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[1MoreFord]

OCD cleaning compulsion? ...................................................................................................
Why change the oil in your vehicle? It will run with dirty oil in it!!!

If you don't have an OCD compulsion cleaning your gun then do you change your oil nearly every time you drive your vehicle?

 

[forktender]

If you don't have an OCD compulsion cleaning your gun then do you change your oil nearly every time you drive your vehicle?

Only after 4500 mile trips.

 

[1MoreFord]

Only after 4500 mile trips.

I feel the same way about full disassembly of guns for cleaning. Better have been shot a lot or thru rough conditions.

 

[gnappi]

When my son was 10 I got him a Beretta 391 "youth" which worked pretty good for him. Unfortunately I think they're no longer made and most other shotguns do not work well on a youth's body type unless they're large.

 

[chopsaw]

My first shotgun was a Single shot 20GA sear & Roebuck Ted Williams model, I got it when I was 5 or 6 yrs old, and I still have it.

Yup . J C Higgins , then Ted Williams . I have one too , ( single 20 . Full choke ) . It just says Sears Roebuck on it , but I looked up the number , and it's made by Stevens .

 

[normanaj]

Yup . J C Higgins ,

Not to hijack this thread from it's original intent but I had a JC Higgins "Westerner" bb gun from Sears. Have no idea what ever happened to it.

 

[texomakid]

I had to get some of mine out this morning too . Lol .
I know nothing about that , but would love to own one , and for you it has personal value . That's the best kind .
Love to research this kind of stuff . Here's a link . Looks like it's made by Noble . Model 60 .
First I've heard of Noble .

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This is so cool. I appreciate you sharing that Chop. I'd love to know what dad paid for it new but my guess is probably less than $100 and in the late 60's he was hustling a full time job with about 3 side ventures just to make ends meet. Money was tight!

Quail hunting was a big part of that time period. Papaw, dad, and uncles hunted a lot. Around Thanksgiving every year they would start hitting the fields. Papaw had a couple of pointers that he trained. Ladybird & Duke. I can remember walking around Southern Oklahoma pastures & woods around the Blue River early in the morning. Wet, cold, dogs working. Sometimes a group of guys, Sometimes just me and papaw. I was probably around 5 yrs old when they started taking me with them? We ate a lot of fried quail (but they fried everything back then.) I was taught to hunt that shot with my tongue while eating quail and spit them out - same with bones eating catfish!

I probably consumed a lead pellet or 2 back then

 

[chopsaw]

I had a JC Higgins "Westerner" bb gun from Sears.

Did it look like this ? That one just says " Sears Roebuck " on it .

 

[normanaj]

Pretty much but I think I remember it having some kind of medallion on the stock and lever was stamped sheet metal.