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From: auspex!bae@uunet.UU.NET (Brian Ehrmantraut)
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Subject: Winchester '94 (was Re: Long gun for rural property)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 20:12:18 GMT
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# In article <35662@mimsy.umd.edu> smosjc!joseph@uunet.uu.net writes:
# The next day at the gunsmith's, I was explaining how I was a wimp and
# needed a recoil pad install. He assured me it wasn't just me and said
# he didn't know why the 94 doesn't come stock with one.

	My '94 in .44 Magnum was probably the most hard-kicking gun I owned,
more so even than my .375 H&H Mag., or my little .308 carbine.  The thing
either put big bruises on my shoulder or managed to relocate my thumb well up
my nose...

	Now it's quite tame, though - the problem was that the stock was 
several inches too short for me.  Addition of a large extender/recoil pad
has reduced the need for blood transfusions when I fire it.

	The stock sights were also miserable, so I replaced them with a Lyman
peep sight, which works quite well.  Before this, the gun was off the paper
at 25 yards.

	Quality control...

-- 
		Brian A. Ehrmantraut

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