It's true...JTG is officially OFF the market!

For a while now my girlfriend Julie and I have been talking about upgrading our status to "engaged" and the final step is now complete. Here is a picture of us taken in Alexandria.



Since this is a "big bore" forum, I guess I need to reveal the "big bore" component of our engagement. When we were talking about getting engaged last year (my first in Cairo and without her) she didn't think it was fair for me to spend the money on a ring for her and wear only a gold band myself. So, since she got her ring a few months ago, she was kind enough to purchase for me an "engagement rifle". Yes, it's a big bore...a Jim Gefroh manufactured 8-bore percussion Jaeger style front stuffer with our names and date inscribed on the sideplate opposite the lock. I got the photos yesterday of my completed rifle from Jim so I guess it's really official now. What's maybe just as exciting is that Julie and I are taking it to the Yukon this January. Hopefully a Wood Bison will be taken with the rifle and then after the hunt the future wife and I are going house shopping in The Territory.




Needless to say....LIFE IS GOOD !!!

Best,

John

Congratulations John!

And what a beautiful rifle. Can you tell us the ballistics? What shape is the bullet, and is it hardened in any particular way? Is it paper patched or is there some special lube?

Congratulation John! !

The only sentence in the world where you don`t get a pardon for good behavior is
marriage

Cheers John!

Congratulations from a right wing radical! Fine looking couple, and a great rifle too!

John,
Congratulations, I wish you the best.

Whoa, dude! Thank God you have the sense to marry this woman! Wish you both happiness and that more than husband and wife, you are always each other's best friend.

P.S. Gefroh does nice work, doesn't he?

John,
Cheers ! I wish you both the best.

Congratulations, she is very pretty.

JTG

Congratulations, you are obviously over chicked.

Will you be listed at Holland and Holland or at the DNC Giftshop?

Congratulations, my friend!

May you be blessed with a lifetime of happiness together!

Sto kalo!

George

Congratulations John! Like everyone is saying or thinking; You are definately marrying up!

John,
You did WELL. An engagement rifle? Now that should be an American Tradition.
Another congratulation to you and your lovely bride to be from the far right.
gene

Congratulations and it looks like you're both starting out on the right foot. Good luck to both of you.

JTG,
Congratulations. You are a handsome couple, but she adds more to that for sure.

Well done. Glad to see the old, time-honored Kentucky tradition of "Engagement Rifle" is alive and well. This happens in Kentucky whenever the father of the bride does not use an "Engagement Shotgun," instead he helps his daughter buy the groom-to-be a fine squirrel rifle.

You have a fine squirrel rifle there!

Going house hunting in the Yukon after the bison hunt? Very interesting proposition there too.

An engagement rifle, very nice. Your fiance has class!

Congratulations to you both.

Congratulations, John!

A beautiful lady bought you a beautiful rifle and agreed to marry you - what more could anyone ask for?

What a great pick! A woman who buys guns! She ain't hard to look at either!

CONGRATULATIONS

John
Congratulations

You are one lucky fellow Great looking rifle! Is Julie interested in hunting?


Cheers
/JOHAN

Congratulations to you both!

Congratulations!

Not only a woman that buys you rifles, but one that was willing to move half way around the world with you! She's definately a keeper!

WAY TO GO JOHN!!!!

Dang!

Congratulations to both of you. I hope you have a long life together and lots of kids, all of whom grow up to be right wing Republicans.

All the best to you both.

Let me add my congratulations as well JTG. Your bride to be is very pretty. Now, having said all that, let's not get sidetracked from our project which was to import some doubles and save ourselves a bunch of money. Stay focussed!
Peter.

Congratulations!

Na Zisete

Congratulations. Fantastic, absolutely beautiful. And the girl is pretty too.

Congratulations......................now for every pair of shoes she buys you get to have a new rifle !!

Nice looking gun to tell us more about ballistics etc.

John congratulations! you have certainly found the right lady.

My warmest congratulations on your good fortune! I see that you are planning on coming to Canada to buy a house in the Yukon, is this where you plan to live and work?

Anyway, a very lovely lady and you are a fortunate fellow, indeed!

Congratulations!

And may all your children be farther to the right than me .

lawndart

What a WIFE!
I hope you know her love language amd deliver!
Wonderful - what a girl and what a rifle!

Many happy years - No: A Lifetime of happiness in the wilderness!.

Congrats J-T-G! She's a definite keeper!

Are you actually moving to YK? I have family in Whitehorse (Mom, bro + his family), will look you up if you settle in the area.

Cheers,
Canuck

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Originally posted by JohnTheGreek:
It's true...JTG is officially OFF the market!

For a while now my girlfriend Julie and I have been talking about upgrading our status to "engaged" and the final step is now complete. Here is a picture of us taken in Alexandria.

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OK John, firstly congratulations.

But knowing the going rate for a wife in Egypt is 100 camels, I offer you, 105 camels, 20 goats, and 4 asses. But the rifle comes too. A package deal.

You be a rich man in Cairo and much admired with many camel amd asses.





Good luck, a pretty girl.

And she buys a nice rifle too. Lucky man.

Canuck,
I have driven through Whitehorse, Yukon 6 different trips up and down the Alcan Highway.

I was amused to see a Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise joint, packed with natives, first time through Whitehorse in 1985.

Is The Colonel still clogging arteries there?

And what was the name of that downtown Whitehorse sporting goods store that had the first BRNO ZKK 602's that I ever saw, in 1985?

congrats to the happy couple! now to the really serious stuff! does she have a sister hahaha!

well done JTG!

may you have many young hunters for you to tell your hunting stories too in your old age.

Congratulations, John. May you both enjoy a long and healthy life together.

DB

ill raise you 105 camels and see you 115 and see you 20 goats and raise you 25 and 5 asses.

ill even through in a egyption goose.


going onece....going twice.......

Thanks so much to all those who have replied to this thread. Rest assured, I truly DO know how lucky I am! Not many women would tolerate me but Julie does that and more.


As for the rifle....the standing sight is regulated for an 830 grain .820 diameter patched round ball cast from wheel weights and the folding leaf for a 1360 grain conical pushed by 10 drams (273 grains) of 2F. Ballistically, H&H used very slightly larger diameter 892 grain pure lead round balls from a 26" bbl and got 1654 f/s yielding 5232 f/# of energy. Using a 1257 grain conical they got 1500 f/s and 6273 f/#.

Be prepared gentlemen...Julie HAS A SISTER! Jenna is a 21 year old 6'1" brunette strongly resembling Angelina Jolie. The REALLY bad news is that she's A VEGAN! She and I have come to an agreement however...she doesn't give me a hard time about hunting and I don't somehow trick her into eating meat at holiday functions.

December/January will see Julie and I in the Yukon and hopefully buying a place up there. We will only be using it during the summers for now but I wouldn't mind an early retirement in the great white North. Residency is the only way I will ever be able to swing any sheep hunts in my life after all! While she doesn't hunt (yet), Julie definitely recognizes its significance to me so I am thankful for that.

For those wondering, our desire to properly educate future generations necessitates that the bridal registry be at ...

http://www.pathfinderpress.com/




Thanks again to all,


John

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Be prepared gentlemen...Julie HAS A SISTER! Jenna is a 21 year old 6'1" brunette strongly resembling Angelina Jolie. The REALLY bad news is that she's A VEGAN!

That's a bummer. A 6'1" version of Angelina Jolie would probably convert me though. Hmmm, wonder if already being a "vaginarian" would suffice?? (did I say that out loud )

Cheers,
Canuck