Thread: Value of BRNO model 1 22lr??

my own experience with a model on e was on the coast 30+yrs ago.
basically the person who owned it was a very enthusiastic owner /hobby gunsmith. he got the bloody thing after doing the welding on a local cockies new cowshed- in leiu of folding stuff and realising what the cockie had standing in the kitchen corner but minus trigger -it was payment for the job.this bloke is as cunning as a shithouse rat -in fact he may well have been what shit house rats were modeled on!
The ORIGINAL BRNO blueprints were sourced(how i dont fuckin know)and he built his own trigger group &installed it. we had a mob of .22 users and in practise for a .22 competition shoot (military at that) A few sidebets were laid.In those days i was a smoker so laid the odds - Five cigarette filters end on 25m-a jug on each.
He was allowed a sighter ,but no its business -5 jugs later for the mob ,i learnt my lesson.
now this is the mid 1970s- he won that battalion .22 shoot.incidentally that rifle was topped with a 4x28bentley scope-fine crosshair and he was fuckin lethal on anything .
i dont gild the lily -the bloke cost me my marriage, but iwas present when many a bunny met his maker ,and got a personal invite to clean the body fluids out of the back of a honda civic after he bought home an 8pt red stag whose throat had been slit with a .22 round.
hmmmmm- dopey stag got caught grazing a swede paddock after retreating from the choppers working his home turf.not good grazing westcoast swede paddock when 2legged arseholes are chasing possums in next paddock with bright light.
I have a guts like a concrete mixer ,but a the end of that even i'd had enough so Imade a deposit in a hokitika gutter ,that would probalby halve the national debt!!!I kid you fuckin not It stunk to high heaven.
Before i left the coast -I laid out $600.00 in cold hard cash on a table to buy that rifle - apparently it wouldnt buy the engraving!!!!!. to my knowledge it certainly still sits in the owners gunsafe.
.For those who may have an inkling(R93) the bloke was involved in the big screen version of Stan Graham Kowhitirangi1941 entitled "Bad Blood"- that was a bloody travesty too -two bloody aussies played the lead roles _Jack Thompson(Breaker Morant ,The Man from Snowy River) as Stan Graham and Carol Burns(Prisoner) as his wife.
if you ever get a chance to see it -its a chillingly accurate portrayalof a mans descent into madness!!!