time it was a commercial croc hunters rifle and it showed it in rust and rot...I paid $600. for this Holland and Holland, so you can imagine its condition, but the bore was prestine. Apparantly the owner only took care of the bore and inside of the gun..not uncommon among USERS of guns in those days. It now looks like the day it came out of the London store. Albiet like grandads axe, two new heads and three new handles, but it is still grandads axe..
21 November 2002, 07:32
Brent
quote:
Originally posted by Atkinson:
[QB]I think I read in Magnum one time that a rifle never is really owned by anyone, it is just borrowed for a time...I believe that.
/QB]
Then, I sure wish the borrowers would return them in the condition and configuration they found them in.
Brent
02 December 2002, 03:15
John Frazer
quote:
Originally posted by Atkinson:
I think I read in Magnum one time that a rifle never is really owned by anyone, it is just borrowed for a time...I believe that.

Great saying and so true -- 8 years ago I bought an AyA 12-gauge boxlock off a used-gun rack -- an unusual model that came with sling swivels and a splinter forend, as best I could find out it was never imported here.

I couldn't hit anything with it so I sold it to a co-worker -- this spring I was shooting sporting clays and ran into some other co-workers and one of them (a neighbor just a couple blocks away) had it. Turns out it had passed through 2 or 3 others in between. Of course working at the NRA may be a little different ...

John