I reached to the back of the safe and brought out another oldie. 1936 Rem. 341P. This is a rifle I bought about 5-6 years ago that I honestly tried to talk the guy out of selling it to me. He told me the story of the rifle and his Dad bought it new in 1936 and had it all those years. I kept telling him he should keep it and had him talked into it. Then as I started to walk away he said "I will sell it for $215 OTD." That was less than he had been asking. He said if you don't want it the next guy may want it. So I took it and now I am glad I did but feel bad for the guy making the decision to sell it. This rifle is in very good shape and works great being 80 yrs. old this year. I just had to put some through it while it was out. This is one of two models Remington made with the cartridge lifter that does not mar the bullet feeding into the chamber. The other was the earlier Model 34. It feeds from the tube into the lifter that raises up with the cartridge in it and a upright positioned steel blade pushes the cartridge in the chamber with out rubbing on other parts in the action. It is something to watch it work. This is a factory peep model with a rather crude adjustment procedure on it. It is also mounted on the receiver with two holes. One is a screw and the other is the spare aperture. Small hole for target and a hunting size hole for in the woods. I shot today with the large one because I didn't feel like changing it. I shot a few bulls with CCI Standard and Norma Tac 22. Here is the rifle. Notice the military style winged safety that when on safe it blocks the peep sight hole so you know when you aim and it is blocked out the safety is on.
This shows the lifter with the cartridge in position to pushed in to the chamber
Targets from today. The target the group was low was the fouler shots and then I started trying to get it closer to the aiming point. Trial and error
While I was shooting a real trophy sized ground mole
came out of the field in to the neighbors yard along the high grass. I took a shot at about 50 or so yards. I should have took my time and held the circle in the front sight on top of it back. I hit right under its belly and I believe those little short legs were running before he came back down to the ground. My neighbor wants that burrowing rodent gone. Maybe next time.
1965-1969 - NRA Member - Henry H004, Henry H001