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I have, Lance, built and sold guns for a living for the last ten years. I am just now transitioning to something a little more stable to support my family.
This was not about having the fanciest gun, or the newest latest greatest caliber. Rather, it was about enriching the experience by taking something that I had built for my first bear hunt.
The rifles I was (and still am) building are an '06 and a .35 Whelen. Nothing exotic.
Had I been going up on a guided trip for a trophy brown, perhaps I would have done differently. But I had literally ten rifles to choose from as backups that were already in Alaska and sighted in, so Mr. Murphy didn't get as much say as you think.
This was not about having the fanciest gun, or the newest latest greatest caliber. Rather, it was about enriching the experience by taking something that I had built for my first bear hunt.
The rifles I was (and still am) building are an '06 and a .35 Whelen. Nothing exotic.
Had I been going up on a guided trip for a trophy brown, perhaps I would have done differently. But I had literally ten rifles to choose from as backups that were already in Alaska and sighted in, so Mr. Murphy didn't get as much say as you think.