ID Grandpa's Old 30-30
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Ringbill27
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I need to start notching my stocks.
texwest44
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As long as no one demands proof, you can project yourself as a master deer slayer with this method. Viewers would be none the wiser....
Ringbill27
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It’s more of me being able to keep track of how many each rifle has taken. Don’t really care what others think.
BrentD
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Better yet, take off the buttplate, drill a good sized hole with a Forster bit and stuff a license/tag or three in there, and maybe a photo for the heck of it. Make that gun tell its own provenance.
Nicoli7153
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One of the old wardens I knew used to take the butt plates off the stock of rifles he caught people violating with and stick his business card in the stock bolt hole. He had several of the rifles come back to him over the years.
BrentD
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Well this is just one of a bunch of things under my Winchester 1897's buttplate. Starting in 1917 with my Grand Uncle Carl.
Nicoli7153
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Very cool!!
elkantlers
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texwest44
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If my grandpa found out I did something like that, there is a very real chance get out of his wheelchair and kick my ass. A few years ago I watched him pick up and throw a goat, and his condition hasn't changed much since then. 95 years old and still kind of scary...
