I was digging through the gun safe yesterday and started wondering about gun weights, so I got out the digital scale to put some numbers to my favorites.
My favorite competition gun is a Cimarron Model P. According to the scale, it comes in at just a hair under 2 lbs, 4 oz.
Then, I saw an old safe queen that hadn't seen daylight in a while. My old Winchester 94. It's light and handy and sure needs to be taken to the range. One ounce over 6 pounds.
Yeah, I need to get that old gal out to the range. Maybe we will do that next week.
2 comments:
Interesting that the 10/22 weighs in that heavy.
I have a love of the old Winchester 94. Although I have hunted white tail deer here in Michigan since I was old enough, I mostly used a shotgun. I did kill one with my dad's 30/40 Krag once.
But I have carried the Winchester a number of times in 30/30, and it just packs much more handily than the Marlin 36, a fine rifle as well.
Again the 30/30 caliber is a much overlooked round in the hunting world today, it seems. Here in Michigan's forests, there is seldom any shot that one can take with a 30.06 or a .270 or even a 7mm mag that you cannot take with the reliable 30/30. And now with the Leverevolution ammo and the nylon tips you can shoot out to around 200 yards if you are capable of it. Myself, I don't remember seeing a deer that I wanted to shoot that was too far for the 30/30, and most of the time the 12 gauge with a slug. It seems that sometimes ammo makers come out with new cartridges just to sell more and for the gun makers to make more new guns, instead of to fill a need.
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