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This!

That rifle is pretty desirable by the stand hunting crowd. I'd take the money and put it toward a hunt and go make some memories.

The world is full of rifles. You only have a limited amount of time on this earth and you won't be strong and healthy for all of it. Decide what you want to hunt (or can hunt, as the case may be) then make those hunts with the rifles you have. Do the hardest ones first.

I've owned hundreds of rifles over the years. I don't remember the details of most of them, but I think about the hunts all the time.


Okie John

If it was me, I'd keep it as-is. Sounds like your niches are filled with other rifles, there's no unmet need, so no real need to change things up .. maybe other than boredom. I've made some stupid choices out of boredom.

You won't make enough from the rifle to do much hunting been there done that. Sounds good, but foolish. Keep it. One caliber I am never without.

You won't make enough from the rifle to do much hunting been there done that. Sounds good, but foolish. Keep it. One caliber I am never without.

Classic buy vs build. Cost 'em out while it sits in the safe. If something else floats yer boat then move it on down the road....

Keep it!

I have a basic battery. I've hunted in Northern California and now in Pa. A Savage f in 308 Win that wears a 2x7 Leupold, my go-to rifle. A Rem 700 in 280 Rem with a 4x12 Leupold will take me out to 450 yards and is heaver. A custom Mauser in 6.5-06 with a 26-inch match Shilin barrel, Leupold 4.5x16 VXL and Boyd's At-One stock as a distance/varmint rifle. It's too heavy to carry and spends more time in the safe than the other two, but it's there when I want it.

If you handload, load up some varmint rounds for the heavy barrel 25 with much lighter bullets. Then you still have your prairie antelope and deer cartridge, perhaps hogs as well, a rocking coyote rifle, and while it wouldn't be your only gun to reach for at a prairie dog town, it could still make the trip back to ND with you when you decide to come for a visit. Change up your ammo and you'll double the potential uses you do have with the rifle.