My first post here- hello everyone! Nice website with lots of good info and nice folks.
I have a Glenfield Mod 25 that was made, and received by me, in 1973. I was 12 and it was my first gun- got it on Christmas eve. Boy was I ever excited! That night I dreamed of all the deer, elk, and elephants that were sure to fall to my new "high-powered" rifle. The next day my dad took me out shooting it, and I can still feel the cold air on my face and the acrid smell of the gunpowder that I'd get a whiff of every time I worked the bolt to chamber another round. I killed a lot of predatory milk jugs and tin cans that day, and still remember the beaming pride in Dad's eye every time I'd send a can flying through the air.
Dad's gone now but the rifle, and the memories associated with it, are still mine. It still has the original 4x scope, and after countless thousands of rounds being put through it the only thing I've had to replace was the clip, lost during a cross-country move many moons ago. I've moved all over the country and it has suffered a lot of abuse, banging around and, at times, neglect. But I took it out today, cleaned it, & shot it for the first time in 23 years. It shot a 1" group (with Rem Shorts no less) at 50 yards one inch low & one inch to the right. Dialed in the old scope and she's now dead on, ready to do battle once again- just as she was on that cold Christmas morning back in '73.
I have a LOT of guns, and the Model 25 isn't the youngest, or the prettiest, or the fastest of them all, but she is, by far, my favorite.
Oh, and dpage, your rifle was made in 1977.
Happy new year to all!
I have a Glenfield Mod 25 that was made, and received by me, in 1973. I was 12 and it was my first gun- got it on Christmas eve. Boy was I ever excited! That night I dreamed of all the deer, elk, and elephants that were sure to fall to my new "high-powered" rifle. The next day my dad took me out shooting it, and I can still feel the cold air on my face and the acrid smell of the gunpowder that I'd get a whiff of every time I worked the bolt to chamber another round. I killed a lot of predatory milk jugs and tin cans that day, and still remember the beaming pride in Dad's eye every time I'd send a can flying through the air.
Dad's gone now but the rifle, and the memories associated with it, are still mine. It still has the original 4x scope, and after countless thousands of rounds being put through it the only thing I've had to replace was the clip, lost during a cross-country move many moons ago. I've moved all over the country and it has suffered a lot of abuse, banging around and, at times, neglect. But I took it out today, cleaned it, & shot it for the first time in 23 years. It shot a 1" group (with Rem Shorts no less) at 50 yards one inch low & one inch to the right. Dialed in the old scope and she's now dead on, ready to do battle once again- just as she was on that cold Christmas morning back in '73.
I have a LOT of guns, and the Model 25 isn't the youngest, or the prettiest, or the fastest of them all, but she is, by far, my favorite.
Oh, and dpage, your rifle was made in 1977.
Happy new year to all!
