That story brings another one to mind...

I was a kid and saved up and my Dad and I bought a 270 Rem 700 BDL years ago - late 70's, early 80's maybe - with a 3-9x40 Leupy for $400 and a nice aluminum 2 gun case. A fellow won it in a raffle, didn't hunt and sold it cheap.

It was my first really nice rifle that was new to me. I hunted with it for years, and killed lots of critters with it, and then my Dad had a 7 Mag that was misbehaving and borrowed it from me to go on a hunt.

I never got it back, and it's his first string rifle to this day - running 130 TTSX's. He's had it for at least 15 years.

He killed this buck with it a few years back....His all time best whitetail.

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It's worth more to me the longer I don't get it back...

DJ