I know how everybody likes a feel good story so here’s mine. My wife has been doing a fair bit of genealogy and discovered her family had lived in a town about 50 miles away. We have made about 4 visits to the town, cleaned and photographed family headstones and ate lunch at the only tavern in town. Turns out one old timer knew my wife’s grandmother. Story goes that she had bought a Winchester .30-30, used it for a few years then sold it to the old timer we were talking with! On the trip home my wife commented a few times about how cool it would be to have grandma’s rifle. A few months have passed and her birthday is in 2 days and I have made many, many phone calls. Yes you guessed it, I was able to obtain the .30-30 from the old timer’s son in law just the other day, just in time to wrap it up for her birthday. The serial number dates it to around 1946, Winchester lost a few years worth of records during WW2 so that’s the closest I can come up with. I think it’s gonna be a good birthday Thursday.
