Hopelessly old skool, but I bought a nicely sporterized Mauser 8mm-06 from my cousin in McGrath in 1969, got a big coffee can full of Hodgdon surplus 4831, a custom Belding and Mull handloader , and a bunch of old Hornady 220 gr spire point bullets for the grand sum of 150 bucks. It did everything well, mice to moose. I traveled constantly, the rifle got borrowed by everybody in the village since I didn't take it with me on jobs. The original Lyman 4x got killed in a boat wreck and the borrower put a new Leupold 4x on it. I got 20 offers to buy it, but I kept it to this day, but it's not needed down here, more's the pity. Nobody would go looking for an 8mm-06, but if you had one, it's a workhorse with the 220.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
