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There are lots of geezers here who persist in our hobbies. As one of them, there are still things I'd like to try. I'll mention a couple and hope others will chime in with their own lists. Maybe members here have something they no longer need that others could use I'm hoping to find a kipplauf in a good hunting caliber and a Soper rifle. I missed the latter at Holt's, alas. There must be others out there.

I've attained most guns that were on my bucket list. Now it's time to start weeding out the stuff I acquired earlier in life which now sits and gathers dust, and shooting the heck out of the bucket-listers!

A couple of new rifles are on the way. I did not know the Grant was on my bucket list until I viewed it.

Snap action sidelock Grant in 500-450 #1 Express





.303 British Best quality Gibbs Sporter

50 more years hunting with my son and grandson,anything else seems pedestrian

Just looked at a couple of pictures. About four or five years ago, our son got about a ninety yard, lucky, shot on a gopher with a switch barrel 22 single shot that's a good hundred and forty years old now. As current keeper of that particular rifle, it was the first "game" that fell to that barrel, the other barrel has taken two or three averageish big game critters.

Fast forward to last summer, and I have a picture of the grand sons holding up slayed soup cans. Necessarily "hunted" with pistols of twelve rounds or greater magazines. The country is going tochit, but our daughter and son in law are bringing up the grandsons to be outstanding citizens of the US of A, and they have monster ear to ear grins in the picture. They certainly are not criminals, and when push comes to shove, I'll hand over all the fun shooter toys they handle, face to face, before this great nation is transformed forever. Never fear, some of them will be boring single shots, and maybe some doubles, just for shooting in the air, but they've been taught better than to do something so dangerous and irresponsible.

Best of luck on your searches, neither has ever "spoken" to me, but I'd slow down and take a good long gander at either. I never cared for how the Soper action works, but I like a quality break action singleshot, particularly if you can track one down with original, or appropriate, scope rings. Don't give up the search.

I have just about everything on my list and then some. Finding the time to load and use what I have is getting harder all the time.

Likewise I need to weed out and reduce stock.

My bucket list is small, as is my areas of interest now. I used to want every type of 1800's American single shot cartridge rifle I could afford, and some I couldn't afford too! As time passed, I've concentrated on Marlin Ballard rifles, and Remington Rolling Block and Hepburn rifles exclusively. Sold off a bunch of others, but still have a few guns outside my interest that I've just had too long to want to let them go.
There's only maybe 4-6 rifles within my collecting/shooting interest now that I'd like to buy, but they're expensive and rare enough to likely never obtain without something else going away to fund them. I did recently pickup one bucket list rifle at the CGCA show in May when I bought my engraved #6 Ballard Scheutzen with a George C. Schoyen barrel. I've got several #6's, but none were the factory engraved versions, so that niche is filled now.

Steve, the Grant looks like it came with some hollow point bullets. Is there a mold in there too? Pretty cool rifle.

Brent,

Top photo , left hand side of case, you can see the side of the mould - looks like a bronze mallet.

Opposite end of case you can see the core plug to form the hollow points on casting.

Very nice rifles SKB.