Reminds me of the time when I was working in a gun shop in Las Vegas, New Mexico. An old gentleman of Spanish extraction came in one day with a 30/30 Model 1894 RIFLE (the type with a 26" octagon barrel) to "have it sighted in". The stock looked like it was carved by hand out of a cedar fence post, and perhaps it was! Looking down into the barrel was similar to looking into the entrance to the Carlsbad Caverns. Nothing butblack hole, not a land or groove visible. I asked him when was the last time he'd cleaned it. He told me "it wasgrandpa's rifle. I think he cleaned it a time or two!" The muzzle would admit a .30/30 bullet all the way to the neck of the cartridge case! If you grasped the rifle around the receiver and shook it, the barrel would flap up and down several inches due to loose barrel threads. The thing would have bneendefinitely dangerous to shoot!!

I informed the old guy that the rifle was dangerous! Hethen told me that he'd killed a deer at 700 yards with it the previous deer season!! I said, "if you could hit a deer with it last year at 700 yards, WHY does it need to be sighted in again??

I offered to give him $25.00off the price of a new M94 carbine on trade, but he just wanted his old gun! He bought a box oif .30/30 ammo and left!