Winchester 1895 .35 WCF

Ronnie P
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Friday, April 22, 2022, 05:17 (1566 days ago)

One Sunday several years ago I was covering for one of the other dispatch supervisors on the 3 - 11 shift which meant I got to work with a sgt that was a good friend. We talked about guns for a little while at the copy machine while getting copies of the days shift roster and then he went out on the road and I went back to dispatch. We received a call about a man with a pistol had broken into a house and was searching the house and had a gun. The two female residents were in the bathroom calling us. Dale arrived on scene and gave the vehicle tag and description and that was the last thing he ever said. The scum bag ambushed him and shot him several times in the head. One of his friends is selling his guns for his wife and I picked up this rifle. It has been refinished and looks great. I hope I have the chance to drop a deer with it for Dale. I would really love to shoot the scumbag sitting in prison for murdering him
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What a sad tale and beautiful rifle.

WB
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Friday, April 22, 2022, 12:40 (1566 days ago) @ Ronnie P

I have always wanted one to try myself. John Wooters wrote a wonderful story when I was a boy about taking out his Uncle's guns and shooting at ducks on the water. They had a M95 in .405 Win. and a 10 ga. double. Like little Elmer mused "if you can't handle recoil, you ain't a man", or something to the effect. But sometimes it's real tough to be a man! lol

Also Osa Johnson and her husband took them to Africa in the 1920's using them to great effect. Prior to that the Roosevelt expeditions seemed to always have a 1895 around as did some of the early Arctic explorations. The gun literally drips history and adventure.

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