lightened Neidner steel butt plate. When Phil delivered the gun to
Homer they immediately took it out to the range. The 90-grain hollow-point bullets that Homer made shot well from the six-pound rifle. But Homer wanted a little more bullet weight and tried the 100-grain Sierra spitzers. The gun loved them and with 36 grains of DuPont 4064 would shoot three shots into an inch or under all day long, as long as you let it cool between groups. I know that Edith hunted with
the little rifle for many years but I’m not certain how many, if any, deer that she had shot with it. I do know that she loved the little gun and the work- manship that had gone into building it. Back in the late 1960s I got into the competitive bench rest game and with rifles and bullets that Homer made went on to win national championships in the varmint class. But my true love always was hunting and every time talk turned to hunting, the little rifle was brought out and admired by all. Edith loved to show it to my wife, Beverly, who was just getting started in hunting with me. But it came as quite a surprise when Homer phoned one day and said that Edith wanted me to have her varmint rifle and Beverly would get her little deer rifle. The varmint gun was a 219 Donaldson Wasp that Edith let me shoot when I won the three gun varmint championship at Johnstown in 1969. We both were excited about the
gifts and Beverly couldn’t wait for deer season to roll around that year. We had moved into the country that summer and I built a bench on the back porch with a 400-yard shooting range. That fall Beverly started to shoot the little rifle and felt comfortable out to 200 yards. She had never shot a deer up until then but was eager to go. The first couple of days were mis-
erable with cold and rain. Then on the third day it seemed the weather would clear but I had to work in the morning. Beverly said she would go out into the woods at the end of our field and hunt there and meet me at around noon at the house. The little rifle held three cartridges
– one in the chamber and two in the blind magazine – so she normally took only three cartridges with her. That morning I laid out her three cartridges and her rifle by the side door.
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