Ok Rusty, you spoke to soon. If I were to win a hunt locally (tho the place I hunt has produced 2 over 160" 1 over 170" and a top 5 state record @ 184" so I doubt this outfitters place is gonna interest me! Can we talk about Kansas or the upper MS region?) I would go too the "deer rifle" that has never failed me in its short 5 seasons of use (but it has collected over 10 deer each year so it has some experience) my Sako TRG-S Lazzeroni Warbird. Sure its hellaciously powerful but like I say too those who ask, "I have yet to kill anything to dead with it!"

Wherever they are and I can see 'em, then Katy bar the door because they are about to get a couple of holes in their hide (always makes two holes, have never had a bullet stop, even on shots over 400yds). The load is the same as well, the 150grn Lazerhead from Lazzeroni (a tweaked Barnes Triple Shock if you will).

Thats my true "go too" gun if I have my pick. The rest of my arsenal is for the hell of it. My second pick would be a 280 700 from the Remington Custom Shop. What it lacks in pizaaz it MORE than makes up in its ability to bore one ragged hole @ 100yds with as many bullets as you want to fire down range.

Good question
RA

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Wahunterinrok, THANK YOU for your service too our country and above all GOD BLESS and good luck!!!

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Btw, DM that rifle is BEAUTIFUL. I think after amassing a small arsenal of mostly "hunting guns" the urge to begin collecting beatiful pieces of artwork has hit me. More and more I find myself looking over the stainless and plastic boomsticks and going for hand rubbed oil finishes, fancy checkering and custom engraving. I used to drool at black deathsticks like those from Jarret, Brown, McMillan, Lazzeroni etc... Now I find myself mesmerized by the shooting pieces from H&H, Weatherby's own custom shop creation's, English doubles and the like. NA$TY HABIT$ are these freaking things. But hey, they hold their value MUCH better than the latest and greatest injection molded, super metal monstrosities from every swingin you know what who calls himself a "custom gunner". (I'm practicing that phrase for when my wife asks about the money spent on the gun collection!)