Posted December 30, 2015 1:00 pm by Comments

By Jon Wayne Taylor

Henry Repeating Rifles .30-30 (courtesy Jon Wayne Taylor for The Truth About Guns)

When I found out that RF had purchased a few lever guns, consummating his love affair with the cowboy classic, I considered it a grand sign and a symbol of his budding Texania. That’s a verbose way of saying it put a big ol’ smile on my face. I grew up with a Winchester Model 94. And by grew up I mean . . .

I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have that gun. I’m told it was rolled up in a blanket underneath my crib.

I lived way, way out in the country as a child, our driveway was measured in miles, and before I was out of elementary school I was walking around the woods hunting with my own gun and my own dog. It was heaven on earth for a boy. Pretty soon that gun was the old Winchester 94 in .30-30, and it was the only center fire rifle I would own for more than 20 years.

Jon Wayne Taylor's lever guns (courtesy The Truth About Guns)

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Source:: Truth About Guns

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