10 December 2004, 11:03
500grainsRe: Buffalo raffle caliber restriction 45/70 POLL
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500grains,
You know, if memory serves me, you were also dead set on the first raffle. Not legal, stunt hunt, and wouldn't sell.
I don't care what gun you take. If you can't use a 45/70, by all means don't. I didn't put this feeler to start another 45/70 pissing contest. Just wanted to possibly get a Raffle going so some lucky person, me hopefully, could win and hunt a buff.
I mentioned in my first post, as well as to Saeed my intentions, and it has gotten to where it's not fun any longer.
My suggesttion to you is, put it together yourself, and do whatever it takes to put on.
Roger QSL
I intended for my question to be civil, but apparently it caused offense.
10 December 2004, 19:36
ceweWhy don�t we make it a 2:1 hunt where one guy uses a 45-70 and the other any other caliber except the 45-70. Then we post the results and then we start the pissing contest!
Joke!

ErikD put it nicely: To each his own.
11 December 2004, 07:11
CanuckMy comment was made tongue-in-cheek (I guess I forgot the winky graemlin) but in all seriousness, c'mon 500grains, with your history on this subject you know full well how all of your posts re: a 45/70 raffle will be taken, whether you intended it that way or not. You cannot walk away from your past.
It'd be like trying to take you seriously if you attempted to say something civil about Craig Boddington. It might be genuine but it wouldn't come off that way to anyone who has read your previous posts on the subject.
No offence intended, but you made your bed....
Cheers,
Canuck
11 December 2004, 07:46
500grainsCanuck,
It seems I am serving as a lightning rod for pent-up feelings some people have. There is no reason for to have a tizzy about whether a load which is the ballistic equivalent of a 45-70 could be used on a raffle buffalo instead of an actual 45-70, but that it the question at hand. You can read something more into it if you want to. By the way, if I had to comply with a 45-70 caliber restriction, it would be with a trapdoor Springfield.
As for the CB article, do you disagree with his caliber recommendation?