The VGS Blog: anything and everything you’ll find useful, interesting, or just plain cool!
Vintage Spring Hunting.....Without a Scope!
After a long winter of cabin fever, there are few better ways to shake it off than to take to the woods with your trusted turkey gun…
Refurbished K2.5-1 with Post Crosshair in a Stith Streamline Mount
After sending his K2.5-1 in for an optical refurbishment and Stith Streamline install, John took it out hunting this fall on a successful hunt. Well done John, glad we could assist!
VGS Restored Weaver KV with color case hardened Weaver rings on a Winchester Pre-64 Model 70
A perfect restoration of my Weaver K variable , & the correct mounts to complete this Pre-64 Mod 70 1949 270.
Pre-64 Winchester with a Weaver K10 on a Colorado Mule Deer Hunt!
It was just as effective on this hunt as the day it was manufactured. Thanks again for you and your business!
Lyman Alaskan 2.5x - A scope To Count On For Decades
If I have a problem with the scope now, it is deciding where to take it.
Steel Tubed Weaver Scopes Provide Functional Reliability for Arctic Conditions
He and other members of his village prefer the old Weaver scopes for their bullet-proof reliability and durability in an extremely harsh environment.
2019 New Year’s Resolution, Grandpa Albert’s 99
After he shot his toe off due to the misfire of the 30.40 Krag, he promptly sold it and purchased a Savage 99F.
Vintage Hunting Conclusion
The rest of the day we were spoiled with constant small groups of ducks looking for a new place to set down.
Vintage Hunting Part II
Today though, on my 50th Birthday, I was hunting with my son using an old vintage build in the same area where I learned to hunt as a kid.
Vintage Hunting Part I
I was going to have to climb out of my tree and belly crawl past 30 other deer and 100 turkeys that had congregated before going to roost. That’s when my hunt really got vintage…
Dad's First Deer, Mom's First Deer, My First Deer. Breathing New Life Into a Family Heirloom
For a family heirloom with hundreds of fond memories built into its huge sentimental value you might want to keep that scratch in the stock that you made while crawling through the plum thickets to retrieve your first buck.