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Not bad at all. Never mistake motion for action. | |||
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I still do and love the BP cartridge guns. I am currently waiting on a Shiloh .50-90 Hartford from Bill Goodman | |||
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Pacecars, I believe Bill Goodman may just be the antichrist ...  There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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He has cost me a lot of money! I really should take him off speed dial, lose his email address and block his website! Of course he has saved me a lot of time | |||
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pacecars, you and I are in the same boat....except I'm waiting on a 45/70....to replace the one I traded last year for a Alex Henry double .450 express. DRSS | |||
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Mine should be in around mid June. This is my 5th one from him and the 2nd new one ordered through him, the other 3 were used in excellent shape. | |||
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Mine should have been ready this month, I ordered it in October. this will be my 3rd Shiloh. Bought my 1st one new in 1992 from Hunters Rendezvous, the second I ordered through Bill in 2009 and now this latest one. Cant seem to be without a Shiloh for too long. Great rifles. DRSS | |||
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I love them. I wish I had the money to keep them all. I want to try a Ballard but that is all I need is another expensive gun | |||
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Um.....what does need have to do with our weakness? Go for it while you can still enjoy it. DRSS | |||
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Nice, I've killed two deer and a pig with your old 8-Bore rifle, the first deer was a basket racked 10pt that needed culling, butcher buddy called and ask me if I ran a rock bar through that buck ' ] He has of course seen 12ga shotgun slug holes, holes blown through deer with high velocity rifle fire, but hadn't seen a clean hole cut that big, after I told him what I hit the buck with, he said, son you aint right! | |||
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LOL....good on you Jerry! I've often wondered what that 8 bore had been up to. Glad to hear you're using it the way it was meant to be used. DRSS | |||
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You bet degoins, the buck mentioned earlier was facing West when I hit him though the shoulders firing dew North, one would think when he fell I'd be looking at his hooves, I was looking at his backline, that 8 Bore ball bowled him over, not a twitch. The doe was hit at 15 yards through the shoulder on a hard quartering in angle, ball exited right ham out back, again, drop, not a twitch, the pig got knocked over at 30 yards with a through and through double shoulder hit, his back legs bicycled 100 mph for a few seconds, he never got up. I really need to take that thing up North for a Bull Moose hunt, I don't believe even an 1800 lb Bullwinkle could contain one of those balls.  | |||
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I have decided to sell most of my double rifle collection. 10 sold last year and more to go this year. I am retaining 1-2 nitro doubles and several more black powder hammer and under lever doubles. I really prefer the bpe doubles and if I needed to makea choice the bpe would get the nod. While not an express rifle, this summer I will take a Rodda 4-bore for buffalo and am toying with the idea of bringing a .50-95 Winchester model 1876 for plains game (engraved on the barrel is a note that Holland and Holland put on the sights and regualted it). Cheers, Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Cal, you are a fortunate guy to have -- and to have had -- such wide experience with the doubles. I certainly understand your fondness for the BP doubles. Whenever I feel down, I dig out old Samuel Baker's "Wild Beasts and Their Ways." Dependable tonic for what ails. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Great stories Jerry!! By all means go kill a moose with that bad boy.....and of course give us report with pictures. When I had that rifle, I found it easy to carry and not bad at all to shoot...even from the bench. DRSS | |||
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