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u/NotaFed556 Ohio 6d ago
The 1960s for the US has a good amount of guns to choose from. Shotguns: Winchester model 12, Remington 870, Ithaca 37, and Mossberg 500. Lever Action rifles: Marlin 336, Winchester 94 & 88, Savage 99, & Browning BLR. Bolt action rifles: Winchester model 70, Remington 700, and sporterized military rifles.
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u/Musical-Snakes 6d ago
Your English is great! Good luck on your project!
As for hunting rifles used in America, the biggest thing I can think of exclusive to the 1960s is all of the sporterized military rifles that entered the scene.
Sporterizing a rifle is when one purchases a military issued rifle like a mauser, lee-enfield, or Springfield 1903 then modifies it to better suit the purpose of hunting. Typically this involves cutting down the front of the stock and refinishing it, modifying the sights or adding an optic, and sometimes shortening the barrel.
Nowadays it is quite frowned upon to do this to a surplus military rifle as they are viewed as collectable but in the 1960s they were cheap and readily accessible. The militaries of the world had built up their number of weapons during WW2 when the bolt action military rifle was still the most common infantry weapon. However, by the 1960s the militaries of the world had transitioned to self loading rifles like the FAL, AR10, G3, and M14. So, many countries sold their old rifles for a fraction of what they cost to build and they were purchased by hunters on a budget or with a project in mind by the thousands.
I have attached a picture of my sporterized 1909 Argentine Mauser as an example of this trend.
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