neither borrow or lend is generally my practice as well. This fall however I did loan my pre-64 .375 with .300 grn TSX that had four rounds in it out to a young man that boated his family of 5 into what I call strong grizzly country. In his boat he had it in my scabbard unzipped abit for quick use. He at some time got his boat into a sweeper which pulled his boat into the cut bank. That allowed for a deposit of dirt on the butt stock. He in short came back 5 days later and handed me my rifle and I quickly opened it and a pound or so of dirt fell out. I looked at him for a reason and so the story goes. No harm done but I quickly took it apart and cleaned it up. Hopefully he gets a real pounder down the road when he takes little ones an wife into rough country with only a aught six. His bullets were 165 grain for his rifle, should of just given him a handful of 200 grn Partitions instead.
