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Battle-sight boar: Hunting non-sporter style with a vintage Mauser K98k.
In my day most shooters started with military surplus rifles. For thousands of early Baby Boomers like me, the hot ticket was a 1903 Springfield. A good one cost forty bucks in 1960. In those innocent days before the 1968 Gun Control Act magazines like this carried full-page ads from which we could order a wonderful array of Springfields, Enfields, Mausers, and so many more. Some of us shot them as is, but in those days sporterizing was “in,” so we restocked and ...
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