If I were the same age with the same amount of money as I started hunting and limited to what was available then, I'd probably still get the first rifle I ever bought - a Ruger 77 flat bolt in .284 Win with a Weaver 4x scope.

I'd also pick up a Lee Loader, several boxes of 150gr .284 Nosler Partitions and an 8 lb jug of 4350 and never use anything else.


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing -- Edmund Burke