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NWPilgrim · November 12, 2013, 04:57 PM

I was just thinking about this and my Grandpa.He was as much of a "one rifle" man as anyone I've known. His father-in-law gave him a Win 94 .30WCF for a wedding present (1916) as that is what he used for hunting for the next 40 years. In fact, he was a one cartridge per hunt guy, too. However, even he had an old 7mm Spanish Mauser stashed in the closet, and bought my dad a used Savage .30-06 for his 16th birthday ($35!). That was all during the Depression.

Rifles are like magnets, once you have one rifle it seems to attract others to your safe/closet/cabinet sooner or later. My dad hunted mostly with his .308 Rem 760. Somewhere along the line my brain diverted and I ended up with a bunch of rifles.

November 12, 2013, 04:57 PM	#49
NWPilgrim Senior Member Join Date: September 29, 2008 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,346	I was just thinking about this and my Grandpa.He was as much of a "one rifle" man as anyone I've known. His father-in-law gave him a Win 94 .30WCF for a wedding present (1916) as that is what he used for hunting for the next 40 years. In fact, he was a one cartridge per hunt guy, too. However, even he had an old 7mm Spanish Mauser stashed in the closet, and bought my dad a used Savage .30-06 for his 16th birthday ($35!). That was all during the Depression. Rifles are like magnets, once you have one rifle it seems to attract others to your safe/closet/cabinet sooner or later. My dad hunted mostly with his .308 Rem 760. Somewhere along the line my brain diverted and I ended up with a bunch of rifles. __________________ "The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. ... The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition." - James Madison