If you're a hick son, start confessin', that life you've, kept hidden,
knowing that deep down you're one of us
welcome to the weekly meeting of Rednecks Anonymous"
This past weekend there was a gun show up in our neck of the woods and we worked out having a little bit of time to stop through and see if there was anything we couldn't live without. As I stopped at one booth there was a rack that had 10 or more 94's on it and a couple of them were just the ones I was looking for. Let me back up this with a story
you see when I went to the Jackson Armory and picked up my Lone Star edition 94 (link to that story here) what I was actually looking for was a pre-1964 version of the 1894. You see in 64 Winchester changed the way they manufactured these guns and the pre-64 versions are considered to be better built fire arms. Of course as you know from reading the story (you did read the story right? OK, good) I did not buy a pre-64 gun at Jackson Armory. I looked at some, but they just were not the right one.
So back to the original story. We looked at a couple of guns at the gun show and found one that was perfect.
A 1960 Winchester model 1894, chambered for 30-30, just like my Lone Star edition gun. Its is a gorgeous gun. It was between this and a 62 version, and what won me out on this one was the woodgrain. There is some beautiful wood grain in this gun.
Just a quick plug for the guys who were very helpful at that booth. It was "Past and Blast" out of Whitesboro Texas. http://www.pastandblast.com/ Might have to make the drive out there one day and see what other kind of trouble I can get into.
so after filling out all the proper paperwork we were on our way, gun in hand. Now I just have to get to the range and see how it shoots.
(factoid of the day, did you know that texans own almost 20% of the guns in America?)
I mentioned to the LOML that I might have to make a gun rack to show these guns off, Her comment was we might be getting real close to needing a gun safe. Hmmmmm...
DD
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