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pacecars
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Reged: 25/09/05
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Loc: Tallahassee, Florida, USA

So ugly it is pretty
20/03/20 03:12 PM

I remember sitting in front of the fire on cold winter days when I was young and looking through my favorite gun catalogs. I had the old fold out Ruger catalog with the beautiful Ruger No 1, the shiny Weatherby catalog with the MKVs and the Colt catalog with the Colt Sauer 90 with gorgeous wood and super slick bolt but my favorite one of all was the Catalog from Steyr-Daimler Puch. It has beautiful wood stocks with fancy carvings and fish scale “checkering” and deeply engraved receivers but the one rifle that was my favorite and the one I wanted more than any other gun, the one gun that I thought epitomized the perfect hunting gun was the green stocked Model M Professional in .30-06. I knew I could hunt the world with that one gun and be happy for the rest of my life (pretty smart for an 8 year old huh?). It took me a long time before I finally owned one. I first bought an MIII .270 that shot under a 1/4” repeatedly with cheap ammo but it just wasn’t the same and I sold it, I then got a MIII in .30-06 and it too was accurate but still not quite right. Next up I got a black stocked M Professional with sights in .270 but still I was not satisfied. More MIIIs followed and another M Pro with a brown stock but something was still missing. I loved the way the stock fit me especially for offhand shooting. Looking through several websites the other day I came across this ugly duckling and figured out what had been missing. That damn ugly green stock. This one feels like it may just stick around

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So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	20/03/20 03:12 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	NitroX	05/04/20 11:10 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	05/04/20 11:19 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	06/05/20 09:50 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	500Boswell	07/05/20 02:18 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	13/05/20 10:49 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	bstrick	19/05/20 12:52 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	20/05/20 05:40 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	DarylS	20/05/20 08:19 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	bstrick	21/05/20 09:43 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	21/05/20 11:04 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Rothhammer1	23/05/20 06:50 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	23/05/20 11:21 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	NitroX	29/05/20 05:17 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Rothhammer1	26/05/20 06:12 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	29/05/20 11:12 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	31/05/20 12:46 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Rule303	08/05/20 08:56 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	10/05/20 02:58 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	rpeck	10/05/20 06:35 AM
new S-M Pro	rpeck	12/05/20 01:29 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	Louis	12/05/20 01:54 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	EDELWEISS	08/06/20 10:49 PM
Re: new S-M Pro	vykkagur	13/05/20 12:38 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	rpeck	13/05/20 03:09 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	DarylS	12/05/20 07:07 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	rpeck	12/05/20 09:10 AM
Re: new S-M Pro	NitroX	12/05/20 03:03 PM
Re: new S-M Pro	Louis	12/05/20 05:23 PM
Re: new S-M Pro	rpeck	12/05/20 09:34 PM
Re: new S-M Pro	rpeck	12/05/20 02:47 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Ash	20/03/20 04:58 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Louis	20/03/20 06:26 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	500Boswell	21/03/20 08:25 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	22/03/20 01:57 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	DarylS	22/03/20 04:15 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	22/03/20 07:38 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	93x64mm	22/03/20 08:22 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	500Boswell	22/03/20 10:52 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	DarylS	23/03/20 05:33 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	23/03/20 01:28 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	DarylS	23/03/20 04:45 PM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	Yochanan	24/03/20 03:42 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	24/03/20 10:18 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	pacecars	05/04/20 09:11 AM
Re: So ugly it is pretty	yumastepside	20/03/20 06:24 PM

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