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Rattle Can Paint job on an A-Bolt in 300 Win. Mag.

My oldest has killed a pile o' stuff with this one



pre rattle-can days!

ya!

GWB

Recently had this one follow me home. Didn't cost much more than an RAR predator ........




Browning A-Bolt Medallion, 270 WSM.



Guess I'm getting old. Had it a month or so and been too busy perforating porkers and playin' with grandkids to even scope it and take it to the range, much less hunt.

Thinking about stripping off the polyurethane finish.



Some of the Brownings' have some sweet wood under that glass.

ya!

GWB

GDub
Who's knife you got there?

That's one of Rick Menefee's earlier efforts.

A Lacewood "Boner" in D2





















Ya'


GWB

Geedub, I stand corrected ,mighty fine pics of your game and your food makes me hungry. MB

10/4

I miss-remember stuff more and more these days.

Sometimes my kids will ask me about something. Often I will reply, well I'm sure I used to know that but I must have forgotten.......







Speaking of memory lapse. I may have posted this one before. However I slept since this time yesterday so, Quien Sabe?..............

I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.

I decided to stop calling the bathroom the “John” and renamed it the “Jim”. I feel so much better saying I went to the "gym" this morning.

Old age is coming at a really bad time.

When I was a child I thought “Nap Time” was a punishment. Now, as a grownup, it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is ”I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."

I don’t have gray hair; I have "wisdom highlights"! I’m just very wise.

If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees.

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven’t met yet.

Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?

Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

At my age “Getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.

Actually I'm not complaining because I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, and I don’t have acne. Life is great.

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.

Now, I’m wondering: did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

ya!

GWB

Do you know if Rick still make that one?
Wife would like one for a kitchen knife
And I wouldn't mind one for an
everything knife. I love lacewood.

Gee, cool stuff as always!!!

I do like to cook, and eat.




Ribs for smoking and a Dale Howe (Howe Mountain Knives) Santoku. Just have to add the rub.



done!



preppin' for bacon wrapped, Italian Dressing/Teriyaki maranaded chicken thighs, stuffed with pickled Jalepenos, purple onions and cilantro.

Dale Howe Santoku and a Ken Honeycutt "Dorado" boner.



Boudin and Jalepeno Cheese Aoudad/Pork smoked links



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GWB

Gene Ingram Lambs












We eat like kings and drink like the homeless at "The Petting Zoo"




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GWB

Awful lot of critters slain, stacked and cooked for having to shoot the "WORST schit going"...……………………......

@OP, Last time I wandered around Whittaker's, the one rifle I came back to 3 times was a Browning X-Bolt 2018 Shot Show Long Range Special. Left hand, adjustable laminate stock, chambered 6.5CM with a 1:7" twist, mid-weight SS fluted barrel. Have never owned a Browning. Never owned a 6.5CM. But that one was very tempting...

From my experience many of Ricks earlier fixed blades were "one off".



For example, all of these are "Bose Pattern" but each one is just a bit different.





I do not believe these could be done today. Real ivory scales, and the inlay on the Parsons sheath is from the ear of the elephant that the Ivory came from. The knife on the right would be the closest to the same as the lacewood knife that I have seen of Rick's knives.



One will not see a ton of his knives with a hamon.

I do believe he is mainly doing "folders" these days. You might try contacting him on Instagram or Facebook.

Believe it or not, the two below are the only knives I've asked Rick to make, and it was two or three years on the folder and about 5 years on the Randall.



This repro Randall #1 Fighter in etched A2. IIRC, Bo Randall's grandson was there with Rick during part of the time it took to make this one.

and this Pacheco Folder in etched A2 with inlaid petrified walrus pecker "shield".



The rest, I was just fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.



ya!

GWB

Thanks GWB

Have also owned BL-22,



BA-22's and about a dozen High Walls and B-78's.






can't remember whether this one was an early Browning or not. If so it must have been acquired before the acrlylic finishes. As you can see the firing mechanism needs to be replaced.

but what the hey?

ya!

GWB

They're fine outside of Alaska. In AK they fall apart within a week apparently.

Gee do you ever keep and tan any of the larger scotums. Looks like they would make good muzzle loader ball bags! 😀😉😊

This will be the first!



and depending, maybe not the last!


ya!


GWB

In 2014 I used a stock 1994 Browning 1885 7mmRM to shoot a mule buck and a buck antelope.
I usually build custom guns, but this one was already so nice there was little I could do for it.
I did shim under the forward scope base on the tapered octagon Japanese barrel.

Another year I used a Browning B78 in 25-06. The conversion of large threads in the stock for the sling to small Uncle Mike sling studs threads, was tricky.

One of the ones I let slip away.........






Took me a couple of weeks to assemble the brass, dies and some 300 gr. Hornady XTP's.

Loaded some rounds using the latest Hornady manual. Loaded 5 each in .5 grain increments starting 1.5 gr. below book max with both H422 and H110.

I'd say this rifle likes it hot, as it shot the best groups .1 gr over book max for both powders.

Groups shot at 100 yds. from bench rest. Leupold 2.5 x 8 vari X III scope. Chrono @ 10 feet from muzzle.





29.5 gr and 30 gr. of H4227.








30.5 gr, 31 gr. & 31.5 gr H110


ya!

GWB