Found a name engraved on my recent pawn shop find rifle

"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
08/16/2015 at 13:08 • Filed to: None

I was out in the garage this morning, drifting the stock sight out of my recently acquired Winchester Model 52 rifle. My plan is to install the much nicer Lyman micrometer rear sight.

Anyway, on the bottom of the stock rear sight was engraved “R Bonar Pine Bluff AR” - the original owner perhaps? I looked around on the interwebs and I believe I’ve located his daughter. She’s 81 and still a practicing physician in Alaska. I’m going to call her office tomorrow to see if she’d like to have this engraved sight back.

DISCUSSION (7)

and 100 more > Clown Shoe Pilot
08/16/2015 at 13:13

Plot twist: that’s the name of the intended target. The gun was originally purchased to kill R Bonar.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Clown Shoe Pilot
08/16/2015 at 13:13

What kind of last name is Bonar?

Clown Shoe Pilot > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/16/2015 at 13:16

The interwebs say Scottish or Irish.

Clown Shoe Pilot > and 100 more
08/16/2015 at 13:22

If that’s true, it took a while. The rifle was manufactured in 1928 and R Bonar of Pine Bluff AR didn’t die until 1968.

Also, it’s a 22. Not really your first choice for a hired killing.

Opposite Locksmith > Clown Shoe Pilot
08/16/2015 at 13:28

Super cool. I always think about pawnshop guns when I get a lump sum

Clown Shoe Pilot > Opposite Locksmith
08/16/2015 at 13:35

I’m pretty sure this pawnshop gun is going to cost me 2x the acquisition price by the time I have it how I want it.

Opposite Locksmith > Clown Shoe Pilot
08/16/2015 at 16:12

We are car people. When has anything been cheap haha. Can't get over how much I like your car man. I thought id grow out of the fanboy ism over the past 5 years. Nope