Originally Posted by wyo1895
The rifle is a piece of art and I wouldn't consider shooting it or hunting with it. Things can happen. Here is an example below. 99DL, 284. I tripped over a rock covered in snow and landed on the rock with the rifle between me and it. I can't run the risk of doing damage to something as important as this rifle. I wouldn't be keeping the trust Ron Coburn extended to me.
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The lever has some really great case coloring. Now it's damaged.
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So that fact that you dropped the 284 is the bad news. The good news is now you can hunt the piss out of it.

Got to look at the glass as half full. grin

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