I bought:

1- Sitka hats
2- knife with mastodon handle scrimshawed with a kudu
3-portable target with gongs
4- cuff links and tux studs from Mavros

Things that I am likely to buy:

1- New VC 500NE
2- Buff/banteng with Goodhand Outback Experience
3- laser shooting game

2 Arno Barnard sheath knives.
Peter Flack book on Bushbucks.
Elephant rifle sling.
Ashleigh George necklace for my new daughter in law.

Austria hunt. Argentina hunt. Merkel drilling rifle. Elk tooth ring for my wife

I bought a sauerkraut sausage dog, and a bottle of water for $15 dollars!

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Bought

A trip back to the Save Conservancy with Save Safaris - the details of the hunt - what to hunt and when to hunt will be determined by SubSailor74/admiral and Leon DuPlessis and Mike Paynes schedule. Only thing I want to shoot is a bush pig.

Will try and go to tholo to hunt with Jason

May buy

Blaser rifle but it is too political - Biebs and Clive Eaton like it - nearly everyone else hates it. There is no middle ground.

Got fitted for another VC - 375 flanged maybe. But then the beretta marc newsome side by side shotgun was pretty cool too.

Alaska for Brown bear in 2016-2017 maybe

Side note

I picked up my Buffalo table horn mount from TriState taxidermy and walked it out of the show

Great seeing and talking to Wayne LaPiere from the NRA at the show


Not one of the brave zim phs (there were a dozen) admitted to being professional hunters and killing animals when we were out after the show talking to non hunters.

Mike

Bought a free standing gun stand for four doubles that stand upright with their bellies showing. Made of walnut. Neat item to display at my office.

Dutch

Waiting till SCI

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Great seeing and talking to Wayne LaPiere from the NRA at the show

Agreed.
He is a very approachable gentleman & I believe he IS the man to run the NRA.

A V-C double in .475 No.2 Jeffery NE
A buffalo hunting video
A DSC Traditions ball cap

Looking forward to the hunt later this year with
Beretta682E.

Namibia hunt.

Safari Classics' "Buffalo Fully Loaded"
Swift Reloading Manual Number 2

Jackshit. I wasn't there.

New Zealand free range stags for Emmy and me and a week of photo/tour stuff there for all my girls (2017).

Meopta rifle scope, snap caps, & a knife. Also, more planning for my 2016 trophy bull elephant hunt in Namibia with Ndumo Safaris. Plus some future planning for a leopard hunt with Chifuti Safaris (with son & grandson). My wife said that's the least amount of stuff brought home from Dallas in years. I'm either getting older or I'm going broke - either way, not good.

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
New Zealand free range stags for Emmy and me and a week of photo/tour stuff there for all my girls (2017).

Who did you book with Judge? I started to book a free range stag myself over there.

Dippin Dots.

I bought a Warthog tusk necklace for the wife.

Already have a tuskless hunt in May.

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Originally posted by MacD37:
I bought a sauerkraut sausage dog, and a bottle of water for $15 dollars!

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Was that with the senior discount?
Cal

I thought the food on the convention floor was better than previous years. I bought two barbecue sandwiches and two beers for $35, the wife and I agreed they were pretty good. I bought some fudge at the booth that was selling jerky and fudge. It was pretty good fudge. Picked up some business cards from exhibitors and plan to make some purchases after the convention.

Rock Island Auction had a Winchester 21 I wanted. But I have to wait to bid.

My wife snagged a great elephant necklace from one of the custom jewelers.

One thing we liked was the pictures transferred on to metal. We will get that done.

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Originally posted by cal pappas:

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Originally posted by MacD37:
I bought a sauerkraut sausage dog, and a bottle of water for $15 dollars!

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Was that with the senior discount?
Cal

Damn Cal, I'm so old I forgot that a senior discount existed!

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Small bracelet - for my wife.
Leopard hunt - for my wife.
Leica illuminated reticle scope - for (you guessed it)

Got outbid on Namibia plains game hunts three times. And also on a tranq rhino hunt. Made me smile because the auctions went well.

Had the honor this morning at breakfast to spend a couple of minutes with Dr. Red Duke, at an adjacent table.

Fishing trips to Namibia, British Columbia and Northern Argentina. I'll add plains game to the Namibia trip and ducks to the Argentina trip, if possible.

I've never been a fly fisherman, but the lure of golden dorado and Canadian rainbow are enough to make me give it a shot.

http://i213.photobucket.com/al...7GP/Rigby/Clara2.jpg


We did not buy this year but we got to see it. I bought this London's Best in 275 Rigby for Clara for our 20th anniversary this year. When Marc took over as Director of Rigby, I knew I wanted to buy a Rigby rifle from him. He has a knowledge and passion for how things should be if they are going to carry the Rigby name.

Marc and I talked about how we wanted this rifle for about 2 years. We went stalking with Marc's father in Scotland year before last (great hunt!) and went to London to visit Rigby. Marc used a test gun to unknowingly get Clara's measurements for this rifle.

This picture shows the most beautiful person in my life holding the most beautiful rifle we have ever owned.

Lovely lady with a fine rifle.
Well done.

[quote]Dippin Dots.


I thought you told me her name was Dolly, Mike?


Dutch

Oh, I forgot


Dutch

Great seeing so many of the AR family at DSC! Thanks for coming by to say hello.

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Had the honor this morning at breakfast to spend a couple of minutes with Dr. Red Duke, at an adjacent table.

HT, I'm envious. Dr. Duke received the Capstick Award on Saturday night and his acceptance speech was unbelievable.

New takedown set from HS Precision...
Finalized an LDE adventure with Thierry Labat.

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(snip) Dr. Duke received the Capstick Award on Saturday night and his acceptance speech was unbelievable.

This.

My foot hurts from kicking so many tires this weekend.

Will likely end up doing a tuskless in '16.

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Originally posted by Richard T. Cheatham:

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Had the honor this morning at breakfast to spend a couple of minutes with Dr. Red Duke, at an adjacent table.

HT, I'm envious. Dr. Duke received the Capstick Award on Saturday night and his acceptance speech was unbelievable.

I didn't know this was going on or I sure would have made extra effort to be there for this.

Running the numbers to buy a buff hunt in either Zim or Moz. Other than that, a tanzanite ring for the wife.
kh

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Originally posted by TexKD:

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Originally posted by Richard T. Cheatham:

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Had the honor this morning at breakfast to spend a couple of minutes with Dr. Red Duke, at an adjacent table.

HT, I'm envious. Dr. Duke received the Capstick Award on Saturday night and his acceptance speech was unbelievable.

I didn't know this was going on or I sure would have made extra effort to be there for this.

+1

Buff hunt in Zim for 2016 with Dr Scott and our better halves.
Lots and lots of yellow/green/blue/pink pieces of paper sold by beautiful young ladies that proved to be worthless (raffle tickets).

Karl

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Lots and lots of yellow/green/blue/pink pieces of paper sold by beautiful young ladies that proved to be worthless (raffle tickets).

There was eye candy everywhere!
Not that I would notice, a friend told me about it.

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:

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Lots and lots of yellow/green/blue/pink pieces of paper sold by beautiful young ladies that proved to be worthless (raffle tickets).

There was eye candy everywhere!
Not that I would notice, a friend told me about it.

Right...bet you forked over some cash, too.

Karl

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Right...bet you forked over some cash, too.

Not this time. I was a rock! Except at the Arno Bernard booth.