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21 May 2009, 07:27

JudgeG

Sweet Deal on a Beautiful Searcy

quote:
Originally posted by Josh A.:
450, thanks for the help. I am going to take both rifles with me, but I am going to Namibia. Kavango if I remember right. My wife is backing me up with her 243 Kimber super America. Do you think she should shoot solids or softs?

I'll keep working on the 450-400 and the 470. If I can get either up 4" I'll be OK.

j

If your wife is good looking, please have her shoot 55 grain varmint bullets as a back up. Then she can run like hell when you get squashed and she and I can split your doubles between us.

signed: Francis Macomber

21 May 2009, 18:41

Josh A.

Now Judge that is just wrong. I have equipped her 243 with a bayonet so that she can charge the ele if I get in trouble.

My wife is very attractive but I warn all of you that she is mean as a snake. On a safari with me, her and an elephant; she's the toughest of the three.

By the way, she has made it clear that she would never give the the Macomber treatment in the back of the head, she has always promised to beat me to death with a shovel.

j

21 May 2009, 23:46

N E 450 No2

Josh

What game is the wife Planning on shooting with the 243?

22 May 2009, 00:58

Josh A.

450, smaller plains game. Springbok, imppala, maybe kudu. I'll have to back her on anything very big, but she is pretty good about not shooting unless she is going to center-punch an animal.

Barnes triple shock bullets.

j

22 May 2009, 01:19

JPK

quote:
Originally posted by Josh A.:
450, thanks for the help. I am going to take both rifles with me, but I am going to Namibia. Kavango if I remember right. My wife is backing me up with her 243 Kimber super America. Do you think she should shoot solids or softs?

I'll keep working on the 450-400 and the 470. If I can get either up 4" I'll be OK.

j

Reducing velocity for your 470 and 450/400 loads will bring the POI up. So will a shorter front blade/bead.

22 May 2009, 03:09

Mortician

quote:
Originally posted by Josh A.:
You guys are kidding, right? It may not appeal to you in the way it looks, but that knot has nothing to do with the strength of the stock. Especially in English/Turkish as opposed to black walnut.

Lots of critics that are neither buying nor building that rifle.

Don't like it, pass on it. I'll bet it sells eventually, which means someone else voted with their money and not just typed.

Its ok, lots of room for different tastes.

j

Excellent assessment. There is nothing wrong with the piece of wood in question. Rather, I think it is stunning!!