Great story. Sure it wasn’t a Winchester 94 lever action? I can’t recall a Remington lever action that wasn’t a rimfire.
I myself cannot recall any lever-action Remingtons. Certainly in 30-30, Marlin and Winchester made 97% of them.
Thank you for a wonderful story.
No Remington lever guns that I know of. Maybe a Winchester?
I (we?) grew up in a different time. I had BB guns for as long as I remember. Dad let me shoot his Stevens 12 ga. double when I was about 8. That’ll teach you respect for what a gun can do. First “real” gun was a savage .410 pump when I was 10. Shot a lot of doves and rabbit with that.
That was about 20 guns ago. Never traded or sold any one of them execept for that first pump. I traded it to a guy I worked with as a first gun for his son. Don’t know why Dad went along with my interest in firearms. He was an Eagle Scout and maybe that had something to do with it. He had very little interest in hunting, or shooting for that matter.
I do know this. Teaching kids about guns at a young age makes them safer. No curiosity-killed the cat type things cause if you want to handle the weapon, shoot or want to know anything about it then Dad was there to make sure you did it safely. We had 4 boys in the house and several weapons available and no “accidents” or foolishness, ever.
Anyway, thanks dad for taking the time with me and my brothers to ensure that if it ever comes to it, we all know how to take care of ourselves and our families.
I just bought my son his first Bowie knife today, a Winchester. wood and steel, baby.
He’s shot my .22 since he was 7. He’s almost a better shot than I am.
Winchester, Marlin, Savage and now Mossberg were the only companies to manufacture a lever action 30.30.
My Wife owns a 1949 Winchester 30.30
“I was still working out the finer points of driving without scaring my dear mother to death,...”
I’m not sure I ever managed that.
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Viet Nam is no place for the traditional American rifleman, who prides himself on long-range sharpshooting and an unerringly steady hand. Though infantrymen do get some chances for this, most firefights occur at ranges of 50 ft. or less, in dense jungle that offers only a fleeting glimpse of the enemy. To hit so elusive a target requires “instinct shooting” of the highest order, and last week the U.S. Army was hard at work honing that instinct in its infantry trainees—using, of all things, Daisy BB guns.
BB With a BB. Known as “Quick Kill,” the program is currently being taught to some 1,300 recruits each week at Fort Benning, Ga., by late fall will become part of the basic infantry course in all twelve U.S. Army training centers. “Quick Kill is for the shot you’ve got to make when you don’t have time to line up your sights,” says Colonel William Koob, 47, director of weapons at Benning. “When it’s either kill or be killed.” After a day of instruction and the expenditure per man of 800 BBs (which cost only as much as two M-14 bullets), half of the trainees can hit a penny in midair. An impressive 5% get sharp enough to hit a BB with a BB.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899618,00.html/