Easy.
Mule Deer calls them Churners.
They read or watch hunting shows. And fall in love through the endless ads.
Especially since hunting shows are nothing but an ad.
Local guy went moose hunting with Jim Shockey.
Got a call asking if he wanted to be on the show, Bobby loves attention and immediately agreed.
Then he got the list.
Rifle, scope, ammo. Down to the round being promoted and the bullet choice in the Federal ammo. For the show's promotion, all bought at full
retail cost. No deals or compensation. (Killed a dandy moose, but was disappointed. Thought he was hunting with Shockey, never saw him)
Daughters boyfriend was interested in the 350, from TV and the guys at the LGS.
He ask me and I called it a POS. "It's made for ARs and straight wall states. We cant use ARs and arent cartridge limited."
He bought into the "effectiveness".
"Come on Nate? It is a 30-30 or 35 by another name. Fine rounds, nothing
spectacular. Whats the point in a rifle that could be a 308 or 358?"
Daughter told me he had been going to buy one.
Last week.
"What do you think of the 224 Valkyrie?"
"Same as the 350. Designed for high velocity in an AR. Good twist for
heavy bullets." No point for it in a bolt gun. 1/8 22-250 in a Tikka kills it in a bolt gun."
Daughter later tells me he had a CZ on layaway in 224.
Feel bad hammering his choices. But he better learn to not ask my opinion if he don't want it.
53 years old.
Been reading every gun thing I could get hands on since grade school.
Well remember the 30-30/35Rem are dead days.
No one hunted with them. No serious hunters anyway.
Went through the magnum craze.
Ultra Magnum craze.
Now, you get the warm moist breeze up your exit hole. Pushing all these
rounds that are lucky to equal the paper numbers of rounds considered
obsolete 35 years ago.
Limited to straight wall rounds, I might buy a 350.
