I get real attached to anything that kills deer or makes me money.
In 2004 I became afflicted with a rare movement disorder. It involved and still involves severe mussel cramps and spasms in my neck and shoulder mussels. For over 3 months I lay on my back writhing in pain. No one could diagnose it. Finally, after 3 months I began taking treatments. It took another six months for the treatments to began to work.
I was in so much pain, I thought my life was over. Because of the spasms, I could not lift up my head to walk, drive, work, and definitely...could not look through a scope. When one is in pain, they make poor decisions.
I gave my two boys their inheritance early. I split up my first shotguns and my first rifles between them. Those firearms were a gift from my Father between the ages of 12 and 16 - given to me in the 70s. They were classics.
My wife told me to slow down and give the treatments some time. I did not listen. I sold every firearm I owned except two that my Father had bought after he returned from Korea.
I now regret selling ALL of those firearms. They just don't make them that way anymore.
After two years, I finally got some relief. I have been getting deep muscle injections every 13 weeks for 16 years now. Out of those 13 weeks, I have three or four good weeks that I am functional. I endeavor to make the most of those weeks. Any day not on your back is a good day!
I bought a Rem SPS Stainless in 30-06 in 2006. There is nothing special about it...other than it will shoot anything I feed it...an shoots it well. And, I have killed a truck load of deer and hogs with it!
A 223 is about all the recoil I can handle these days. I am working with a 223 SPS Tactical. Great Shooter! I plan to hunt with it this year...but...the plain Jane 06...is not going anywhere!
I underwent three major brain surgeries last year. I told my wife that I had made arrangements with a friend to sell all of my hunting/shooting stuff if the worst should occur. She was free to marry with my blessing. Whomever she married could have anything that was mine...with one exception...he was never to touch my 3006!!
