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Mike, I'm still waiting for my confirmation of membership on that board. It's been a couple weeks and I've not heard anything from them. Sure looks like a fine place for doubles. I'm not surprised at what you or AkMike say reference the cost. No, I don't believe I'll be spending $800.00 on a $500.00 rifle.

AkMike, I reckon I'll live with it. It MIGHT be able to be tweaked a bit more but I'm not very confident. I have an E. M. Reilley in 500 BPE and an E. Goldmann in 43 Mauser for cartridge doubles. Either should take care of anything I'm liable to encounter in Missouri...lol. I much prefer the vintage, hammer doubles to newer stuff....that's just how my head is screwed on.

Thanks so much to all of you for the good, solid information. Hopefully some day I'll be able to return the favor but given you guys knowledge I'm not very confident of that either.

Sharps I'm a born and raised Missourian. Farm country is a great place to grow up in. Unfortunately my kids grew up moving every 6 months to 3 years. That also has it pluses and minuses but they turned out well.

Realizing it's not safe to assume, I will still assume you are retired military? If so, thank you for your service to our country. I understand the moving part but fortunately I didn't have to do much of it when I was in....'course I didn't get to see much but north Texas and the Arizona desert. Where'd ya grow up, Mike?

There must be something in Missouri for me other than my family. I have fled this state three times and vowed never to return to live. Where do I find myself nearing the end of my working life, less than 40 miles from where I grew up. Don't get me wrong, I like Missouri and there are cerainly worse places to be. As with all places it has its charms, here in the Ozarks being one of them. But my plan was to die an old man in the northern Rockies. All I know about that now is I'll leave this little piece of Ozark rocks when they carry me off it.

Near a small town in the NW called Rushville. Lived in the Missiouri river bottoms and have been in more floods than I want to remember. I spent 23 years in. Everyone's more than welcome.

I've got several underlever and hammered DR guns as well as the newer box and side lock DRs. I like them all!

I spent a little time in KCMO and we went on camping trips and canoeing the rivers down in the Ozarks back in the mid 60's. It was nice then but no idea how much it's changed by now.
I've been here since 66 and it's home now.

I'm certain I would like the box locks and side locks....back when I was buying and trading DR's the older rifles were all I could afford. However, I've always preferred older firearms so I doubt I would have moved forward in time much. More than likely the quality of older firearms I have would have increased. I only own one scoped, bolt action rifle.

DR's have incresed quite a bit in the last 15-20 years, our income took a big hit when my wife became disabled shortly after I acquired a couple doubles so unfortunately my days of adding to my meager collection are finished....unless some big windfall comes in. I don't see any such thing on the horizon.

AkMike, there's a lot more city folks utilizing the Ozark creeks in the summer than there was back then. Other than that things haven't changed a great deal. Plain truth is that there isn't a lot of opportunity in the Ozarks in general. Specific places have boomed, Branson being the first that comes to mind, but generally throughout the area there hasn't been a lot of growth. It was poor country when I was a kid back in the 50's and 60's and pretty much remains so today.

We sure had fun canoeing the rivers and shooting bullfrogs with a Benjamin pellet gun as well as the camping beside the creeks/rivers.

I seem to recall one named Big Greasy. Ever hear of it?

Big Greasy? No, I can't say I have heard of it. Big Piney yes and it isn't far from me but not Big Greasy.

PM me your details about the application to NE forums and I'll get an answer from the admin.