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| Above, yours truly at home with the Winchester 94. |
My great-grandparents in Nebraska owned farm property (corn was the crop). My great-grandfather was the town doctor, so he didn't do any farming personally, he just bought the land as an investment and that tenants farm it.
I image those tenants had firearms at the ready if need be. What firearms in particular I couldn't tell you.
But there are some rifles that were standard equipment on working farms. The Avid Outdoorsman posted an article featuring 20 of them.
They begin with:
Before “vintage” was a sales pitch, a farm rifle was just another tool leaning in the corner. It rode in a truck rack, got dusted with chaff, and lived through rain you didn’t plan on. The job was simple: keep coyotes honest, put down a sick calf when you had to, thin out groundhogs, and maybe fill a freezer if the season lined up with the work.
Most of these rifles weren’t babied. They were used hard because they were trusted. And now, the same guns that wore wire-brush bluing and tractor-seat scratches are sitting behind glass with price tags that make a guy say, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Here are 20 rifles that used to be standard farm equipment—back when nobody cared what year they were made.
To read more, go here.
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