Picked up a new rifle for my son....

by Otony, Saturday, May 05, 2018, 22:23 (2331 days ago)

.....I was working in the shop by myself yesterday when a fellow comes in packing a rifle case. Asks me if we would be interested in buying a Husky .243 rifle. I allowed as to how we might well be interested in a Husqvarna. He insisted it wasn’t a Husqvarna, but a Husky made in Tacoma, Washington, and unzipped the case to prove it.

Out pops the cleanest Husky M-5000 I’ve ever seen, topped with a Leupold 2-7x scope in Buehler rings! And when I say clean, I mean clean as in 99%! I asked him what he wanted for it, and he said it was probably worth $400 and he would like to get $200. After a couple of deep breaths and a few moments reflection, I said I could probably do that, and handed over 200 bucks before he could change his mind. He left happy, but not as happy as I was.

The barrel is marked Tradewinds, Tacoma Washington. The rifle is an HVA, of course. When my boss came in, I told him I wanted to swap my son’s push feed Winchester 70 .243 for it and he was fine with that idea. The boy’s 70 is like new, but it is one heavy son of a gun. I’m pretty sure that without a scope it weighs about the same as the Husky with the Leupold. And the Husky is just as trim and pretty as can be.

I’ll post photos pretty soon......

Otony