I’ve got a Stevens Model 24 in .22/.410. It belonged to my GrandPapa. He bought sometime in the 1940s so he could shoot rabbits in his garden from his front porch. I’ve killed a bunch of rabbits and squirrels with it as a kid.

My Uncle Paul had it next after Papa died. It was promised to me next but my cousin-in-Law took it when Uncle Paul died. I drove from East Texas to North Carolina to buy it back from him for $125.

Not quite as good of a deal as Duke got but I’m sure glad I got it !!! Every time I hold it, it reminds me of Papa teaching me to shoot it, how to whistle, how to cast a rod & reel, etc.

Coach & Duke,

It always amazes me of the history of a family firearm.

My first (I still have it) was a Mossberg Model 183K bolt action 410.

Always seems that there was a Savage Model 24 of some sort with a family/friend/neighbor or acquaintance.

I remember some having the plastic/tenite stock and fore end.

Wayne

OK...
Rifles & Randalls. For my guests I provide them with a Ruger American bolt-action in 6.5 Creedmore with optics being a Leupold 3-9X Fire Dot. If they do not have (and it is amazing how many do not) a decent hunting knife, I hand them my RMK Model #26-4", carbon steel and stag handle! I'll try and post some photos soon.
Stay sharp, Capt. Chris

Capt, sounds like you are setting them up for success equipment wise for sure.
Walker

Vouch for that,I can!
100%

Ram, Good to see you online. Now just between us and the fence post, did the Good Capt put you on a deer?
Walker

Fence Post here!
I, too, would like to know about the deer the Capt. guided you to.

Funny you post that. Wife 1.0 was from "stone post country."

I got my "15 minutes of fame" when a photog caught me doing a demonstration on how to harvest posts from that layer of limestone they call "postrock."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencepost_limestone

Old beaver tail. When I first went west from Louisiana Tech forestry Department the summer of 1965, I worked for the Forest Service as a lookout tower observer. Before we were placed on the tower, we had to go to fire school, learn about fire behavior, and just learn what took to be in isolation for 9 weeks. Before we took the hike to our respective lookout towers, we did chores around the Ranger station. Two guys were detailed to take some concrete fench posts and dump them at prescribed locations. As the two fellow heaved the very heavy concrete fence post in the back of a pickup, one fellow lost his grip and it fell on his pee pee. Anytime you have an accident in the federal government, you must fill out an accident form, in triplicate. The secretaries thought that was hilarious and sent a copy to the Supervisor's office in Missoula, Montana. Whenever they talked about that fellow, his nickname was Beaver tail.

Pap

I drive I-70 through Kansas to go to the Tulsa Arms Show and always like seeing the limestone posts and the Cathedral of the Plains in Victoria, KS.