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Old rifles still slaying them

JG26_Irish

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Would love to acquire a new Vudoo, but that is not in the cards anytime soon. I have to make do with old worn out antiques. My two best 22's are a 62 year old Anschutz Super Match model 54 and a 88y old Winchester model 52 pre-A speedloc. Both are exceptional examples of gun makers craftsmanship. Both shoot nearly equally and both are topped with 60 yr old antique Unertl and BALVar scopes. Two or three weeks ago I won our local 50y BR fun shoot with a perfect 250/250 14x card shooting the Winchester. Last week, I took 2nd place shooting the Annie with a 249/250 9x card and beat among others a shooter who has been 5x world benchrest champion in one of the BR games and multi-time state champion. He is older now (but so am I, lol). He was also shooting a Win 52 Pre-A with an Unertl. Hmmm starting to se a pattern here. He also posted a 249/9x but I beat him on the tie breaker because he dropped his one point sooner than I did (2nd shot). It is fun to be competitive with an old beat up POS that should be in a museum. I would post pics but I can't on this PC.

BTW: Last week was open night when we can shoot any rifle. The guy who beat us was shooting a high dollar Turbo action custom unlimited rifle with stainless Shilen Ratchet bbl and a 10-50x sightron. He is a nationally ranked BR shooter in ARA and IR50/50. He went 250pts and 20x which in the weird winds at our range is amazing. Plus we used a tougher tgt since the rifles were not all sporters that night. Fun stuff.
 
That's awesome! Congrats

I can relate- my first gun was a second hand Sears Roebuck model 25 that could outshoot nearly anything it went up against. I never mounted an optic on it, but at 25 and 50 yards it shot ragged holes.
I had it out rabbit hunting and while putting out a string of shots, the action broke into pieces. Looking back, I'm lucky I didnt get hurt.
 
Here is what my Winchester 52c does with midgrade ammo at 50 yards
 

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JG26_Irish, great job shooting a 250. I have never shot a 250 on the IR50/50 targets.

I'm with ya'll on the older rifles. Here are a few of mine.

Winchester 52 Pre A

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Winchester 52D

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Walther Sportmodell

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Mauser ES340B

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MAS 45 with factory gloss blue finish.

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MAS 45 with traditional factory parkerized finish.

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Marlin 39A Golden Mountie, near perfect condition. I do have the rear sight. The one shown is a Skinner sight and it works amazing.

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don't normally think of my favored .22lr in the fashion y'all do... never would have thought of competitions with it... just has been a great plinker and squirrel get'er… uncle gave this to me years and years ago, a Remmy 513T... had to look, it originally had peep sights but put a Leupold 5-9 on it and it is a sweet little piece for sure...
 

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The one my son is shooting is a Savage Stevens model 34, and the other one is a 1941 Winchester model 75 Target I recently acquired.

We haven't shot groups with the Savage yet, and I haven't fired the Winchester at all yet. Hopefully tomorrow ?
 

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