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Ep. 276 | Slingin’ Rik’s Winchester Model 64 Deluxe — “The Deer Rifle”

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When Vortex’s Erik Barber told us he had a Winchester Model 64 Deluxe handed down from his great grandfather, we had to see it. Then we had to talk about it. Deemed “The Deer Rifle,” this lever gun is about as cool as it gets. Mark Boardman, a very jealous Ryan Muckenhirn, and Slingin’ Rik himself chat about the model and the story behind it. Sign up now for a chance to win an optics and apparel shopping spree valued at $5,500. As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation™ podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vorotex Nation Podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

0:09.0

lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

0:18.0

Alright what is up everybody got a fun one today going back in time a little bit to

0:23.6

talk about sling and ricks model 64 deluxe. Now if you're watching on YouTube you can

0:31.6

see it on the table here right if you can if you can hold that up so the viewers can

0:35.9

see this fine fine right I wore my nice jeans today to talk about this I noticed that

0:41.4

I thank you for noticing this thing is awesome really really cool gun tons of great history

0:49.4

Ryan regale us with you know actually Rick I want to hear before we get into the nuts

0:54.1

and bolts of the things what's what's your story behind this gun what's your family

0:57.7

story behind this gun so I really first started noticing this thing when I was about

1:03.9

probably eight years old so that would have been late 90s and that would have been you

1:11.1

know just family deer camp northern Wisconsin and that was it was my grandpa's rifle so he

1:17.8

was totalling this around like this was his deer gun yep yep and you know my early days

1:23.0

of deer hunting were in my you know my family deer camp which was my dad my grandpa occasionally

1:31.2

I'd have an uncle and then it would be myself so it was a small group over the years you

1:35.5

know my my uncles kind of got out of hunting my dad tells all stories from like the 80s

1:42.0

the heyday the heyday yeah when when you know he and my my uncles were you know all probably

1:48.7

between 18 and 25 years old you know when they would all hunt together and over the years my

1:54.6

uncles kind of dropped out my dad stayed into hunting and my grandpa stayed stayed into it and this

2:00.3

was his rifle so my early memories of it are like I said from like the the late 90s seeing this

2:06.5

thing in camp always told it by my my grandpa and you know for me like a lever gun was just what

2:14.8

people hunted with because when I you know that was I was watching like hunting media was TNN

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