I have some I wouldn't hunt with. Watching Mrs. Cannon wipe out on the trail and propel my $2000 Super-90 into an icy mud puddle was incentive to buy her a different shotgun for her birthday lmao. However, I shoot all mine, including the collector guns I have that I paid a great deal for.
Does anyone else have a rifle that is just too nice to hunt with?
- Thread starter cdncowboy
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steve-o1979
Regular
- Location
- Nova Scotia
I wouldn't take any of my guns to a manure pile or a landfill either. With that being said, I "abuse" the wife far more than any of my guns ����
I will use all of my guns... some only in certain conditions though. If I'm gonna be hunting in a rainstorm, the T/C venture goes along.
Respectfully asking, the ones that do not hunt with walnut or other wood stocks in adverse conditions, rain, snow, sleet, hail, is there a specific reason not too.
I have hunted hard in all weather groups with wood stocks and have found it not detrimental to the gun with proper cleaning, wipe down, oil and storage after the hunt.
I have hunted hard in all weather groups with wood stocks and have found it not detrimental to the gun with proper cleaning, wipe down, oil and storage after the hunt.
steve-o1979
Regular
- Location
- Nova Scotia
For me, it's not about the wood. It's the water everywhere else. I used the venture on a moose hunt a few years back... pouring rain. By the time we got the moose out, and I got back to the motel and cleaned the gun, it already had spots of rust under the action.
hometownhero
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Toon Town, Sk
Lots of fun varmints to shoot at both places.
I can understand the jest behind selling it to a bonefied collector.
Might see daylight longer in the future.
I have some decent aged ker-pows and have regulated certain members to certain duties.
I'm a putz with these tools out in the bush.
Can't seem to bring one home wihtout some sort of injury.
My A-5 ole paw bawt me new in 1984 fur me birthday. Nawt mint any more.
So jest t'uther day I bawt one older by a few years in great shape tuh beat up.
Me old BLR is nice'n shiney and it too wears a oh'poop courtessy of moi.
I sure don't know oar understand oww so many awn'ear can take their shooters out
and come back unblemished.
Dizz nawt be normal......................................
I thought is father give it to him to continue on caring for it, Keep it in the family, that all
- Location
- Saskatchewan
I spent 5 very long years and ran an add on the EE for 3 solid years. Hundreds of phone calls and thousands of hours cruising gun sites and papers trying to find a LH browning a bolt micro 2 in 22 hornet. Well, a few months back I finally found once and bought it. Mounted a scope and sighted it in. That's it, she now sits in the safe. I just can't bring my self to shoot her... maybe come spring she will come out for gopher season....
pete dobinson
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Courtenay BC.
If a rifle is too nice to hunt with, then you really couldn't afford the rifle in the first place.
Money has nothing to do with it. In my case it's the rarity of the gun in it's condition. That holds more value to me then what it is worth in $. I certainly don't need the money and am not keeping it good for the next guy... gonna bury me with it.
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dude, no woman is too beautiful to s#@$w! lol
I agree completely!
If it's to nice to take outta the safe why buy it in the first place.....A gun like that I'd hunt with and be happy doing so
Knew a guy, bought a brand new Weatherby MK lV, 460 Mag, as a conversation piece, 30 years ago. He just died, that gun was never fired as far as I know. One of those eccentricities people with too much money develop.
Grizz
- Location
- Steel Town and The Peg
yes, and they're all sold now.
