Time for a feel-good story, or "/k/ and Cinderella's

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Fast forward about 15 years. I get a call to help someone with her wifi at home. Turns out to be the exact woman who dropped this stuff off back then.

I asked her if her father ever had a rifle, and she said "I think he did, I'd like to get rid of it." She goes out to the garage and comes back with this.

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It's a Mossberg Model 40 .22 from about 1935. Missing the buttplate and with the most rotted and mouse-eaten sling.

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Really, this is gross.

this gun b gud

>>34388427
Wonder if you can still get a butt plate for it

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Now the big question: Did I have the bolt from THIS gun?

>>34388517
Numrich is currently sold out of Model 40 stocks, and they don't seem to have a separate listing for the plate.

A universal limb-saver should work fine

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Survey says...YES!

I thought about selling this bolt on eBay so many times over the last decade but I always stopped myself because I thought maybe I'd run into that woman again.

The gun seems to cycle fine and should clean up. It's complete and undamaged other than a crack in the stock someone repaired long ago. I should be able to get or make a buttplate for it. Judging from the screws someone had a rubber pad attached at some point.

My only other .22 is a Remington 514 I found in a similar way. Had to order a bolt online that one, though.

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>>34388529

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>>34388599
Woo!

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>>34388599
I love a happy ending.

>that Mosin-tier safety mechanism.
Gotta love old rifles.

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>>34388599

I'm glad for you OP. That's nice.

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>>34388599
Bousting in a ebic tred.

>>34388735
Any wisdom godfather can share with us?

>>34388599
Awesome!

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This makes me happy.

This would be a cool story except it's kinda shit,
>Go to "church" with woman
>steel shit from her in a rummage sale
>surprised when years later she still has the rest of the shit that belongs to what was stolen

So no big deal really, churches are small groups, of people too stupid to understand how simple probability works and blame an imaginary being for their problems and gains.

>>34388599
Hug that gun.It loves you deeply

>>34389638
>blame an imaginary being for their problems and gains.

Your fedora is too tight and has cut off the circulation in your temples. Thus you sound retarded.

>>34389638
Probability?
Is that one of them gaymosexual sciences?
Are you a fag?

>>34388599
How's the bore? Neat story, though, post pics when you clean it up.

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>>34388599

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>>34389638
Ebin

>>34389638
>namefag tries to shit things up
Typical.

>steal something
>lady hands you an incomplete gun that accepts the part you took but may or may not actually be the same gun
>put it together
>it's still in tatters
Cool?

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>>34388599
beautiful

>>34388599

made my day/10

>>34388599
I'm glad something good happened.
My friend, you genuinely made me smile.
Thank you.

>>34388599
truly heartwarming, made my day

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>>34388599
God bless Anon, ya done good

>>34389638
you don't sound as smart as you think you do

>>34389693
>>34390319
It's okay, tons of children get angry when you tell them their imaginary friend isn't real.

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>>34389638
>assume its stolen while misspelling 'steal'
OP says he brought it home, whether you assume that means he paid for it or not is interpreted by the reader. I never put much credence into the whole 'athiests are less moral' concept, but your post really makes me reconsider. The mind sees what the mind wants.
>simple probability
it's actually largely improbable, and that's why so many here think it's a cool story. if someone sold the engine to their dead spouses car, it wouldn't be highly probably they still have the body and chassis sitting around more than a decade later.
>blame an imaginary being
OP didn't even praise jebus or attribute to some divinity; but good job enforcing the stereotype of atheists being cringy haters