Bear, Fine looking burgers and I thank you for your service.I smiled when you talked about your .308 model 88. That was my first deer rifle bought from saving up my high school summer job money.I still have it today but it sits in the gun cabinet collecting dust.
Thank You CM!!
And Thanks for the Like.
And You just won another story:
When I got out of Vietnam, my best High School Buddy (Hunky-Jack) was already back for 6 months (because he was a year older than I was).
Up until then I was either using my British .303 or one of my Dad's 3040 Krags, for Deer & Bear.
So we decided to get new Deer Rifles. We ended up at the Army-Navy Store, and I fell in love with the Win Model 88 (.308) for $137.
Jack bought the Savage .308 (also a lever action), because it was $18 cheaper "$119" than the Model 88.
I didn't like the Savage at all. It had a square slide-bolt, and each time you jacked it was like sandpaper riding on steel. (You could feel it grinding)
I tried to talk him out of it, but he liked the looks of the Savage.
So the first time we took them into the woods for Deer, it was raining most of the day, and much of the finish washed off of Jack's Savage. It turned out the stock was plastic, with fake wood-grain finish on it.
It cost him $75 for a wood stock to replace the original phony stock.
You get what you pay for.
Bear