in a recent "trophy hunting" magazine. He took a new custom revolver by Hamilton Bowen which is Bowen's custom version of Elmer Keith's #5. It takes Bowen a year to build and costs $15,000! This is not a post on what you think about Pierce or Bowen. What do you think about hunting with a new custom gun that costs that much? Similar to Boddington taking his new Rigby into the jungle for bongo. Foolish? Gutsy? Wish it was you?

YUKON DELTA...Some people have a fat bank account and the cost of a custom gun doesn't matter that much to them.People like me(poor folks)would be afraid to get so much as a scratch on it and therefore it would never leave the safe except to occasionally go to the range perhaps....For that matter,I couldn't even consider 15k for a firearm of any sort to begin with....It all boils down to personal wealth.Everything's relative.

Thats a lot of money to shoot an old Lion out of a tree or off a rock, and the caliber is great for knocking the Lion out of the tree and all over those expensive dogs....

We allways shot them in the heart with a 22 solid...they would stay up until they died, then fall out of the tree. A between the eyes shot usually worked....

At any rate the Lion needs to be plumb dead before he lands in the middle of a bunch of $1000 to $3000. dogs, and I bet they are higher than that these days, but havn't kept up on them...

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

I suppose the fancy custom revolver makes for good copy. In reality wouldn't a run-of-the-mill Blackhawk 44mag kill the cat just as dead?
Or perhaps the cost of the weapon kills the cat to a higher degree of dead.
Hmmmm....

Later
ZM

Perhaps I should mention that Pearce doesn't even really talk about the pistol except in a small sidebar article. The pistol is certainly not the focus of his article. It's almost mentioned casually. My eye was drawn to it though like a moth to a flame.