PICS_1937 Model 71 Carbine "Short Rifle"
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PICS_1937 Model 71 Carbine "Short Rifle"
Here's some PICs as requested by some of my 1937 Vintage Model 71 "Short Rifle" AKA Carbine w/Bolt Peep sight. It handles nice and has very quick sight alignment for hunting Elk in the timber. The PICs aren't that good, so I took a couple of close ups as well. Wish I had a better Camera...Check out the price on that box of 250gr Silvertips in the last Pic....not sure what year that was, but I paid a heck of lot more than that... $5.65
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I feel very lucky to have run into this Rifle. I picked it up from an Elderly Marine who Served on Guadalcanal during WW2, which makes it even more special...to me anyway. I am a life member of the Marine Corps League and met this gentleman while attending some meetings. He was a Winchester Buff, and told me it was the only one he had ever come across.
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Thanks...Boreman wrote:Absolute classic. Beautiful !!!! You just got yourself the best levergun ever made.Congrats!!!! (that comment will be grounds for discussion)
I've had the rifle since 2000....have had/have other 71's but this is the only "Short Rifle." Have a friend who also has an Early "Short Rifle", yet his in a Standard...Great Elk Rifle! He tells me the Standard is harder to find than the Deluxe...?
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That's an interesting price on the ammo box. The first year of the $5.65 retail price for .348 ammo was 1962, and the "grizzly" box was current 1940-1946. I wonder if the box sat in a shop somewhere for a LOT of years? It seems too odd an amount to be a "gun show" price for the box, unless maybe somebody at a show wanted to put it out at the then-current retail price for the ammo.
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There's a 1937 "Short Rifle" like mine on sale in Cabelas Gun Library currently going for $7200.00 and it's about 85-90% maybe less , but Cabelas is always high with thier pricing. In another 10 years??? Who knows? I don't plan on selling it, but will leave it to my Daughter....or perhaps I'll have a Grandson someday. In the meantime, I am going to hunt with her....Lastmohecken wrote:That's a nice rifle, I seen a short rifle, but I think it was a standard, for over 4000.00 at the last Tulsa Wanenmacher Gunshow, and it wasn't as slick as yours.
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THAT's WHAT MY WIFE SAID I just layed low for a Month or two!!gon2shoot wrote:I like it I like it.
My wife would probably think I dont need one.
I made the mistake of showing it to her....I've had it for 8 years now, and it just blends in with the others...
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