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This time a 9x57mm. Santa Barbra Mauser action,Paul Marqart (sp?) barrel,Weaver 2.5x Scope and Redfield bases/rings. Taking it bear hunting this fall. Using a 250 gr Hawk bullet,53.0 grs of Var-Get,CCI 200 primer for 2373 fps.
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Very Nice Elks....post some feedback on that load please!
We eat organic in our house, we just have to shoot and gut it first.....
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I posses it's great grandpa here....lol
We eat organic in our house, we just have to shoot and gut it first.....
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Nice What kind of stock is that wearing?
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I was privileged to handle that rifle before you absconded with it. Congratulations! I'll bet that it shoots as good as it looks.
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Dang Elk. Really?? I'm gonna have to start looking for one!!
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I was privileged to handle that rifle before you absconded with it. Congratulations! I'll bet that it shoots as good as it looks. A pic with the previous owner and me. That is Ken Howell.
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Had a 9X57R in a german drilling once. Never should have sold it. A fine picture of a classic rifle, a fine old gun writer and a hunter with a taste for same. E
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Surely you count yourself blessed.
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I was privileged to handle that rifle before you absconded with it. Congratulations! I'll bet that it shoots as good as it looks. A pic with the previous owner and me. That is Ken Howell. Wow!!!! Color me pea-green with envy. Good score. Great Pix, two treasures right there (and I don't mean you LOL) I'd love to hear the story how you ended up with that rifle. Best, GWB
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Here is the story:
We were visiting friends and doing a little fishing. Saturday morning we stopped by Ken Howell's house to visit with him. When I walked in, he told me to go look at something in the bedroom...So I did and there was the rifle...Ken told me to pick it up...and I did. Now, my wife heard Ken Howell say that the rifle belongs to a Ken in Mesquite, but didn't say anything thinking she heard him wrong. We went back to the living room and visited. Ken told me that is was mine. I put it by the front door and visited with him. Ken kept reminding me that it was by the door and not to forget it.
This happened the day before Mother's Day.
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Once again, WOW.
Fantastic.
Superlative,
and a bunch of other gak.
Best,
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I was in shock the whole trip,just couldn't believe it.
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Sweet rifle and story, be buried with that one Ken.
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WoW! Good story! I'm waiting for Gunner to do that with his SxS .303�..
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Very nice rifle sir! I almost bought a 9X57MM from Simpsons a few years ago.
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