luv2safari
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LW, that's why I bought a gun that now would break my bank. I wanted it, but...BUT I have practical uses for my combo guns and another reason I buy them other than pride of ownership.want is a big part...and if you got the cash then 350K might as well be 3500
Hell im trying to figure out how to afford @luv2safari 's cape gun down in the BST.
No practical use, but I WANT it.....
I love to hunt grouse and wild chukar, and our deer season runs concurrently with the bird seasons. It's why I worked like a dog...no a dog team at age 12 mowing lawns and gardening for an eye doctor friend of my dad's for a long summer to buy a drilling. I got to keep the money, however. The doctor knew I wanted a drilling more than anything else in the world. He Gave me his drilling, a circa 1909 Sauer/Charles Daly sidelock-side cock in 12/12/30-30!
My first hunt with it was on valley quail at a ranch along the Truckee River just east of Reno. My dad and Dr Clark were friends of the owner, and it was a quail factory. With great dog work from our griffons and the Dr's shorthair we had point after point. I went 10 for 10 that day with the drilling that fit me like it was made for me, hardly warming the left barrel, although I did take one double. By fall I was now 13 and "no longer a kid", as I told my dad.
Pop beamed, the Dr smiled in satisfaction, the dogs had a great time, and Johnny Armstrong, the ranch owner, was dazzled by the three-barreled wonder-gun. I've only shot that well one other time in my entire life, a very long life. Later that season I killed a limit of quail, limit of chukar, and a 5X5 mulie buck on top of the NE end of the Limbo range, all in one day and all with that drilling. It was the best hunting season of my lifetime and the last season ever like that in NV.
I have always earned just a lower middle class salary, but I made combination guns and hunting with them a top priority; I've owned around 200 over the years. I see one I might like, get it, hunt with it usually, and move it along to use the funds to get another. A few found permanent homes. This is how I feed an addiction on meager funds.
The BSW cape gun was intended as a keeper when I got it, but rapid downturns in my ability to hike up our steep craggy terrain, let alone get back down have me passing along my steel-n-walnut friends to good homes with the hope that they'll be used as intended by the master gunmakers. Seeing this BSW go will be pretty hard, but it needs someone who will shoot it.
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