Post by Bill on May 4, 2011 9:42:48 GMT -5
I started out at age 4 shooting a Remington 512 with my dad after having a BB gun for a year. My sister and I and Dad would go out to my uncles and shoot on Sunday afternoons. We shot that gun so much we just plain wore it out. It would not eject shells anymore and it had a number of other problems and everyone Dad talked to said it would cost more to fix it than it would to buy another gun. So it got traded. Dad then bought a Remington 572 Pump. That proved to be one heck of an accurate gun and put many a squirrel on the table and punched many a hole in paper targets and cans. On a bet one time a friend of mine who had a Winchester semi auto .22 of which model I no longer remember and who bragged about how fast it would fire joined me in a contest to see who could empty out their respective guns the fastest. He bet me a buck if I remember right that he could shoot 10 rounds out of his gun faster than I could from my pump. I beat him by 3 rounds with his dad watching. Even shocked his dad.
About 20 years ago I acquired a Rem 572 and kept it for a short period of time and ended up trading it for a saddle as I was getting into horses at the time and needed a saddle if I planned on ridding any at all. So I lost it to another project.
Well page forward about 10 years and I was working for the company I now work for and a man that collected Remington .22's came in and wanted to sell his collection which amounted to about 100 .22's of all models and ages of Remington .22's. In the mix was a Remington 512 that looked like it was brand new. I bought it. I have owned it ever since and still have not fired it. Its just too nice and brings back too many memories to shoot. Its getting saved for one of my grandkids when they decide to start shooting. This takes me to just the other day. A man came in and traded a Remington 572 that was in about 95% condition and one of my people bought it. I came into work and spotted it before I had even come into my office. I didn't even slow down when my people started talking to me, just kept walking towards the gun. Picked up the gun and started looking it over. Finally turned around to see what they were talking about and noticed them all grinning. They new I had been looking for one for a long time and had set the gun where they knew I would see it coming into the office. Well the gun is now mine. Its one of the early DLX models which later they called the BDL and had the flurdelis (SP) checkering pattern and which I did not want but rather the DLX pattern. So now after all these years I again have a Remington 572 DLX like I was raised on that can also go into the safe along with the 512 the 541T and now a 572. I smile from the memories of these guns and the joy they have brought me over the years. I'm happy.
About 20 years ago I acquired a Rem 572 and kept it for a short period of time and ended up trading it for a saddle as I was getting into horses at the time and needed a saddle if I planned on ridding any at all. So I lost it to another project.
Well page forward about 10 years and I was working for the company I now work for and a man that collected Remington .22's came in and wanted to sell his collection which amounted to about 100 .22's of all models and ages of Remington .22's. In the mix was a Remington 512 that looked like it was brand new. I bought it. I have owned it ever since and still have not fired it. Its just too nice and brings back too many memories to shoot. Its getting saved for one of my grandkids when they decide to start shooting. This takes me to just the other day. A man came in and traded a Remington 572 that was in about 95% condition and one of my people bought it. I came into work and spotted it before I had even come into my office. I didn't even slow down when my people started talking to me, just kept walking towards the gun. Picked up the gun and started looking it over. Finally turned around to see what they were talking about and noticed them all grinning. They new I had been looking for one for a long time and had set the gun where they knew I would see it coming into the office. Well the gun is now mine. Its one of the early DLX models which later they called the BDL and had the flurdelis (SP) checkering pattern and which I did not want but rather the DLX pattern. So now after all these years I again have a Remington 572 DLX like I was raised on that can also go into the safe along with the 512 the 541T and now a 572. I smile from the memories of these guns and the joy they have brought me over the years. I'm happy.
Memory has gone the way of my hair. LOL.