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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on January 08, 2024, 01:47:30 PM
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Been intrigued by the subject little riffle after finding one at Cabela’s recently. I was able to do a thorough inspection, bore was 95%, bluing was very good considering age! One of John Moses’s last designs!
Serial number cannot be traced by FN. Browning stopped FN in about ‘75 from producing them. Best guess based on lack of alpha character on S/N puts it circa ‘14-‘55 I’m guessing. Forearm is lighter stain and lacquered, butt stock is OG and quite nice oiled finish. No pitting anywhere.
$499 plus tax….
Found some Remington 24s as well but that FN has got me itchy…
Thoughts?
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Go with the FN. Price looks good to me...for what it is historically.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1029860260 (https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1029860260)
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Well....have you made a decision yet?
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Yeah, go with the FN. They're still being made, with production of over half a million in the last 100 years. My dad had an old Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle, and my older brother bought one too. Then my dad bought a Ruger 10/22 like my uncle and I had, because he wanted a detachable magazine to load the gun quickly while we were hunting coyotes on snowmobiles. If it's a popularity contest, the 10/22 wins with about eight million produced in the last 60 years. 16 times more guns in 60% of the time, or 133,333 per year vs. 5,000 per year. That's almost 27 to 1, but it's kind of like comparing apples to oranges. There's plenty of room in the fruit salad for both of them. ;)
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Well....have you made a decision yet?
Having some PT to fix my left shoulder and nerve in my C6-7 spine. No strength in my left arm so support for the fore stock is poopy.
Hope it’s still there if I can get this resolved. I’m seeing a neck surgeon next week to see if it may be operable which scares me just a bit…
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Any kind of spinal surgery scares the crap out of me, especially the neck. Everyone I knew that had back surgery ended up worse than before. Know we'll be praying for the best possible outcome, Timothy.
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Timothy I hope that all goes well for you.
Just for some encouragement, I know several people who have big improvements after back surgery. A couple who didn't also...but the majority (like 8 out of 10) had an improvement.
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Thanks fellas..
My lovey dovey had L5-S1 fusion twelve years ago with great results but the neck is a different animal. So far the PT is improving things and Medicare gives me unlimited visits. I’ll know more in a few days.
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Surgery is the final option, when you're desperate because nothing else worked. At least that's how I see it. Good to hear the PT helps.
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Thanks fellas..
My lovey dovey had L5-S1 fusion twelve years ago with great results but the neck is a different animal. So far the PT is improving things and Medicare gives me unlimited visits. I’ll know more in a few days.
A friend from back home just took early retirement and had neck surgery two weeks ago. It was a two day process and included taking donor bone from the pelvis. It is early, but so far so good. It will take time and patience, but hoping and praying for good results. He was an engineer with Indian Motorcycle, and is an excellent guitar player and vocalist.
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Sometimes cadaver bones are used as donors. They're generally done with their bones by then. ;)
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No surgery needed…yet!
PT for now.
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Sometimes cadaver bones are used as donors. They're generally done with their bones by then. ;)
If you are an organ donor you think about heart, lungs and kidneys. However, when I was in the funeral home I did many eye enucleations over the years. For donors that went beyond that, the common organs were seldom taken. Bones and skin were the next most harvested, after the eyes. Femurs and humerus, occasionally the pelvic arch, and large rectangular patches of skin from the back and thighs.
After the skin is cleaned and trimmed in preparation for grafting it is run through a machine that puts in little slits. During grafting the patch is stretched, and it has the appearance of expanded metal sheeting. The bone goes through a process that when completed leaves a 3/8" cube that looks like a white crouton.
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No surgery needed…yet!
PT for now.
Great news Timothy! Will continue to pray for your healing, because even though it is a long painful process, PT is always better than surgery.
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That's great Timothy. Hopefully no surgery ever!
Mike...you just gotta ruin a guy's meal...ugghhh.
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If you are an organ donor you think about heart, lungs and kidneys. However, when I was in the funeral home I did many eye enucleations over the years. For donors that went beyond that, the common organs were seldom taken. Bones and skin were the next most harvested, after the eyes. Femurs and humerus, occasionally the pelvic arch, and large rectangular patches of skin from the back and thighs.
After the skin is cleaned and trimmed in preparation for grafting it is run through a machine that puts in little slits. During grafting the patch is stretched, and it has the appearance of expanded metal sheeting. The bone goes through a process that when completed leaves a 3/8" cube that looks like a white crouton.
That's kind of a fancy way of saying you gouged out lot of eyeballs. At least you weren't doing it to living people. I knew a lot of eyes and skin were harvested, but no idea how much. I've seen a cadaver bone shaped like a short french fry and as white as white can get. No DNA or anything left but the scaffolding to grow new bone into. Pretty neat. I never thought of it that way but those skin grafts really do look like expanded metal when they stretch out. They're full of diamonds.
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I’ve been an organ donor forever and I’ve donated my body to UMASS Med School along with my wife some years back. Carry the card in my wallet.
They cover cremation costs as well.
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Mike...you just gotta ruin a guy's meal...ugghhh.
I do recall informing you of my degree in Advanced Taxidermy. You can read this and walk away. It is 25 years of my life that still dwells in my dreams at night.
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I’ve been an organ donor forever and I’ve donated my body to UMASS Med School along with my wife some years back. Carry the card in my wallet.
They cover cremation costs as well.
I don't carry an Organ Donor card. It's right on my driver's license, and I try to keep that on me any time I leave the house. I changed all personally identifying information on the picture, but didn't touch the lower right corner. I also have my blood type on my key chains, just in case it's not time to donate my organs yet. I have black to match my Yukon Denali, and gray on my Sportsman 570 SP key ring (but it's the wrong shade of gray). My older brother said, the way drive, that's a good idea. He should talk. My younger brother wiped out on his ATV and told my older brother, slow down on that curve where I just crashed. So the dumbass hopped on, and went and crashed in the same exact place, doing the same exact thing. I have a couple of OD green spare key chains to attach to a gun case or range bag if I want to.
https://condoroutdoor.com/products/condor-blood-type-key-chain
P.S. Do we know how to drift a thread, or what? :)
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Always wonder about those blood type tags. If I were a medical person would I trust those? What ER isn’t going to run a type and cross match before giving blood?
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My blood type is on record at every hospital in the area since they’re all UMASS.
My donor info is on the DL along with my gold star thingy.
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Always wonder about those blood type tags. If I were a medical person would I trust those? What ER isn’t going to run a type and cross match before giving blood?
That's one reason I've seriously thought about having my blood type tattooed on each upper forearm, on the inside, just below the joint. Not the whole Group B, Rhesus Pos., Kell Neg., CcD.ee, kk, just B+. If they have time to worry about various erythrocytes and such, they can type me.
You should always Be Positive. ;) So why do I like the gothic metal band, Type O Negative?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3aiM8K6D0
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Always wonder about those blood type tags. If I were a medical person would I trust those? What ER isn’t going to run a type and cross match before giving blood?
If I understand it correctly, in a true lack of time emergency they will use O Neg which is the universal donor blood.
That or just plasma.
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If I understand it correctly, in a true lack of time emergency they will use O Neg which is the universal donor blood.
That or just plasma.
Ed Zachary, I mean, exactly. Universal donor.