Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Originally Posted by irfubar
How about owning an elephant rifle, yet you never plan to hunt elephants..... is that loony?



It's a matter of semantics. If you have a "squirrel rifle" but shoot other things with it, is it only a squirrel rifle?

Case in point is my truck gun.

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We have few elephants in the neighborhood, but many trucks. It will stop a truck, large lizards, buffalo and even foreign hatchbacks, no question about that. Trucks are "Big Game".



I used to shoot gophers here on Gopher Broke Farm with my 416 Rigby with 350 gr Speer varmint bullets, but as I got older and more recoil conscious I sold the Rigby and scaled back to my FN/Sako 375 Wby and 270gr gopher/coyote pills. That's virtually perfectly hand basket weave checkering, not everyone's cup of tea, but up close look and it becomes pretty nice. It has a VX III 2.5-8 on it now and one standing/one folding.

I no longer have a use for it, but the Loony in me won't let go.


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