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Art Eatman · March 10, 2007, 12:12 PM

Back when I was regularly hunting on a lease some 170 miles from home, I almost always took two rifles "in case of in case": My '06 and my .243. What I used on any given hunt-session depended on where on the ranch I'd hunt and the likely type of shot I might get.

So far, in the last 45 years, "backup" has never been any sort of actual need.

Art

March 10, 2007, 12:12 PM	#13
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	Back when I was regularly hunting on a lease some 170 miles from home, I almost always took two rifles "in case of in case": My '06 and my .243. What I used on any given hunt-session depended on where on the ranch I'd hunt and the likely type of shot I might get. So far, in the last 45 years, "backup" has never been any sort of actual need. Art