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If you could have just one rifle back ?
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<blockquote data-quote="bbckfh" data-source="post: 1418339" data-attributes="member: 100810"><p>I feel lucky, because I'd considered selling mine, but dodged that bullet. </p><p></p><p>We'd just found out that my wife was pregnant. Four years into marriage, a couple of deployments... We hadn't thought it was going to happen. Well, my wife really wanted to know the baby's gender, so we got the ultrasound. Sure enough, it was a girl. Well I was apparently quiet, really because I was trying to figure out how I'd be a father, but she interpreted that as disappointment that she was a girl. </p><p></p><p>So she takes me to the store, and tells me to pick out a rifle, saying "it's a girl; you'll need this". It was really cute. The rifle is one of the then-brand-new Browning X-Bolts. It's the base Hunter model, so not fancy, but it's what we could afford. </p><p></p><p>Still have that wonderful wife, still have that rifle, and my daughter will come hunting with me this fall. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't shooting so well, so it'll get a new barrel this year. Had considered selling it since it didn't shoot and I got a great offer on a CRF m70 (could have been net-positive financially), but I'm glad I didn't. It's going to morph from a .308 into a 6.5cm, which should also make it a little softer shooting for my daughter when I leave it to her. For now, she gets the Grendel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbckfh, post: 1418339, member: 100810"] I feel lucky, because I'd considered selling mine, but dodged that bullet. We'd just found out that my wife was pregnant. Four years into marriage, a couple of deployments... We hadn't thought it was going to happen. Well, my wife really wanted to know the baby's gender, so we got the ultrasound. Sure enough, it was a girl. Well I was apparently quiet, really because I was trying to figure out how I'd be a father, but she interpreted that as disappointment that she was a girl. So she takes me to the store, and tells me to pick out a rifle, saying "it's a girl; you'll need this". It was really cute. The rifle is one of the then-brand-new Browning X-Bolts. It's the base Hunter model, so not fancy, but it's what we could afford. Still have that wonderful wife, still have that rifle, and my daughter will come hunting with me this fall. It wasn't shooting so well, so it'll get a new barrel this year. Had considered selling it since it didn't shoot and I got a great offer on a CRF m70 (could have been net-positive financially), but I'm glad I didn't. It's going to morph from a .308 into a 6.5cm, which should also make it a little softer shooting for my daughter when I leave it to her. For now, she gets the Grendel. [/QUOTE]
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