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I just got the metal work back. It is a Win. Mod 63 22 long rifle. It is complete with a neat little quarter rib, barrel band swivel, barrel band front sight, NECG gold faced partridge front bead, a Talley slide off and on peep that slides on the rear extended quarter rib, and topped off with Talley 7/8" quick detachable rings holding a Leupold 2.5X Leupold Alaskan scope. Now all I need to do is stock it in a piece of near black sho nuff exhibition Turkish walnut that I have been saving for some special project. All is done in petite styling. Its beautiful. With this little jewell, I will slay Francolin, grouse, small antelope and who knows maybe a full grown Cape Buffalo and pose him on AR for effect. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | ||
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Sounds great...but, you must also give us the particular bullet you will be using to take that cape buffalo, how many rounds does the magazine hold, and how does the recoil seem when compared with a .600 Nitro Express?  .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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Ray, Mind I'm not trying to be picky or critical but do you mean "LYMAN" Alaskan. This is about the second or third time I've seen reference to a 'Leupold' Alaskan but first time I've seen it reffered to as a 7/8". All the Alaskans I have seen and the one I have are Lyman. If there is a Leupold Alakan is it a new model. The Win 63 sounds like something I would dearly love. I have often thought of taking a 22 to Zim for that specific reason. I in fact bought a Kimber .17MachII for that purpose but heard somewhere that you couldn't take a .22 to some countries in Africa. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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 Ray, When are you going to sell it? Before or after it gets stocked.  Keith Sorry, could not help myself.  IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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Probably keep it up to the time another horse needs buying along with all the gear.  Lo do they call to me, They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla, Where the brave may live forever. | |||
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Great idea for a bird gun. I started out with a 63 years ago. Can you take a semi-auto .22LR to Africa? | |||
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Ray, I still have the Mod. 63 Winchester I shot my first rabbit with and last year I bought a Taurus Mod. 63 in 22LR. It is a faithful reproduction of the Winchester. I miss rabbit hunting so much! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Oh, Keith, that was tacky. . . fair, but tacky!  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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1st Rifle was my dads 63. Still shoot it and love it. Rusty, you know Keith just can't help himself.  Semper Fi WE BAND OF BUBBAS STC Hunting Club | |||
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and all in fun.  I hope Ray does just what he plans for it, and keeps it for a loooong time.Keith IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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As of June 1st, all rimfire guns will not be allowed for hunting in RSA. Can't say about the other countries but I sure wanted to take my .17 this trip  Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Ray is the only "True" Gun Whore I know! I admire him for that! And he's a good man! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Zimbabwe, Leupold made a small run of the exact, but improved scopes a few years ago and I had 4 of them and sold 3 lately as they got so high. The only difference is the Leupold has a centered crosshair. Neatest scope I ever owned. Made them in 2.5, 4 and 6x. Hog Killer, I will sell this little jewell at any time as I have another just like it in the gun case and I can do the same thing with it!! Right now its price at $1500 with the wood tossed in and thats a steal, once stocked it will fetch about $4500 is my guess. I can't stock it if someone buys it as I will be working on my other one. BTW you can shoot the head off a pin head at 50 yards every time with this one. Those 63s all shoot like varmint rifles. I got 1/2 and 3/4 inch groups in testfire. I know, once a gun whore always a gun whore!!  475 Guy, Hey, and I don't even need another horse, but there is this nice little grey heel horse that I have an eye for. I would like to have a practice horse to save my good boy. You may have me pegged. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray, pictures please! Sounds beautiful! So again, Pictures please! It's a Mauser thing, you wouldn't understand. | |||
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Tarus is reproducing the Model 63 in blued and stainless.  Taurus Model 63 .22 Semi-Automatic Rifle That stainless model deserves a synthetic stock don't you think.  The perfect companion rifle to a stainless synthetic .404 Jeffery | |||
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Send me an email and I will be glad to forward you pictures, I can do that but cannot post them on AR, still don't know how. BTW, I bloodied the little wonder yesterday. I shot a rockchuck out my kitchen window at about 100 yards, instant kill, so now I know it will get me a Cape Buffalo with a head shot, slip one in the ear and run like hell yelling Pierre, he's all yours! Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray, I just picked up a M-63 from your neck of the woods. Bromley's in Plymoth, IA. I grew up shooting a M-63 with my Grandpa and when he passed on it went to someone else in the family. Anyway, now I have my own. Would like to see pictures of what you did with your's. | |||
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MHC or whoever wants to see a picture, just email me your email address and I can send you some pics of the gun in its present state and the wood I am going to use. My records show it is New Zealand walnut, not Turkish, and it is almost black and has green highlights. I have been hoarding it for years. It is beatiful stuff, and most fitting for my new Cape Buff gun. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray, if you want, email it to me and I will post it here. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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