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Bone to pick with new rifle owners - 100 yards out of the box
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<blockquote data-quote="Ronald W Schaefer" data-source="post: 2919145" data-attributes="member: 109378"><p>I bought my first rifle ever-- a 300 Weatherby Mk V Mag made in West Germany in 1973 SN#21111. I was 17 and I bought it for $250.00 from a Dr. who took it Elk hunting in Colorado with his friends who invited him. He wasn't really a hunter, had never hunted before and hadn't shot the rifle--but decided to accompany his friends...gun shop had thankfully set him up correctly through his secretary who handled the deal. </p><p>Good news: He's sitting in a tree in a timber where Elk had been crossing for a few days. He shoots his first critter ever and bags a nice bull.</p><p>Bad news: the rifle knocks him out of the tree and breaks his collar bone. He is grateful for the success but decides hunting is not for him. Back home he comes into the gym where I was a personal trainer (still had abs then) and sees me drooling over a Weatherby catalog, shopping for a rifle for a senior graduation hunt planned in Alaska with a friend whose family owned property there. After some discussion and learning I had just started saving and only $300.00 saved up--he offers me the rifle for $250.00. Being before Venmo, iPhone and all that other stuff I got permission to leave from work to go to the bank to withdraw said $250.00 which I then tendered for a very beautiful, like new, hardly used rifle. It still sits in my gun safe today and looks new off the shelf--took it to Africa with me a few years ago. Sooo...that was a good story (for me) about a guy who showed up to camp not quite ready--it worked out nicely for me<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ronald W Schaefer, post: 2919145, member: 109378"] I bought my first rifle ever-- a 300 Weatherby Mk V Mag made in West Germany in 1973 SN#21111. I was 17 and I bought it for $250.00 from a Dr. who took it Elk hunting in Colorado with his friends who invited him. He wasn't really a hunter, had never hunted before and hadn't shot the rifle--but decided to accompany his friends...gun shop had thankfully set him up correctly through his secretary who handled the deal. Good news: He's sitting in a tree in a timber where Elk had been crossing for a few days. He shoots his first critter ever and bags a nice bull. Bad news: the rifle knocks him out of the tree and breaks his collar bone. He is grateful for the success but decides hunting is not for him. Back home he comes into the gym where I was a personal trainer (still had abs then) and sees me drooling over a Weatherby catalog, shopping for a rifle for a senior graduation hunt planned in Alaska with a friend whose family owned property there. After some discussion and learning I had just started saving and only $300.00 saved up--he offers me the rifle for $250.00. Being before Venmo, iPhone and all that other stuff I got permission to leave from work to go to the bank to withdraw said $250.00 which I then tendered for a very beautiful, like new, hardly used rifle. It still sits in my gun safe today and looks new off the shelf--took it to Africa with me a few years ago. Sooo...that was a good story (for me) about a guy who showed up to camp not quite ready--it worked out nicely for me:-)! [/QUOTE]
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