Sharps40
Price, it's all about the price
This is Dads 1948 Mossberg 146B .22 S/L/LR. Still a tack driver, or at least in my hands, a nickles worth of accuracy.
I've been shooting it since I was about 8 and Dad gave it to me when I was 16, that makes 50 years in my ungentle hands. The only repairs in all that time were in my 20s, a stock refinish and a new firing pin and trigger....I still have 2 New Old Stock spare firing pins and triggers for it. About that time, 42 odd years ago, I took off the target iron sights, promptly lost them all and installed a Bushnell 4X scope. Trying to get that edge, catch up to an Army Expert Badge Officer (M1 Garand and M16) who would regularly, with the original iron sights on this rifle, have me pick out a particular leaf in a tree, and then, off hand, shoot it from the tree with a single shot. The scope didn't help me enough to be that good but for more than 40 years it accounted for innumerable bunnies, squirrels and birds and untold hours of fun target shooting.
So, I had a new scope laying about, looking for a home, and those 75 yard shots were getting pretty difficult as the old 4x Bushnell has slowly and surely gone dim and blurry. So, on with the 3x9x40, retap one scope mount hole that had stripped long ago and the new glass is on solid.
A quick zero at 25 yards with some fine adjustment to hit a nickle high at 50 yards (for use on game out to 75 yards) and Marlene (her name, when i got dads gun it had the initials MM carved in the stock and I eventually removed them in a refinish. Miss. Marlene's last name is redacted to protect her privacy but as I came to understand, it was love at first sight, Miss Marlene evidently toted about the finest Flotation Gear ever seen on South Potomac Street....but that's another story.)
In any event, we can still cover 50 yard groups with a nickle using about any hi velocity 40g round nose ammunition.
I've been shooting it since I was about 8 and Dad gave it to me when I was 16, that makes 50 years in my ungentle hands. The only repairs in all that time were in my 20s, a stock refinish and a new firing pin and trigger....I still have 2 New Old Stock spare firing pins and triggers for it. About that time, 42 odd years ago, I took off the target iron sights, promptly lost them all and installed a Bushnell 4X scope. Trying to get that edge, catch up to an Army Expert Badge Officer (M1 Garand and M16) who would regularly, with the original iron sights on this rifle, have me pick out a particular leaf in a tree, and then, off hand, shoot it from the tree with a single shot. The scope didn't help me enough to be that good but for more than 40 years it accounted for innumerable bunnies, squirrels and birds and untold hours of fun target shooting.
So, I had a new scope laying about, looking for a home, and those 75 yard shots were getting pretty difficult as the old 4x Bushnell has slowly and surely gone dim and blurry. So, on with the 3x9x40, retap one scope mount hole that had stripped long ago and the new glass is on solid.
A quick zero at 25 yards with some fine adjustment to hit a nickle high at 50 yards (for use on game out to 75 yards) and Marlene (her name, when i got dads gun it had the initials MM carved in the stock and I eventually removed them in a refinish. Miss. Marlene's last name is redacted to protect her privacy but as I came to understand, it was love at first sight, Miss Marlene evidently toted about the finest Flotation Gear ever seen on South Potomac Street....but that's another story.)
In any event, we can still cover 50 yard groups with a nickle using about any hi velocity 40g round nose ammunition.
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