Of course he is 100% right, and actually mirros the way I now feel. The flip side two that argument is it has taken me probably 30 rifles over the years to realize that there is no magic combination but a lot of perfectly good combinations that one could choose from..
The second argument is like many I spent many years confined by job and family obligations and budget. This contributes in two ways. I couldn't afford to buy the rifle of a lifetime or so I thought for much of my life and second being limited in my actual hunting opportunities as described I bought stuff to fuel my dreams of the hunts I would never go on.
I told my buddy the other day that when we first met I had a 16 ga 870 and a remington 788 in 6mm. That's all I could afford at the time and I have never shot anything that those two guns wouldn't have handled.
