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<blockquote data-quote="djm670" data-source="post: 1472185" data-attributes="member: 36341"><p>Some of your thoughts I can agree on, but I think the basis of the issue is that we don't always buy firearms because they are the most efficient for the job at hand. </p><p></p><p>In many ways a particular fire arm is a part of our history. I don't have a .264 Winchester Magnum, and I don't need a .264 Winchester magnum to shoot anything that I hunt, but I have wanted one ever since I read the literature and saw the first one in my uncle's hardeware store in Martinsdale, Montana when I was a young lad. </p><p></p><p>Flat shooting, not much recoil..at the time I thought it was an excellent or ideal elk rifle - still do. It is the thing dreams are made of. An excellent western cartridge at least in my mind's eye and I suspect it is in the OP's eye. I suspect it is more about romance and dreams, then competition and shooting round after round. The need or want of a good firearm doesn't have to be driven by it's being the best or most efficient one. </p><p></p><p>Ha ha.. and the uncle who own the hardware store where I longingly gazed at that first Winchester .264 magnum for hours.. he loaned me his 57 J2 Olds station wagon so I could take a girl to the prom.. Memories often drive our firearm needs - right or wrong!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djm670, post: 1472185, member: 36341"] Some of your thoughts I can agree on, but I think the basis of the issue is that we don't always buy firearms because they are the most efficient for the job at hand. In many ways a particular fire arm is a part of our history. I don't have a .264 Winchester Magnum, and I don't need a .264 Winchester magnum to shoot anything that I hunt, but I have wanted one ever since I read the literature and saw the first one in my uncle's hardeware store in Martinsdale, Montana when I was a young lad. Flat shooting, not much recoil..at the time I thought it was an excellent or ideal elk rifle - still do. It is the thing dreams are made of. An excellent western cartridge at least in my mind's eye and I suspect it is in the OP's eye. I suspect it is more about romance and dreams, then competition and shooting round after round. The need or want of a good firearm doesn't have to be driven by it's being the best or most efficient one. Ha ha.. and the uncle who own the hardware store where I longingly gazed at that first Winchester .264 magnum for hours.. he loaned me his 57 J2 Olds station wagon so I could take a girl to the prom.. Memories often drive our firearm needs - right or wrong! [/QUOTE]
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