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To: carriage_hill
I hope you can profit by their sale, and get them in appreciative hands as well. I am truly sorry for your creeping diability. May it take a halt and nt proceed. I thank God that I am pstill physically able at 83 to get up and werk safely on a 24 ft ladder; to haul it arounf and set it up without help. Of course I cannot run a hundred-yard dash, but I can shoot pretty well with accuracy. My glasses mave so little corrective benefit that I can see the front sight and targets well enough without them to get good scores.

May you have some pleasant days thumbing through your old American Rifleman magazines. Only once have I ever had to sell firearms to get some cash. That was in the early 1970s when I had to sell my Spingfield 1903A3 rifle and a Crosman .22 CO2 and its holster to get some money for food and a lantern to take my boys out to camp and fish. I eas only able to get $25 for the guns and holster. But we had enough then to camp for a week -- a great time with then that I will never forget. But I still have a hard time forgiving the stinginess of the sports shop owner. And that was 50 years ago.

Vaya con dios, amigo!

68 posted on 09/25/2020 11:44:45 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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I sold them to family and friends, and got good money for them, but most important, into appreciative hands. I kept the 2 (one SBR) Class III AR-15s, suppressors, and daily-carry Kimber 1911 ‘Target Eclipse II’ .45cal ACP.

2008 Barrett M82A1 .50cal w/ NightForce Scope.
2009 Beowulf AR-50 (Alexander Arms) .50cal w/ RGR C1P1 Scope.
2003 Bushmaster AR-10 .308cal w/ Trijicon ACOG 4x32 Scope.
Remy 1184 12ga Police Tactical Semi-Auto w/ EoTech Red Dot.
Remy 870 Pump w/ EoTech Red Dot.
2009 Henry ‘Big Boy’ Lever Action .357mag, w/ RGR Scope
1975 Colt Trooper MKIII Revolver 6” .357mag.
2012 Kimber ‘TLE II SWAT Model’ 1911 .45cal ACP, w/ CT Laser Grips.
1959 Winchester Lever Action .32cal Special, Iron Sights.


69 posted on 09/25/2020 12:35:53 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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