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by GeneMO
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:41 am
Forum: Visits
Topic: Hobson’s Choice, defined
Replies: 1
Views: 2197

Re: Hobson’s Choice, defined

The kinda choice where you have to hold you nose before you push the button? Know what you mean. Not to drift off too much into politics, but my wife and I have talked of this often. I really, really, really think, our voting system should be changed to have a mandated choice, on every and all ballo...
by GeneMO
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: Visits
Topic: How I got my Winchester 61 pump rifle.
Replies: 1
Views: 1618

How I got my Winchester 61 pump rifle.

Old dreary day here, so thought I would tell you a story. Hope I haven't told this before. So I inherited my dads Winchester 61 when he passed away 20 years ago. But how he got the gun is the story. So to set the stage. He had been reading about this model, and had asked the local hardware store if ...
by GeneMO
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Visits
Topic: One of my other hobbies
Replies: 7
Views: 10017

Re: One of my other hobbies

That is just pretty darned "cool" !! I guess showing my age. No one uses cool anymore. Be kinda like saying "Groovy" :lol:

Gene
by GeneMO
Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Remington 572 question.
Replies: 10
Views: 6481

Re: Remington 572 question.

I don’t have a 572, but I do have a Win model 61, which may be similar so depending on your question, I may be able to help. You may also want to check out this site from a company I have dealt with in the past, who sells reprints of old gun manuals—owners manuals and more detailed technical manual...
by GeneMO
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:05 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Remington 572 question.
Replies: 10
Views: 6481

Re: Remington 572 question.

Thanks guys, Thanks Steve, I will check that site out. So it seems like there is an "old" version and a "new" version of this gun. I have the version that has an aluminum alloy receiver. Something is binding and causing the gun to jam. It is a pump. There is an "action bar&q...
by GeneMO
Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Remington 572 question.
Replies: 10
Views: 6481

Re: Remington 572 question.

Let me think about it a bit. need to figure out how to describe it. It has several, confusing problems.

Thanks, Gene
by GeneMO
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Remington 572 question.
Replies: 10
Views: 6481

Remington 572 question.

Anyone on here have experience with this? It is a pump action, tube fed, .22. Fieldmaster. I am kinda stumped. If anyone has one, I will give more info. I inherited this, and my internet research shows two different guns, by the same # One blued steel reciever, but mine seems to be Aluminum. About 1...
by GeneMO
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Amigos
Replies: 4
Views: 4219

Re: Amigos

Take care. Not sure 2023 can be much worse. :evil:


Gene
by GeneMO
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:43 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Bots vs humans
Replies: 12
Views: 11255

Re: Bots vs humans

My youngest son was Navy, closest I have. I think I may be classified as a Militia.

Gene
by GeneMO
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Visits
Topic: Old times, Old group, Old people here, ( and gone)
Replies: 11
Views: 8456

Re: Old times, Old group, Old people here, ( and gone)

There was a younger guy sHan or something to that effect. I mailed him a reloading die for .22-250 I was no longer using. He died of cancer in about 2015 or 2015. Somewhere in Tennessee. Then remember the old fellow in Arizona or somewhere? He fell off a ladder cleaning his gutters or something and ...