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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1652762" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Reminds me of an article in what I think was American Rifleman (probably something else similar) from an absolute coon's age ago. Some kid bought himself a .375H&H and was going to hunt some kind of American deer like thing with it. Apparently he shot it one time and found himself suddenly and utterly disenchanted with the thing and he then sold it at a huge loss to the eventual writer of the article. I gather the author of the article knew exactly what he was getting into while the kid only thought he did. </p><p></p><p>When I was young I won a double rifle in .600NE and just under 100 rounds of ammo from my dad. He'd won it in the same way as I did, only a couple decades earlier. The way we both had won it was to shoot it from the shoulder twice in 5 minutes. We're not a family of big guys by any stretch so what the bet amounted to was, "Hey, if this doesn't fold you into a human taco, it's yours." I thought I wanted it because it was cool as heck and worth more money than I'd seriously thought I'd ever own. I never fired it again after that day, nor as far as I know has anyone else. In the end that rifle was sold. </p><p></p><p>Something that strikes me is that the person my dad won it from must have had something of a love hate relationship with it to have put it on the betting table in the first place which suggests to me that he thought he knew what he was getting into but perhaps changed his mind later on. </p><p></p><p>This all brings to the fore a mental picture of a fine double rifle with an elegant minimum of delicate engraving whose entire life history amounts to little more than a game of hot potato. Kinda sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1652762, member: 96226"] Reminds me of an article in what I think was American Rifleman (probably something else similar) from an absolute coon's age ago. Some kid bought himself a .375H&H and was going to hunt some kind of American deer like thing with it. Apparently he shot it one time and found himself suddenly and utterly disenchanted with the thing and he then sold it at a huge loss to the eventual writer of the article. I gather the author of the article knew exactly what he was getting into while the kid only thought he did. When I was young I won a double rifle in .600NE and just under 100 rounds of ammo from my dad. He'd won it in the same way as I did, only a couple decades earlier. The way we both had won it was to shoot it from the shoulder twice in 5 minutes. We're not a family of big guys by any stretch so what the bet amounted to was, "Hey, if this doesn't fold you into a human taco, it's yours." I thought I wanted it because it was cool as heck and worth more money than I'd seriously thought I'd ever own. I never fired it again after that day, nor as far as I know has anyone else. In the end that rifle was sold. Something that strikes me is that the person my dad won it from must have had something of a love hate relationship with it to have put it on the betting table in the first place which suggests to me that he thought he knew what he was getting into but perhaps changed his mind later on. This all brings to the fore a mental picture of a fine double rifle with an elegant minimum of delicate engraving whose entire life history amounts to little more than a game of hot potato. Kinda sad. [/QUOTE]
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