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Hey all, as in years past, I thought I'd start this thread again.

Let's see those wonderful pictures and stories for this season as you have in the past.

Please keep on topic and of course civil and please no personal attacks or comments.

Wishing each of you a very successful and above all a safe season.

Stay well my friends

Greg

Winchester 1886 50-100-450. Extremely rare and 14 special order features. I took it to Texas and killed a pig with it...

Lloyd,
Glad to see this up and running again! Looking forward to getting out this season and contribute to it.
Best wishes,
Karl

I'm working on that Karl. I'll be hitting the road Monday. Trading fly fishing...





for bird hunting...





I'm a two-truck redneck these days, eh?

BTW: Neat 1886 Shrapnel, mine is my paternal great-grandfathers, chambered in .33 WCF.

I like your .33 WCF Lloyd.

Mine is similar, but solid frame and it doesn’t have that splendid aperture sight.

I harvested a Fallow Doe with it, possibly the only deer shot with a .33 WCF in England in the 21st century (mind you I suspect not many were shot over here with one in the 20th century although they were advertised in India between the Wars).

Parabola: Thank you. A Fallow doe seems pretty unique to me.

Mine's probably the most practical heirloom I ever received from my family, and I've used it off and on ever since my first whitetail kill with it (in my ancestral home of NW Pennsylvania when I was 13-years old). It's been mostly a deer rifle over its existence, but it has seen a few exotics I suppose, like a buffalo (in a quasi-canned hunt here), reportedly a moose (in Canada in the 1950s), and even an elk (in a "finishing" situation here in Colorado in the early 2000s). Every time I use it I am shocked by how pleasant it is to shoot (when compared to the Model 71 that replaced it, chambered in .348). It has a great trigger and that Lyman sight is darned-efficient in dark timber (which is likely why my ancestor chose to obtain it), especially on running game. You largely shoot it like a shotgun and it seems to work every time. I really should use it more, but out here in the "high & dry" (as I refer to it) it's limited by it's ballistics and the ranges I seem to need to shoot at anymore. My son gets it next.

Lloyd,
Is your brother going to hang with us at LOW? I was going to try to arrive when the women folk had shoved off.

Truly, looking forward to it.



Best,
Ted

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Beautiful Winchester. Always wanted to plug a pig with my Model 71.

Ted: Great picture of Louie! I'm looking for him earlier (as he likes to use his boat to fish). How long he'll stay is anybody's guess, but I'd expect him to be gone by late October.

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My .405 Winchester take down rescued from a pawn shop. So far relegated to buffalo hunting in the back yard . The express sights are a challenge for these old eyes.