Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Function Vs an Old Rifle Loony's Convictions

The passage about the doctors giving you their best game lent an eerie sentiment. Forgive me but, are you dying?

If buying a couple $10,000.00 rifles trips your trigger, I say go for it man. You only live once.

I wasn't quite sure where to put this OR if more than one or two might read it and understand......but, anyway, here we are.

Regardless of what a lot of younger folks think, 65 is not too old to still have dreams of owning "that one" rifle or going on hunts they've spent their life dreaming about. Supporting a family and spending most your money on the desires and needs of loved ones is indeed, how it's done, IMO.............but, the dreams live on.

That said, those times are behind me. Both my boys have families of their own and have their nose to the grindstone providing for themselves and loved ones. While they might LIKE me to pay their bills.......it's not happening. Life's lessons are great teachers. When consequences of one's actions bite them in the keister, they get "smarter". I chuckle listening to my 44 year old son's rants on "the entitled younger generation". It kinda makes me feel like maybe I did something right.

Since high school I've been teased off and on for "having rifles that cost more than my vehicle". Then, as now, I don't understand why anyone would think that is in any way a mistake. One of my biggest regrets in life is letting the wife (now gone) talk me into two new vehicles every two years, but........we're back to spending to make our loved ones happy. Oh, the hunts I could have went on!

No longer having that problem (if one wishes to view it AS a problem) it is STILL hard, after many decades of not doing so, to wrap my head around the fact that I only have MY priorities and convictions to consider when going and doing, or buying..........anything.

Living in a WAY too big home for one person thoughts have been creeping in about "down-sizing" AS LONG AS I could find something similar to where I'm at where I can step out my back porch and blast away any time I wish. With nothing but cornfield and woods within 1200 yards of me in two directions, there isn't a single reason in the world why I shouldn't just stick a "PROPER" 100 yard shooting range on this property but being old school (or just old) leaning an old sheet of plywood against a tree and tacking on a home-made target seems to be still working. Pop can bottoms and water filled gallon jugs still fit within my fun outside too. Kinda like a "You might be a redneck if.........."

The "problem" arises when thinking about, if I do this...........what priorities would I have when considering using (or not using) the funds remaining? The home, like this one, would be debt free. Sorry boys..........that's a crap-load more than my parents left me (nothing). It didn't ruin a single precious memory for me of either one. Both will get inheritance from others anyway. I don't "owe" you.........diddly. Count your blessings. In addition, of course, some would be invested for my two grandchildren, one girl 5 and one boy.....now just over a month old. If my sons' have a say, there won't BE any more either.

With no offense directed at this forum's sponsor, I am about as "old school" as a rifle loony can get. While other attributes do have merit, "walnut and blue" is a constant, for ME, when dreaming of "that perfect rifle".

I'm almost as bad when it comes to rifle scopes. I've had and liked variable scopes but they stood second to having two fixed power ones. One lower power for hunting, one 3-4 times that X for load working and summer varmints. Easier, does not NECESSARILY equate to "better" in my world. Like loading my own ammo, a little work changing scopes isn't any kind of hardship, it's simply me....putting more of ME in my rifle loony ways. Illuminated reticles ? yeah well.......hmmmm.

Your mileage may vary, thankfully. What a boring site this would be if we all had the same likes, dislikes, convictions......beliefs.

So (finally) I'm down to the crux of this post.

Price be danged. While WHAT I do with one and WHERE I go hunt may be limited by the wear and tear of old age, one or maybe a pair? of rifles like these........has merit, fulfills some life long desires.........and even makes sense when considering leaving them for my new grandson.

http://kilimanjarorifles.com/rifles_now.html

In a PERFECT world, the docs will start giving me their best game and I'd go back to work a year or two.......and stay here.

Stranger things have been known to happen. I'll still keep driving my old beat up Blazers though. Maybe I'll fix the AC though.

(Bet you're glad I don't post often now.....huh. LOL!)
Steve
[b][THAT POST EARNED AN IGNORE!/b]

My advice is don't postpone your dream hunt. You might not be up to it later.

Jack

THAT POST EARNED AN IGNORE!

Yeah, I kinda did the same thing with a couple of pool cues...