Reeder Custom Guns - My first centerfire rifle .....

Jim Taylor
My first centerfire rifle .....
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 15:05

was an old British .303 that we bought at the Yellowfront Store in North Phoenix. They had a barrel full of them for about $15 each and Dad went through them and picked one that had a nice looking bore.

I was about 14 then and he took all the wood off it, whacked the barrel back to 16" (I come by that trait honestly)and cut off a lot of the metal on top of the receiver. He made a "peep" sight for it and loaded 130 gr. .308 bullets for me 'cuz they didn't kick so hard.

That was my first Deer Rifle.

My Second centerfire rifle was a Model 92 El Tigre leveraction in .44-40. I bought that just before I turned 16 if I remember correctly. I know I got it at the Jewel Box Pawn Shop in Phoenix. They had a HUGE Selection of guns and I picked this one out.

I cast the Keith .44 SWC and loaded them with heavy loads of 2400. I shot targets with it out to 400 yards or so. That was a fun gun and I carried it for many years. I packed it into the Superstition Mountains during the years Dad and I went prospecting there.

I don't miss the .303 but I do wish I had not traded off the El Tigre. But I had a girlfriend and she was griping 'cuz my hot rod wasn't running and I needed a dual carb setup for it so .......

Somewhere along the way I traded her off also.

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or else it was her that traded me off .... the history there is sorta blurry and vague these days.

My first centerfire rifle ..... - Jim Taylor, 2020-12-10, 15:05
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- 1st centerfire rifle - David R, 2020-12-11, 10:03
- My first was too much.. a .444 Marlin (nm) - Lynn, 2020-12-11, 09:12
- Win 94 30-30 (nm) - Derek, 2020-12-11, 05:38
  - Ditto, wish I still had that one. (nm) - Amede, 2020-12-11, 07:46
- .30 carbine when I was about 9. Then a 6mm rem - Brant, 2020-12-11, 02:01
- My first were a Savage 99 22 High Power, a Marlin 336 32 SPL - JPL, 2020-12-10, 20:05
- My first centerfire (and first gun) was - Ray Shepard, 2020-12-10, 19:31
- I still own my first center fire rifle. - Sid R, 2020-12-10, 17:29
- I grew up in east Phoenix. I remember the barrels of rifles - RonE, 2020-12-10, 15:47
  - They had .38 Enfields for around $6 or $7 also. (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2020-12-10, 15:51
- Mine was a Marlin 1894 in 357 Magnum... - Huey, 2020-12-10, 15:16
  - I sort of morphed my Dad's deer rifle into mine. - WB, 2020-12-10, 15:51
  - I never had a scoped rifle until in my 60's. (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2020-12-10, 15:38
    - The only rifle with a scope that I have now - Jim Taylor, 2020-12-10, 17:08
      - Those rifles shoot great. Ditto on the American Centerfires - Huey, 2020-12-10, 17:13
        94 - Rw, 2020-12-10, 20:27
        30-40 KRAG - Alcorn, 2020-12-11, 07:05
        centerfire rifle - joepjs, 2020-12-11, 11:07