Decided to share pics of a couple family heirloom rifles I have now.
The first is my great-grandfather's WWI combat rifle, a U.S. Krag in 30 U.S. later renamed 30-40 Krag. It's not worth much to most, because he sportsterized it after the war when he came home. He told stories of ringing the church bell down in a little town once with it and I can attest to it being accurate. Using Remington factory ammo in 220gr. RN, back in the 80's it was the first centerfire rifle I used to take a white tail deer.
A buddy of mine was pushing the woods behind their house called the Oaks and a big, 180# we found out later, doe stepped out of the woods and stopped in a small copse of poplar saplings. I knew it was a deer and I had both doe and buck tags and he'd told me to shoot any deer that came out, so I could only see a white spot between a V-space in the trees and I leveled my Krag and shot that white spot at 120 yards and hit it dead on. She didn't go far, less than 30 yards if memory serves. So this one holds a special place in my heart.
The second one is an IBM M-1 Carbine my grand-father picked up during WWII, although it wasn't his. He was already back stateside for a few weeks as ships began to come in from all corners of the globe to San Diego. My grandpa had run a minesweeper throughout WWII and didn't wasn't issued a small arms as he was the .50 Gunner on their little re-fitted wooden fishing boat, cum minesweeper. They had a double barrel 50 on the bow and a 2" gun at the stern and the captain carried a .45 auto. Anyway, he was at a dock welcoming home other soldiers being returned and a man coming off the ship walked up to him and said,"take this thing. I never wish to see it again." The man was very grateful to be home and no longer wanted to be reminded of what he'd had to do... So anyway, this one had a story too, so thanks for takin a look. I've never used this on deer, but it's pretty mean on ground hogs.
