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Just got back here from our annual three-week sojourn in the wonderful state of Oregon, mostly helping out a dear friend of ours whose husband had died suddenly last October.
As usual, we worked our way around the western end of the state, using Eugene as our base, visiting with friends in Port Orford, Salem and Cannon Beach, and a few others around our home-base, and once again, hit the lucky button in my quest for old, El Paso-made Weaver scopes to add to my collection.
It ain't 'zackly like new outside, but looking through it, well, it might have just come out of the box - an all-steel [except for the glass, right?] 3-9 V9.
For a nickel under twenty-five bucks.
Deal or what?
That baby is going right on one of my Swiss rifles - today.
The vendor has more stuff in the same price range, and you are guaranteed at least half an hour quality yakking before the deal is done - priceless, IMO.
He also has a VERY nice, if slightly costy, s/42 P08, as well.
PM me for a location i.d.
tac
PS - to those kind folks who offered me some shooting time, my deepest apologies, but we were so busy doing stuff that I still haven't gotten used to sitting down doing nothing. In the three weeks, less a few days being elsewhere, we weather-treated a newly-built pump-house, finished off a four-hundred square-foot deck, catalogued a moderately-large gun collection, ditto a guitar and ukelele collection, AND THREE model railroad collections, refurbed the paint on a nice '65 muscle car, looked at and bought a Subaru legacy runaround, did some general garden work, and more.
PPS - a spotlight on the recently-relocated Mazama Gun Room in their spiffy new store in Yoojeen. The head honcho there made me as welcome as a very welcoming person, and spent some time batting the breeze with this non-buyer, for which I'm very grateful. Tells me that they are taking over the next door premises as well - a same-size floor-space. Now THAT should be interesting to see - possibly the largest one-man gun-store in the state? I feel an application for a green card comin' on, me, AND I already speak 'gun', as well as pretty passable English. For those who need feeding as well as shooting - Carl Jnr's is about fifty meters away. They serve a Great Western burger that I recommend highly.
tac
As usual, we worked our way around the western end of the state, using Eugene as our base, visiting with friends in Port Orford, Salem and Cannon Beach, and a few others around our home-base, and once again, hit the lucky button in my quest for old, El Paso-made Weaver scopes to add to my collection.
It ain't 'zackly like new outside, but looking through it, well, it might have just come out of the box - an all-steel [except for the glass, right?] 3-9 V9.
For a nickel under twenty-five bucks.
Deal or what?
That baby is going right on one of my Swiss rifles - today.
The vendor has more stuff in the same price range, and you are guaranteed at least half an hour quality yakking before the deal is done - priceless, IMO.
He also has a VERY nice, if slightly costy, s/42 P08, as well.
PM me for a location i.d.
tac
PS - to those kind folks who offered me some shooting time, my deepest apologies, but we were so busy doing stuff that I still haven't gotten used to sitting down doing nothing. In the three weeks, less a few days being elsewhere, we weather-treated a newly-built pump-house, finished off a four-hundred square-foot deck, catalogued a moderately-large gun collection, ditto a guitar and ukelele collection, AND THREE model railroad collections, refurbed the paint on a nice '65 muscle car, looked at and bought a Subaru legacy runaround, did some general garden work, and more.
PPS - a spotlight on the recently-relocated Mazama Gun Room in their spiffy new store in Yoojeen. The head honcho there made me as welcome as a very welcoming person, and spent some time batting the breeze with this non-buyer, for which I'm very grateful. Tells me that they are taking over the next door premises as well - a same-size floor-space. Now THAT should be interesting to see - possibly the largest one-man gun-store in the state? I feel an application for a green card comin' on, me, AND I already speak 'gun', as well as pretty passable English. For those who need feeding as well as shooting - Carl Jnr's is about fifty meters away. They serve a Great Western burger that I recommend highly.
tac
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