Gunshow quote that made my day

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mj246

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So I stopped at the High Caliber Gun show in Houston earlier today to browse around and get my hopes up for the future. While perusing the usual wares, I happen to pass by a man with his wife and about 10 or so year old daughter. As I pass I hear the daughter look up to the father and say:

"Dad I'm booorrred.......can we go to the shooting range after this?"

Put a huge grin on my face:D

To keep this more firearms related, some neat or different/interesting stuff I saw:
-Thunder 5
-a pair of 38spl Ruger Service Sixes, one blue and one stainless
-An interesting older semi-auto rifle, I can't remember the brand, that said it was chambered for some sort of 35 caliber
-and a great collection of old colt DA revolvers, most of them officer's match 38s (in case you haven't noticed I favor wheelies)

Anybody else hear or see anything interesting or just plain awesome at a gun show recently (past month or so)?
 
Once saw a "turkey gun" 12ga with about 10' of stainless barrel at a gunshow (no joke!). Eye catching to say the least.

Added : Or maybe it was a goose gun? Either way, different.
 
That older rifle was probably a Winchester '07 in .351 Wichester Self Loading.


Or perhaps a Remington Model 8, which was avaible in Remington .35

Both of those, to me atleast, are very interesting weapons. To me, they were a forerunner of the assualt rifle concept more than the StG-44 was.

Charlie Askins wrote of many Border Patrol agents using the Winchester '07 in the early thirtys.
 
Thanks SPEMack618!

Just 'Googled' both of those models and it was definitely the Remington. One of the most interesting rifles I have seen in quite some time, I may have to research them some more now.
 
No problem.

I myself am an ardent fan of the Winchester '07.

A bit of personal history....

In the wiley days of the Great Depression, my paternal Great Grandfather was the sheriff in a neighboring county, the election fixed as a reward, or so the family legend goes, for Great-Grandpappy's service in WWI as a Captain in the National Army, but having to revert back to his rank of Sergeant in the Georgia National Guard because of his illiteracy.

Being the Great Depression, the budget for the Sheriff's Dept. was slim to non-existent, so he ordered a Winchester '07 from the Sears catalogue to be his patrol rifle as it were.
 
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