I once used a guide in Wyoming for several repeat hunts. We became good friends in the process and on one of the occasions we spent a couple days hunting coyotes after my mule deer and antelope tags were filled. He admired the half-finished Martini Cadet .22 Hornet I had brought along for that purpose. When I got home, I finished the rifle and then sent it to him as a token for his professionalism during the hunts and as a token of friendship. I figured it was the least I could do after all the effort he put into making my experiences pleasurable.


"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty