***Modern Firearm*** Auction Location:ģ525 S. Smooth action, excellent bore and fine stocks. Rifle exhibits light scratches on the left side of the receiver and some small losses on the matted top strap. The 40X is long gone but, as I stated above, the Mountie is still with us.Limited edition commemorative rifle featuring a blued finish, 20" "JM" marked octagon barrel, full-length tube magazine, open sights, drilled & tapped receiver, installed hammer extension, smooth gold trigger, take-down receiver with with Marlin centennial seal type embellishment on the right side, smooth wood forend with bass cap and straight grip shoulder stock with tacked bass plaque in the right side & brass buttplate. I would become so frustrated that the harder I tried the worse I shot. She would regularly outshoot me with her Mountie. I had made a set of silhouette swinging targets to the. This rifle was incredibly accurate with WIN PISTOL MATCH ammo, now LONG discontinued. Just a side note: Quite some years later I obtained a REM 40X Sporter to which I added a Canjar SS trigger, Buehler base and rings and a 3x9AO Leupold. She still has it and it is still in excellent+ condition even after 1000s of rounds through it. Took me something like four months to pay off the $72.00, if I recall correctly, but it was totally worth it. but I went Draper Drug and put one on layaway. After the wife shot it the first time, she turn to me and said, "I really like that rifle" WOO HOO! I was working for less than $2.00 hr. Even with that ring, the Mountie would outshoot the 10-22. He had a Mountie that had a ringed barrel about 12" from the chamber. One Sunday we took our new found friend out with us. The wife mostly shot because she knew how much I liked to shoot and her interest was mainly just hanging out with me. I had sold my WIN 74 shorts only, (one of an untold number of bad moves I have made) to finance the 10-22. We took turns shooting it since it was the only. Then the fun began.Īt the time the 10-22 was brand new, I had purchased the first one of two that had been delivered to Draper Drug in Loveland. 22s till the rats came out towards evening. Because we were too broke to do much else, our usual Sunday afternoon entertainment was to go out to a farmers dump in the dryland east of town and shoot odds and ends of stuff with. He was the cause for my addiction the S&W 44 Magnums but that is another story. Shortly after we were married in 1964 the wife and I became acquainted with a fellow who would become a close, life long friend.
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