GA Firing Line

What do you do

  • Hover

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Wipe and sit

    Votes: 10 41.7%
  • Birdnest

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • eww, i'm to uppidy to use a public tiolet

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Total voters
    24

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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You guys will probably all put me on ignore after this (if you can do that here, I don't know) but it's definitely foreign & kind of a build. (milsurp purists stop now)

My dad (USMC) saw combat in WWII on Peleliu, Okinawa & then was in China taking surrender of Japanese soldiers & other stuff until mid-1946. At some point on Okinawa, he found an 7.7mm Arisaka with the stock burned & got it home somehow. A buddy of his handmade a Monte Carlo stock for it, so technically it has been "sportirized". Still has a nice, crisp mum. (I can't find a pic of the mum & markings right now. I'll take another in the next day or so). The guy who made the stock in the late 40s was obviously gifted, so there is nothing "bubbaed" about it. My dad used it deer hunting & I learned to deer hunt with it. Don't shoot it much, but couldn't bring myself to sell it no matter how broke we got. (& my wife, to her credit, told me to never sell it.) Anyway, pics.@Leadhoof & a couple of other guys here have seen it.
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OK, ya'll can kick me out of the thread now.

Hell of a story and that rifle is badass!
 
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Miles

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Jul 20, 2016
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You guys will probably all put me on ignore after this (if you can do that here, I don't know) but it's definitely foreign & kind of a build. (milsurp purists stop now)

My dad (USMC) saw combat in WWII on Peleliu, Okinawa & then was in China taking surrender of Japanese soldiers & other stuff until mid-1946. At some point on Okinawa, he found an 7.7mm Arisaka with the stock burned & got it home somehow. A buddy of his handmade a Monte Carlo stock for it, so technically it has been "sportirized". Still has a nice, crisp mum. (I can't find a pic of the mum & markings right now. I'll take another in the next day or so). The guy who made the stock in the late 40s was obviously gifted, so there is nothing "bubbaed" about it. My dad used it deer hunting & I learned to deer hunt with it. Don't shoot it much, but couldn't bring myself to sell it no matter how broke we got. (& my wife, to her credit, told me to never sell it.) Anyway, pics.@Leadhoof & a couple of other guys here have seen it.
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OK, ya'll can kick me out of the thread now.
Beautiful rifle and story. Right up the alley for this thread.