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Lol he is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. He does use sarcasm but this was supposedly a historically accurate story.
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That target can't be obama, it has balls.  True That Is. Jerry
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Why is the sky blue?
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Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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Ken, How many shots? 
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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I have been eyeing a Kimber Classic 270 for a while at a nearby gun and shooting emporium. I check on it occasionally. Want to make sure nobody is putting any marks on it. Today I put it on lay away. Gay or not,it's going to be living here soon. I heard a rumor Kimber was dropping the Classic,and I didn't have one yet. If it's half the rifle my Classic Select is,Ill be tickled. 270 or not.
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Ken, How many shots? Just one. 
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I always heard that people who didn't own a 270 were gay.
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I always heard that people who didn't own a 270 were gay. That makes sense. If you aren't with the majority........ you are ODD ->->-> that's PC for lgbtq    Jerry
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Digital dan...was reading capstick not long ago and someone did shoot an elephant with a 270. Took the bullet out of the case and pushed it in backwards for sort of a solid and shot it in the forehead. Sounded like an emergency, guy had to pull the bullet with his teeth while one of his people was being confronted by the jumbo. Capstick wrote a lot from a bar stool...... Same thing I realized about Hemingway when trying to read anything but The Old Man and the Sea....
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My friend Roy calls bullchips on that. You don't wanna pizz him off. ![[Linked Image]](https://cdn.empireonline.com/jpg/80/0/0/1000/563/0/north/0/0/0/0/0/t/films/9588/images/l9S9kNYBVcfNLDVeEqirJFjn67O.jpg)
I am..........disturbed.
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Capstick's .270 and elephant story was taken directly from an old story in True Magazine.
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Ok, then maybe he was repeating the story to back up his own, I don't recall the details of how he used it...it was not a first person story of his
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I always heard that people who didn't own a 270 were gay. By “gay”,you meant “happy” ....correct! Happy you didn’t make a bad choice!
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The term started way back. Jack and Elmer were at a gun writer's convention. They both had been hitting the sauce at the dinner, and the stories were getting pretty tall. Finally Elmer could not take Jacks constant rambling about the 270 any longer. Elmer stood up and yelled at Jack, take that stupid little hat you wear and that gay rifle you always use and get the *!@K out of here. Elmer was the first to believe that the 270 is gay.
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The term started way back. Jack and Elmer were at a gun writer's convention. They both had been hitting the sauce at the dinner, and the stories were getting pretty tall. Finally Elmer could not take Jacks constant rambling about the 270 any longer. Elmer stood up and yelled at Jack, take that stupid little hat you wear and that gay rifle you always use and get the *!@K out of here. Elmer was the first to believe that the 270 is gay.
Don’t know if that’s true or not....but I’m good with that! Memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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Ken, is that the featherweight higrade model?
Beautiful rifle.
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The term started way back. Jack and Elmer were at a gun writer's convention. They both had been hitting the sauce at the dinner, and the stories were getting pretty tall. Finally Elmer could not take Jacks constant rambling about the 270 any longer. Elmer stood up and yelled at Jack, take that stupid little hat you wear and that gay rifle you always use and get the *!@K out of here. Elmer was the first to believe that the 270 is gay.
And you own and are proud of this story? The man who is supposed to have acted that way is an idol for many here? I hope the story isn't true, and I doubt it, but if it is, Elmer's lucky he wasn't spitting out teeth at some point from getting bashed in the mouth with the butt of a gay rifle by a man with a stupid little hat.
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Storys true, I heard it on the internet.
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Storys true, I heard it on the internet. Perhaps a pirated excerpt from Keith's still-unpublished book, titled, "Hell, I Was An Ass Hole!".
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