kaolinwasher
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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OphKeZWNsk[/video][size=large]This time out i found evidence of the 1892 winchester 2520 and hear is what i found on it it was popular from 1892 to 1930 when the 22 hornet came out (The .25-20 was the most popular and widely used varmint hunting round prior to the introduction of the .22 Hornet and .218 Bee. The round has also been widely used on small game such as turkey due to the bullet round causing less damage for more salvageable meat. This made it a favorite rifle for farmers, trappers, and small game hunters for decades. - See more at: http://gundata.org/cartridge/19/.25-20-winchester/#sthash.AqpIAxYJ.dpuf I can Imagine that junior, made request to his paw, . Dad I would like that new gun and paw said if you split two cords of fire wood and stack it , and shovel out the barn , into the manure spreader and clean and water the chickens, and hall water for mom so she can do the landry and give baths, and feed the chickens and collect the eggs, and shovel out the ashes from the wood stove and weed he garden and help mom do the canning why then we will take a trip to princeton , and go to the hardware and pick up the rifle for you . so the hole time he was doing his chores he thought about that rifle, and the days went by really fast . Then Dad said common son we are going to princeton today .junior was exited finally they would go to get the Gun , as they went down the long dirt road to princeton they passed many a farm dad telling his hunting stores to his son. soon they where at princeton, it was a growing town that supplied the loggers up in mil acs county MN -- I will take that one == ohh the 1892 winchester == yes . Thats a popular rifle they say its one of the best varment guns to come around in a long time. size] finally they got home and unloaded the sacs of flour and shugar and oats and the rifle thats sat nestled a mist the sacs, he set up some cans and dad helped him site it in . the next morning he hurried out to the woods early . the woods was quite and just a little fog up in the tree a gray squrill he took his 1st shot . and missed bark sifted down thru the branches . the squirrel ran across the tree tops and finally stopped . he took aim and missed agine, it hid on the other side of the tree, he slowly moved and it came into his sites , He braced against a tree and pop down it came . his 1st varment , and taking it home they ate it for dinner , and it was good with the mashed potatoes and gravy , and from that time many more animals would he bring home to feed the family , and he became an excellent shot but he had to put the gun away he was going off the WW2 but by now he was one of the best marks men in his company and he made it thru and came back home , where it not for that gun preparing him he may not have made it , as he took down the enemy as an ox likes up grass . and this may have been what happened,
I once had the pleasure of talking to an old Swede who lived in Grygla MN his whole life...said back in the 30's, there were no raccoons or fox or much of anything around up there except skunks and weasels (ermine)...said times were very tough and every man and boy were out hunting and trapping whatever moved...said they got good money for a skunk, which is a remarkably wonderful fur as far as furs go, and in high demand at that time, just tough to deal with on account of the smell, once a person catches a skunks in October, he smells that way until April. Said he never saw a raccoon until the mid 60's when for some reason they moved north evidently following the farmers changing growing habits as corn became a more common crop. I caught some monstrous raccoon just south of Grygla in the Fosston, Bagley area.