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I acquired this rifle at a auction a few years ago, It was online, the description was lousy, the price was right and I had no idea what it was other than I liked they way it looked and thought I could hang it over a bear hide I have in my office. I researched some and read what I could find, took it apart and cleaned it, it sat behind the door wafting for some time to hang it up until a couple of months ago.
A fried and I put in for a ML moose hunt every other year here in AK, its a late season hunt from Nov 1 to Dec 15. We were successful 2 years ago hunting with some TC inclines. We have nearly identical firearms, by accident. Mine shoots well, his does not. Its been a struggle getting decent groups with his gun, and we are limited to irons or red dots, no magnification.
Irons and old eyes are not a good combination for these conditions, we discovered the gun shoots quite well..... at paper. And probably would at moose if we one of us could see the rear sight in some fashion. Low light conditions at this late season and aiming at big brown globs makes for poor bullet placement. I feel like the only way to hunt "ethically" with this rife is to improve both sights or primarily the rear sight. I am looking for ideas and considering getting a Marble tang mount peep. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regarding the rifle.
I didn't measure the barrel across the flats, it is 32" in length appears to be in excellent shape, has very few markings other than what I believe is the year 1966 and a 61, which perhaps is serial number as its is etched on the trigger guard and on the bottom of the front sight.. Also 310 is cast inside the box lock. W.L. Mowrey on the barrel, nothing else and I did remove the leather forearm cover to clean and oil the leather.
Seems I read Mr. Mowrey got started in the mid 60's and judging by the 2 digit number I am assuming this is a very early example of his. If so I am somewhat surprised at the wood as I have seen many pictures of some Mowreys with beautiful curly maple.
I look forward to any replies, information, especially ideas in regards to the sights, oh, one other thing I noticed, the buttstock and receiver (for lack of better words) is not aligned with the barrel, it is actually slightly canted off to the left when looking at it from the butt end, I can only assume this was intentional for a right handed shooter.... Rather curious.
Thanks.
I acquired this rifle at a auction a few years ago, It was online, the description was lousy, the price was right and I had no idea what it was other than I liked they way it looked and thought I could hang it over a bear hide I have in my office. I researched some and read what I could find, took it apart and cleaned it, it sat behind the door wafting for some time to hang it up until a couple of months ago.
A fried and I put in for a ML moose hunt every other year here in AK, its a late season hunt from Nov 1 to Dec 15. We were successful 2 years ago hunting with some TC inclines. We have nearly identical firearms, by accident. Mine shoots well, his does not. Its been a struggle getting decent groups with his gun, and we are limited to irons or red dots, no magnification.
Irons and old eyes are not a good combination for these conditions, we discovered the gun shoots quite well..... at paper. And probably would at moose if we one of us could see the rear sight in some fashion. Low light conditions at this late season and aiming at big brown globs makes for poor bullet placement. I feel like the only way to hunt "ethically" with this rife is to improve both sights or primarily the rear sight. I am looking for ideas and considering getting a Marble tang mount peep. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regarding the rifle.
I didn't measure the barrel across the flats, it is 32" in length appears to be in excellent shape, has very few markings other than what I believe is the year 1966 and a 61, which perhaps is serial number as its is etched on the trigger guard and on the bottom of the front sight.. Also 310 is cast inside the box lock. W.L. Mowrey on the barrel, nothing else and I did remove the leather forearm cover to clean and oil the leather.
Seems I read Mr. Mowrey got started in the mid 60's and judging by the 2 digit number I am assuming this is a very early example of his. If so I am somewhat surprised at the wood as I have seen many pictures of some Mowreys with beautiful curly maple.
I look forward to any replies, information, especially ideas in regards to the sights, oh, one other thing I noticed, the buttstock and receiver (for lack of better words) is not aligned with the barrel, it is actually slightly canted off to the left when looking at it from the butt end, I can only assume this was intentional for a right handed shooter.... Rather curious.
Thanks.