Post by Big Joe on Jan 8, 2015 23:22:26 GMT -5
Ok, I have no idea what I am getting.... I just inherited another rifle but as of now I'm at a loss. Wife's uncle died and no one in her family other than he even owns firearms. So because I like to "mess" with guns they didn't give it to a local pawn shop but to me. As it stands her cousin lives down here and we didn't hear about anything other than he was ill. Well to make story short he came by earlier with some boxes of loading stuff his dad had in a "reloading closet" -yep from the way he described it dad built his reloading room in a hallway closet. I got it all a very old RCBS JR press - 1 set of dies (unmarked, looks custom built), an old scale and a dipper made from cut down 30-30 case and 2 lbs of IMR 3031 powder. a box of odd and end stuff. Then it gets funky.... I got about 30-35 loaded shells, about 100 or so 30-30 brass and 5 boxes on very old Seirra 200gr .358 flat nosed bullets (same as in reloads). one box is opened others are still taped shut. The cousin said he knows his dad had a bolt action rifle and as a kid he was drug out to go hunting. He is not a hunter, not a tree hugger but he doesn't like hunting. He knew I hunted and shot a lot and messed with guns so he figured on trying to keep it in the family or something like that. He didn't know where it was so he didn't bring it this trip but now we are headed up north to the funeral next week and I can pick it up then. my ? is anyone ever heard of something resembling this? A bolt action 30-30 I know of Savage 340 and Rem 788, I cant think of any other factory bolt rifles. But until I see it I am at a loss. Ant ideas?