I was looking for something else this morning and ran across this sales receipt from years ago.
I bought a Savage M1914 .22 pump with octagonal barrel from Clark's Gun Shop up in Warrenton, VA. The receipt is dated 11-13-78.
Cost was $69.95 with $ 2.80 tax.
Got it home and there was a defect of some kind in the chamber. It kept splitting the .22 brass when you'd shoot it. Sometimes the empty would hang up and you'd have to use a cleaning rod to knock it out of the barrel/chamber.
As luck would have it (my wife keeps telling me I have a guardian angel = I'm lucky, sometimes) about two weeks later a gun shop up in Minnesota or Wisconsin had an ad in Shotgun News for a brand new Savage M1914 .22 for about $15 plus shipping. Took the old one off with a big crescent wrench, put some leather on the new barrel and screwed it in. Transferred the sights, magazine tube/parts to the new barrel and sighted it in. Still shot great the last time I shot it (30 plus years ago).
I really need to have another old gun day, or two, at the range with the boys so they can see what all those old rifles/handguns shoot like compared to their new stuff.
