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Another what if!

Opportunity has fallen square on top of you, and without even noticing you have the chance of a lifetime. Your wife's willing, works been good, bills are paid, and you actually have money saved for those emergencies. Kids are all grown, and it's just you and your wife. This year your wife says to use the tax return money to build that custom ?????, and take that hunt of a lifetime you've only been able to dream about.

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What's it going to be?

Phil

I'd make darn sure you really need a custom. If this has any chance of being a one shot deal, I'd make a trip to Africa on all of it. E

If youv never been to Africa then go. Seeing a hundred of these thundering by you, shakeing the earth, is a sight. Let me tell you. But its more then that. For a big game hunter Africa is the kind of place you try and squeeze every second to make it last longer. You also get a pile of shooting for your money, and even tho your in the bush the lodges there are the lap of luxury..........10
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I am with Eremicus, no custom for me, I'd grab my 30-06 and buy a nice factory 40 something caliber and get on the plane for AFRICA!

The only problem with this is, After your kids are grown your tax return wont hardly buy bullets.
Besides if my wife was willing I stay home with her <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Hooker

I have no desire to go to Africa or California. I would have a Shilo Sharps built in 50-110 and go hunt Bison in Montana.
My tastes are simple and desires few, but to kill a big bull Buffalo with a black powder Buffalo gun well.......

Bullwnkl.

I don't need a custom, I'm set for about anything on this continent. I've got a good '06, .30-30, .22lr., .22 mag, 8x57 and .223, so all I need is the time away from work.

My dream hunt would be to take the period from Oct. 15 to Dec. 15 away from work to hunt deer at home, elk in Co. and hogs in Tx. hill country. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I have record book deer bedding in sight of my living room window, I just have'nt figured out how to take them by Fair Chase, so far. I won't shoot across a road or a bedded deer. If I had more time to hunt, I could increase my odds of catching one of these monsters in a mistake, they don't make many.

I also rank squirrel hunting, when the leaves come off, with a good .22lr, right up there with a good elk hunt. A 2 week squirrel hunt in the Daniel Boone Nat'l Forest is pure hunting fun.

I'm facing the prospects of an even better situation than a gigantic tax return -- with one book almost ready to publish, several more "in the cylinder," one or more potential consulting clients, wife dead these fourteen years, all three "kids" grown and doing well on their own. One book notion, The Ultimate Hunting Rifle, would be a long, detailed treatise on planning and having a couple (varmint and big-game) of affordable custom hunting rifles built. (One rifle is already done.)

But my top choice of "how best to spend a big windfall" (like finding the undiscovered wreckage of a loaded Brinks truck, for example) is different -- probably unique:

Building, equipping, and operating the best dang Powley Center possible -- for the independent study of sporting-arms ballistics, open to any "ordinary" shooter who wants to learn more about ballistics, the Constitution, writing, or photography -- or just wants to enjoy good fellowship with other serious shooters.

And that's what I'm working on. All who want to dream along with me, be my guest. There's plenty of room in this dream for everybody.

Well I allready own all the rifles of my dreams (other than the Savage 12BVSS .22-250 which I plan to buy before spring), I am slowly building my custom Jeep CJ, thats been a multi year project I hope to complete by this summer...

My Dream hunt would be a paid hunt for my Dad & I to Alaska for a big Brown Bear & an Alaskan Moose. My Dad is 73 now, beginning to weaken and has failing eyesight & wouldn't likely Hunt, but I would love to arange an adventure trip like that for the two of us before he dies. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You should look into one of the ship board hunts for brown bear as it is relatively easy hunting. You live on board a large comfortable boat and make daily trips in a small boat along the coast looking for bear. When you find one, you land and stalk it. This should work for a 73 year old guy.



Conrad

Yea, that's kinda what I had in mind since Dad loves to fish as well. Not sure how that fits with a Bull Moose hunt though, as I don't normally think of Moose in close proximity to the coast.

Need to win a lottery <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

North!...To Alaska!
With a run-of-the-mill .338, loaded for Alaskan brown bear (and maybe a little fishing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />).

-FreeMe

Hmmmmm . . . . tough call,

Alaska with a 45-70 or Africa with a 375 H&H . . . . . .

I'd go to Alaska I suppose . . . . . . I just enjoy eating what I kill . . .

Moose, Caribou, Deer, catch some Salmon, maybe get some Halibut.

Fill the freezer for a year or more.

BMT

Skip Africa (been there done that) go straight to Alaska. Been there done that too, but want to do it again, and again, and again.....

i'd go to alaska with a griffen/howe in .30/06.

Like mine? This one was born in 1940 from a commercial Mauser action.

very nice~!

Thank you Sir, as you can tell by the pictures she is no safe queen. Been hunted much and always did the job.



BTW, today G&H would get from $7,000.00 and up to build that rifle on YOUR action! This with a 2-2 1/2 year wait.

in some ways, that might sound a bit extravagant; in others, perfectly reasonable!

My grandad always said: "You get what you pay for and pay for what you get." I would not be able to afford such an item today, but would not hesitate if I could. That rifle has been used by several members of the family besides me from Alaska to the Rockies and then some. ALWAYS worked as it should. Says something for their quality of workmanship. As an aside, if you open the bolt then tip the muzzle down it will completly go into battery by itself on an empty chamber.