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I love my .50-90 Shiloh. The big guns are fun with black powder


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Never sell. Take them all with you in the end.


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Glad to see the 99 in the group. My favorites!!

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The 99 is a .300 savage and I also had a .22 HP when I was a kid but it disappeared when I was in the service.
The .444 Marlin short tube second from the top I carried when I Kayaked the Yukon river in 2000 after I retired. It kept the hunger away laugh
The .44-77 forth from the right is my favorite hunting rifle as well as the trapdoor Carbine.
The 50-2.5 and the .45-2.4 are my go to for the matches and I still use the .50-2.5 when the conditions get tough at the Quigley and the Baker MT big hill. It never let me down. The 400 rounds I carry for the .50 are empty when I go home.
All the rifles have a special place with me and I wont part with them till I go under.

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Did the same thing starting ten years back! I've got one 50/90 left with a new Badger barrel! Wish it was gone! Just could not sit at the loading bench akin to what I could 30 years back. Those rifles keep you 'humping' if you're gonna shoot them; takes more work than many realize! Now...I shoot my 6.5 x 47 Lapau and the 6MM Dasher. No recoil and accuracy many wouldn't believe! Hey....quit humping that snow coming soon. We don't need to do sh.t like onto that any more! Take care!


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I turned 80 this summer, and have already down sized. If you have kin that would like certain ones, get them to them now. If you have a wife, save her the frustration of what to do with them after you passed.

I missed several family heirlooms after my brother's wife sold them after he passes.

Otherwise they will be auctioned off with the estate if the executor doesn't care


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Originally Posted by saddlesore
I turned 80 this summer, and have already down sized. If you have kin that would like certain ones, get them to them now. If you have a wife, save her the frustration of what to do with them after you passed.

I missed several family heirlooms after my brother's wife sold them after he passes.

Otherwise they will be auctioned off with the estate if the executor doesn't care

I have 5 years on you but I'm only 26 between the ears laugh and I still shoot them all but more of the lighter calibers since I had retina separation twice now shooting the large capacity shells. Going in later today to see what they can do to fix the eyes so I can see better again.
Those rifles already have the finger prints on them on who want them. The whole clan shoots except my Wife. She is my coach and spotter. laugh

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Originally Posted by Sharpsman
Kurt

Did the same thing starting ten years back! I've got one 50/90 left with a new Badger barrel! Wish it was gone! Just could not sit at the loading bench akin to what I could 30 years back. Those rifles keep you 'humping' if you're gonna shoot them; takes more work than many realize! Now...I shoot my 6.5 x 47 Lapau and the 6MM Dasher. No recoil and accuracy many wouldn't believe! Hey....quit humping that snow coming soon. We don't need to do sh.t like onto that any more! Take care!

Good to see you still looking down at the grass my friend. Hope all is well on your end.
I see that you're down sizing to the girly calibers LOL so am I LOL.
I have 2 .38-50's already in these last two years laugh

Stay well Rick.

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For me it will probably be when the pursuit is o long fun. Hardly do I buy a rifle that I am not contemplating the next one to research and buy. The research, comparisons and pursuit is half the fun


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Can't tell you why it won't shoot but I can tell you it is not shot out. Old soft iron barrels would shoot out but not modern steel muzzleloader barrels. My renegade shoots just like it did when I bought it , even with the .54 barrel that I added . I use a .530 round ball and .018 patch and 65 grains of FFG Goex for target shooting and the same but with Dupont FFG for hunting. Even a smooth bore barrel should shoot better than a 7" group at 50 yards.


PS: Even a pitted barrel will usually shoot a group plenty good enough for hunting out to 100 yards.

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You never know how much is enough … till you’ve had too much!
Looks like you’re still having fun and have a good ways to go yet🦊


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Since they’re going to your children anyway, consider passing some along now while you can enjoy seeing them using them. While I don’t have much, and nothing like you do, I’ve suppressed my inner packrat a time or two and passed stuff on to my sons, and not stuff I was done with by any means.


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Originally Posted by gunner500
Never, my good Sir, just having these guns around will do a man's heart [mind] a world of good, when i get to old too see or weak to carry them across a mountain to hunt i'll still have them in safes/racks to go by and spend time with each day reliving the hunts, animals, shoots, and in your case shooting matches, have it setup in advance to go off to a reputable auction house or have a few select friends buy your rifles after you're gone, that's what i will do. smile


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The rifles already have their name on them. I don't have any Grand Sons but I have four grand Daughters that have been shooting my rifles and down the line I will most likely also have a Great Grand Son or G-Daughters. Heck I might even take Calamity my Favorite .50 Shiloh with me to the other side.

This little Gal is now 16 and she shoulders that .45-70 Rifle very well.
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We all shoot.
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