Takes broken rifle on an out of state hunt.
Awesome.
That reminds me of a guy that I met on an African hunt. He continually talked about his 600 yard rifles that he had back home and used when he went "our west" on deer and elk hunts, but on this $20K leopard hunt that he bought he chose to use the Outfitter's camp rifle.
The outfitter had two camp rifles. A .30-06 and a .375 H&H. Turned out that the .375 had a loose scope and that a recently fired camp staff person had left with all of the outfitter's tools.
I had my AA Fancy walnut custom stocked .300 Weatherby that I had put 80 hours in finishing and checkering with me. The guy was also after a sable antelope and he wasn't happy using the camp .30-06. This other hunter winned enough that I agreed that he could use my rifle by the truck if we saw a good sable.
His first day out we saw a small bunch of sable with a good bull in it, so I gave him my Weatherby. By the time we got off of the truck, the sable moved into the brush and we followed them. I was in line behind him and I winched every time I saw this other hunter use my rifle to push the thornbush aside. We never caught up to the sable, and when we got back to the truck he gave me back my rifle with a shell in the chamber and the safety off.
The next morning when we were getting into the truck, one of the trackers asked if he should put the outfitter's .30-06 in the truck. This other hunter asked "Why?" and I simply said "So you will have a rifle to shoot." He didn't say much to me the rest of the week.
Oh, and not that it had anything to do with my rifle, but that was his 3rd leopard hunt that he only went home with tag soup.
