My Kinda Swap: Knife For .30-30 Trapper

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:31 pm

I'm doin' the happy dance, this aftenoon - fer sure !

I took some trading stock with me, to look closer at a 97% late-70's Winchester 94 Trapper .30-30, I spotted late Saturday as a local gunshop was closing for the holiday weekend. It has a Lyman peep & XS front, with the issue sights stored in the Lyman's box. Very pristine, except for a slight freckling the size of a dime in the blue above the loading gate.
No safety, no rebounding hammer, no sling swivels, etc.

I took a Randall knife, an old .22LR/.410 Savage 24, and a .22LR Nylon 66 with me - but I knew the shop owner liked knives.

Well - The guns never saw the light of day, but the Randall was a straight-up swap.

So, I'm doin' the happy dance, and I'll pick the gun up in a few days - as soon as my state paperwork clears.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:37 pm

I dunno.... a genuine Randall fer a crummy Winchester 94 trapper?

Yep, I'd be doin' the happy dance also! Congrats!

salvo · Post by **salvo** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:48 pm

Congrats Pete44ru!
I traded a Busse Badger Attack knife for my Winchester Model 64, I had to kick in $200.00 though.
The way knives appreciate these days, I am not sure who ends up best in the end? But to me there is no comparison.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:49 pm

Yep, Thanks - That particular Randall model's going for over $700 now, but (since I got it NIB in a "deal" seven or eight years ago) I only had a little over a deuce in it.

BlaineCGarverakaTubbyTuba · Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:48 pm

You're happy, so I'm happy

......

I think I'd have sold the knife for what it was worth and gotten 3 rifles.....

handirifle · Post by **handirifle** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:51 pm

well if you decide you want a knife again, I'll take that crummy Win off your hands for the plastic handled case knife in my pocket.

,
but no pressure, think on it for a day or two.

Scott64A · Post by **Scott64A** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:36 pm

*In my best Maine accent:*

"But you can't shoot a knife..."

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:41 pm

Scott, that reminds me of an old Western flick - I think it might have been The Comancheros - where a fella with a knife in a hip sheath faced off against some pistolero, and kilt him daid !

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:20 pm

Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight."

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:29 pm

Scott, that reminds me of an old Western flick - I think it might have been The Comancheros - where a fella with a knife in a hip sheath faced off against some pistolero, and kilt him daid ! Smile

Pete44ru, it wasn't the Comancheros, I just watched that last night.

Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight." Razz

I'm not trained in hand to hand, or any type of combat, but the one thing I've learned from common sense is; if you want to stay alive and in one piece, do not let a person with a knife get near you.

Joe

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:34 pm

Pete back in '70 during hand 2 hand training & knife tactics one of the other wannabes made that quip about "don't bring a knife to a gunfighht." To which our instructor sad, "You do this right and there won't BE a gunfight." Razz
I'm not trained in hand to hand, or any type of combat, but the one thing I've learned from common sense is; if you want to stay alive and in one piece, do not let a person with a knife get near you.

Joe

IIRC, inside 7 ft, the knife is faster. Statistically speaking.

WCF3030 · Post by **WCF3030** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:13 pm

Nice trade.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:19 pm

I don't know much about those knives, but a knife for a rifle sounds like a no brainer to me. Congratulations.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:38 pm

Griff your definitely right about a knife faster than a firearm at seven feet.

In law enforcement we're taught that seven yards and closer a person with a knife or other type weapon will, nine out of 10 times, hit you or stick you before you can clear leather and get a fatal shot off.

Nothing to mess with. And that's with people that hadn't had any formal knife training. A person who knows how to use a knife will slice and dice a person so fast and fatal in mere nano seconds that the shows over before the victim knows he's even been stuck or sliced.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:28 pm

Congrats Pete! Post some pictures when you can!!!

Poohgyrr · Post by **Poohgyrr** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:48 pm

Congrats!

kirkwood · Post by **kirkwood** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:15 am

Pete44ru wrote:Scott, that reminds me of an old Western flick - I think it might have been The Comancheros - where a fella with a knife in a hip sheath faced off against some pistolero, and kilt him daid !

You might be thinking of The Magnificent Seven. Early in the movie that scene takes place.

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:46 am

I think you're both keerect (Joe & kirkwood). That's what's so great about getting older - I meet so many new people & learn new things, that I forgot, every day !

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:19 pm

The movie was "The Magnificent Seven", and the character was played by James Coburn, IIRC.

- Tristan

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:16 am

For those of you, who missed the pics on the old site - This is my new Randall Model 25 knife:

SJPrice · Post by **SJPrice** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:02 am

Pete44ru wrote:For those of you, who missed the pics on the old site - This is my new Randall Model 25 knife:

If you cut off some barrel and most of the buttstock, you will have a Josh "RANDALL"

Sorry, I could not resist.

WCF3030 · Post by **WCF3030** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:06 am

For those of you, who missed the pics on the old site - This is my new Randall Model 25 knife:

I'm no expert but....