recent gun sales

[Harry Collins]

With four grandsons I thought the guns would go to homes that would use them. I'm beginning to seriously doubt it. One wanted a rifle to hunt deer etc for his 14th birthday. I offered him a sporterized 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser with a 2X7 Leuopold. I told him I had 85 grain bullet loads at over 3,000 per second that shoot 1/2" groups all day long for groundhogs, a 129 grain bullet for deer that is sub minute of angle load as well as a 160 gr load. He wasn't the least bit impressed or excited of such prospects. He wanted a new .308 so I purchased a savage for him to use until he was 18 and then it would be his. Other guns I cherish for function and sentiment wouldn't get a second look from the boys. I am seriously thinking of thinning out a few more closets.