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Owen,
Great photo! No dove hunting here in Michigan, so I can only imagine.........
Karl

Thanks Karl Doves are a lot of fun when they are present in numbers, but can be spotty in my area. Scouting…and a friend living near a recently cut silage field to provide intelligence are key!

Owen,

Delightful to see an over and under Edwinson Green still in action. Let me know the serial number and I should be able to let you have a picture of the entry in Green’s order book.

PM me if you prefer,

Parabola

Thanks, parabola. I was fortunate to receive from the prior owner, a copy ledger entry for this gun, one of a pair. Interestingly, the ledger indicated choke as “imperceptible” for both tubes. Measured today, they are mod/mod.

Went shopping while in Edinburgh.
New shooting brake, to arrive some time in 2024.
Originally wanted white, but I drove the claret colored version, and changed my order.

WellCZ, I’m sure that Grenadier is a neat ride, but when you see the new 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser, you may have a little buyers remorse.Hope it serves you well regardless. Is there a service network in Canada for those things?
JR
https://www.toyota.com/upcoming-vehicles/landcruiser/

As much a Toyota fanboy as anybody, the dependence of the new LT on twin turbos gives me the willies. Same for Tacoma, Tundra and future 4Runners. What could possibly wrong with something times 2 spinning at 150,000+ RPM? The new LT is an improvement over the previous mall crawler despite the turbos. Gil

The new Lexus off road didn’t do it for me. Not coarse enough.
Toyota seats don’t fit me, and my wife couldn’t get in and out.
They’ll be great cars, but just not for me.

I liked the Hyundai hybrid I rented in the UK more than the Defender 110 I rented. I felt like a Russian mobster driving a blacked out 110.
The grenadier, has a driveline I can deal with (BMW, ZF) and can tow 7500 pounds with integrated trailer brakes.
So my hunting trailer will get a new tow vehicle.

Will be seeing much of America in it, second half of 2024.

CZ, I remember your mentioning a couple of years ago that you had one ordered. Very glad that you have a delivery window now. (BTW love the Claret choice).

Personally, I have been waiting to trade for the ‘25 4Runner but have been really disappointed to learn that although they are returning to the Tacoma platform they are dropping the 3.5L V-6 in favor of the twin turbo 4. I have a lot of miles on the 3.5L in a Tacoma and the 4.0L V-6 before it in an 4Runner and both were/are great, easy working engines. Really a shame mileage and emissions requirements are pushing out their V-6’s.

Keep us updated on your Grenadier.

I am consciously making the decision to stay retro on this.
But anything derived from the Taco is 3 gens too old for me.
I don’t drive enough miles anymore. I don’t care about the reliability at 300,000 miles. I want to be comfortable, I want the interior to be quiet, I want the seats to make thousand mile days possible, and I want to be able to tow my grouse hunting rig anywhere I want to park it.
That is very different from vehicle derived from a taco.
My wife has a replacement hip, two new knees, and arthritic ankles. She loved the Recaro’s, so the rest is a no-brainer.

We don’t get to choose how long we are going to live. We only get to choose what we do with the time presented to us. So, the days of riding in a vehicle that punishes me with every $.50 saved on fuel or at resale, is no longer of any interest.
YMMV of course.