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<blockquote data-quote="Keith M Sheehan" data-source="post: 1453978" data-attributes="member: 89498"><p>Hi everyone, I usually just content myself to read yhe many comments and ideas of otherss who are much more savy than me, but the question of core rifle intrigued me. A week ago I just celebrated my 75th birthday, and I got a little nostalgic. Looking back on my hunting adventures, I started hunting groundhogs in the farm lands of upstate N.Y. State with my first rifle, a pre-war M70 in .30-06, and I still have it. Since then I graduated to hunting all over Alaska (lived in the Bush for 8 years) and the lower 48, New Zealand and six times to Africa. In 1972 I bought the first M95 .45-70 Marlin to arrive in Alaska and during the next 40 years killed 68 big game animals with a total of 72 shots. Yeah, I know it's "low tech" and demands that you get within several hundred yards to take a humane shot, but, lets face it, when the bullet is in the air, the hunt is over and the work begins. Over the years I've amassed dozens of long guns and have concluded that all I need is 4 guns, all of which are based on the incredible Blaser R93 format (or maybe thier newer version the R8). The ones I have are: .22-250, 6.5x55 Swede, 7mmSTW, and .375 H&H. With those 4 guns I can hunt any animal in the world with confidence. Scopes on three of them ar Swarovski 4.5-14x, with the .22-250 having a 6-20x Leopold. A Swarovski 1.5-4x graces the Marlin .45-70. Five guns, that's it. Oh yeah, and a souped-up AR to protect them. Best regards, Keith M. Sheehan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keith M Sheehan, post: 1453978, member: 89498"] Hi everyone, I usually just content myself to read yhe many comments and ideas of otherss who are much more savy than me, but the question of core rifle intrigued me. A week ago I just celebrated my 75th birthday, and I got a little nostalgic. Looking back on my hunting adventures, I started hunting groundhogs in the farm lands of upstate N.Y. State with my first rifle, a pre-war M70 in .30-06, and I still have it. Since then I graduated to hunting all over Alaska (lived in the Bush for 8 years) and the lower 48, New Zealand and six times to Africa. In 1972 I bought the first M95 .45-70 Marlin to arrive in Alaska and during the next 40 years killed 68 big game animals with a total of 72 shots. Yeah, I know it's "low tech" and demands that you get within several hundred yards to take a humane shot, but, lets face it, when the bullet is in the air, the hunt is over and the work begins. Over the years I've amassed dozens of long guns and have concluded that all I need is 4 guns, all of which are based on the incredible Blaser R93 format (or maybe thier newer version the R8). The ones I have are: .22-250, 6.5x55 Swede, 7mmSTW, and .375 H&H. With those 4 guns I can hunt any animal in the world with confidence. Scopes on three of them ar Swarovski 4.5-14x, with the .22-250 having a 6-20x Leopold. A Swarovski 1.5-4x graces the Marlin .45-70. Five guns, that's it. Oh yeah, and a souped-up AR to protect them. Best regards, Keith M. Sheehan [/QUOTE]
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