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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
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Just two days ago. Two S&W consignment guns in very good condition and very fairly priced, a 4" M581 and a M58. Tempted to go back...
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Condition is everything.
Have passed on many POS examples of guns I have wanted over the years.
People asking prices of 95% condition on 50 60% condition guns.
Fuuuuuk you......
Sit on it till a rube comes along for you.
Part of the game is the ability to pass on something.
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Campfire Ranger
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A really nice Remington model 7 rolling block chambered for the 25/20 single shot at Dixie Gunworks in about 1978. I think they wanted $1000 for it which was a big chunk of change but we had a two year old and you know how that goes……
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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I looked for years for a decent .250 Savage. Finally saw a Ruger 77 NIB at the Big Reno Show but thought the guy wanted $50 too much. Passed.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. A few months ago Friend of a friend owns a shop. Was in the neighborhood so swung in to look. .250 in a 77 ultralight. Don’t need anymore deer sized rifles. Didn’t look at the price. A week later decided to heck with it, would buy it no matter the price. Drive the 40 miles there, it’s not on the rack. Call my buddy’s buddy up, “yeah, it sold this morning”. Regret not grabbing a pristine Ithaca 37 in 16 guage, early 50s version. $300. Went back the next day. Gone.
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Yeah! But I’m making up for it! 😉 Yes, many in the past. That is not the case these days.
If your a leftist, whatever Donald Trump says or does, that pisses you off rest assured, I am a Happy Camper!
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Walked away from an absolutely gorgeous Dakota 76. It had the best piece of walnut I've ever seen.
The price was extremely good-- $1500.
It was in 7-08 and I was looking for a feather weight 270 so i walked...not the first stupid decision ive ever made
This one haunts me every day.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Lotsa deals passed up over the years.
One I remember was at the Riveria gun show in Vegas years ago. I had shot my wad over a couple days including 2 NIB Winchester
63.s
Started talking to a tall fella in a big top hat.... he offered a '73 Winchester in .22 Long that had been through his shop and it
was a bang up job. Customer did not want it and I could have had it for $ 1700.00.' Course I had spent several thousand $$$$.
Yeah , you guessed it it was the big guy.
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Was on the hunt for a push feed 270 featherweight for years happened upon one at the big pawn rusted to hell north of $6bills left that kept looking stumbled into a xtr featherweight finally ok shape $4bills
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Couple of years ago, LGS had a lightly used 20ga. Benelli Montefeltro in their used rack for $499! Beautiful wood, action smooth and fit like a glove. Checked my wallet and didn’t have enough so I figured I’d come back the next day and grab it. Of course it was gone. Guy behind the counter said it sold about an hour after I left the day before! Heartbreaking as I had sweet dreams that night of all the happy days we’d spend together in the upland fields! Learned a valuable lesson that day. Ask if you can do a down payment!
Every now and then I slap myself for that one!
Elk Country
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"I refuse to waste my common sense on those who have been educated beyond their intelligence"
All you need to know about Democrats is they call American citizens "Deplorables" and illegal immigrants "Dreamers"!
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Campfire Ranger
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Looked at a very nicely done FN 98 commercial-actioned rifle with double set trigger and decent quality French walnut in 358 Norma Mag at a pawn shop in a small NV farming community. It was offered to me for $500.00, and I flinched and left without it. I went back after eating lunch to buy it and started to walk into the shop as a smiling guy walked out with it. 
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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I’ve sold some that haunt me!
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Campfire Savant
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I didn’t pull the trigger on a Keith Stegall rifle quick enough for 1200.00 bucks years ago.
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Yep. Marlin 93. Case hardened receiver. 32 Special. $500. Went back 2 days later after I smartened up and it was gone...
They say everything happens for a reason.
For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
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Shiit happens I found a xtr featherweight year before last for $400 same place I bought 25 box of high brass Winchester #4 for $8 recent same place less than 6 months ago had 20 cans of h4831 I bought 1 can🤦♂️🤦♂️
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There’s been plenty but I got second chance at one. My buddy was looking for pre safety JM Marlin 444 and asked me keep an eye out because I’m on the road all day , I found one in shop an hour or so from home that was a 1980 looked like new and never even had scope mounted on it. I called him and it was a little more then he wanted to spend so I left. Somehow on the way home I convinced myself I wanted that rifle. The next day I drove all the way back and it was gone! Now fast forward a couple months and I walk in and it’s back on the rack so I’m thinking something is up and asked the owner, he said every year for Christmas he gives all the employees $500 towards any gun in the store and the gun smith that has been there 40 years picked the 444 and was paying off the balance so he could take it home when that morning another gun came in he had been after forever so he put the 444 back and I happen to walk in about 10 minutes after it hit the rack , it went home with me this time .
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Ya.... oh this is a good one.....
My god parent died.... I always called him Uncle Bob.... super guy, super outdoors guy, loved fishing and hunting big game... nice service. Funny thing, at Uncle Bob's service.... the pastor kept saying "Robert" this and "Robert" that.... It was the first time I ever herd him referred to by the name his mother gave him.... which was Robert.
After chat with the family.... no hurry to get back to the office... I stopped buy Scheels.... walked thru looking for any deals on cammo or optics....
I walk past the gun section.... long wall full of rifles of every size and shape.... I just glanced... as I was not needing any more guns.
One piece, about 3/4 way down had a yellow tag on it.... The only yellow tag on the whole rack.... Ok, Ok.... I go look. I have too...
Here it was a bolt gun.... really good wood. I mean really nice wood.... Kimber in a .257 Roberts marked down to $850
I am still kicking myself for walking out without that gun. I had the money...
RIP Uncle Bob....
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Well... we have come to the point.... where... the parasites are killing the host. It's only a matter of time now.
They only win.... when they cheat.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I kinda did that today, but then I thought..."What am I REALLY do with a Sendero in .17 Remington?"
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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A Dakota model 10. 7x57. $1400, I walked in w/ half of that. LGS owner was a friend of a friend, would have taken payments. I had young kids at home- couldn’t pull it off. Instead he sold me a model 70 Classic Featherweight, 270, w/ a Leupold 2x7. Still have it as my primary rifle.
Most of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout steams and above the hills
The high blue windless skies
Now he will be part of them, forever
- Earnest Hemingway, Idaho- 1939
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Yes .. sometimes especially in the younger days you just don't have the cash at the time
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