One of the best parts of owning a custom is taking it afield.

Let's see some pictures!

Here are a few from my fall:

My wife and I had pretty much written the day off when six grizzlies worked their way through the river bottom we were looking over.

If you look close, you can actually see four of the six in the middle of this photo:



Needless to say, deer were blowing out everywhere as the bruins passed through. I was lucky enough to connect on this buck, but questioned the wisdom once I got in the willows to go collect him!



Knowing the bears were still in the area, we were "eager" to get the buck boned-out and away from the carcass!



Now let's see your photos from 2015!

I agree.Only when a custom is taken afield does it becomes worthy.The more trips it makes the more you feel you got your money's worth.The more stories it has to tell too.

LRx I love that No. 1, and congrats on your buck!

This year I was fortunate to have a nice 8 point buck step out into the field I was hunting in northern Minnesota. It was the first deer I saw after four days of sitting in a foxhole I'd dug and was also the first mature buck I'd seen after over a decade of deer hunting. I took it down with a 130 grain Gameking, sent from 210 yards by the Winchester .270 I stocked a couple years ago.



I used the Winchester to shoot my first deer when it was still a basic Ranger model .270, lent to me by my cousin, and now this buck is my fifth deer with it.

Beautiful rifle, and a great buck. That's the stock you worked on at Steve's, right?

I cut my teeth hunting whitetails in the swamps of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; I know all too well how hard-won a mature deer can be in that country! Nice job Evan!

Great stuff guys.

Two 404 Jeffery chambered Mausers in Burkina Faso.

Beautiful rifles, Wink. I'm contemplating a 404 build, tell us more about them!

I enjoy hunting with some of the older custom rifles like this Adolph Minar 1903 Spfld



Or my 303 Lee Speed

9.3x62 built on a K98. Yes, very over gunned.

That does it. I've put it off long enough. Gonna have to look for a nice Lee-speed. Lol

Maybe it's a factor of my getting older but some of the older classics are wonderful to hunt with.

My Wundhammer that I bought from the Petrov collection is slim, light, well banalized and superbly accurate. So I took it on a two week river float, hunting trip down the Colvill river last spring.

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Originally posted by LRx:
Beautiful rifles, Wink. I'm contemplating a 404 build, tell us more about them!

They were both built by Duane Wiebe. One is mine and the other belongs to another AR member. We hunted together in Burkina Faso (oops, it may have been 2014 and not 2015 as your thread requests).

Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on wet rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

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Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

Are you for real?

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Originally posted by Chuck Nelson:

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Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

Are you for real?

Couldn't agree more! Use these rifles, not hide them away or carry a pillow into the field. They are a tool to be used just like all the tools in my garage, except for the handsaw that was signed by Norm!

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Originally posted by LRx:
Beautiful rifle, and a great buck. That's the stock you worked on at Steve's, right?

I cut my teeth hunting whitetails in the swamps of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; I know all too well how hard-won a mature deer can be in that country! Nice job Evan!

Yes that is the rifle, and thanks!

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Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

The rifle had been stuck in a stuffy gun room for almost a century and seemed happy to be outside riding on top of the kayak in that yellow, floating, gun case but when it got wet it really seemed to like either laying on the rocks in the sun or hanging out by the fire with my son's Savage M-99




But it also liked playing in the sand




Which didn't seem to hurt it at all



My Lon Paul custom 30-06, which I have shown here before, thrives on a lot tougher treatment

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The rifle had been stuck in a stuffy gun room for almost a century and seemed happy to be outside riding on top of the kayak in that yellow, floating, gun case but when it got wet it really seemed to like either laying on the rocks in the sun or hanging out by the fire with my son's Savage M-99

Love it! Fine guns deserve to be hunted with.

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Originally posted by Wink:

They were both built by Duane Wiebe. One is mine and the other belongs to another AR member. We hunted together in Burkina Faso (oops, it may have been 2014 and not 2015 as your thread requests).

Ah, Wiebes...no wonder I admired them so much. And no worries on the year...I just like seeing field photos of fine rifles!

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Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on wet rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

You never hesitate to affirm & satisfy that you are indeed the stupidest Mother Trucker on the interweb.

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Originally posted by ChickenNose:

quote:

Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on wet rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

You never hesitate to affirm & satisfy that you are indeed the stupidest Mother Trucker on the interweb.

pretty strong and quite rude words coming from someone who has only been here a few months!

Phil,
Who makes the floating gun case and how waterproof is it?

I have a zip up case that was float tested once, but let water in along the zipper and was tough to get dried out.

Also, I admire the vintage optics your rifles wear.

Great pics too!

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Originally posted by lindy2:

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Originally posted by ChickenNose:

quote:

Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on wet rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

You never hesitate to affirm & satisfy that you are indeed the stupidest Mother Trucker on the interweb.

pretty strong and quite rude words coming from someone who has only been here a few months!

Membership dates aren't birth dates.

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Originally posted by lindy2:

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Originally posted by ChickenNose:

quote:

Originally posted by Savage_99:
Do I see a fine looking rifle laying on wet rocks?

If so it's quite bad. I hope I am wrong.

Also showing that rifle near that tiny boat infers that somehow the rifle went on the tiny boat?

You never hesitate to affirm & satisfy that you are indeed the stupidest Mother Trucker on the interweb.

pretty strong and quite rude words coming from someone who has only been here a few months!

Don't worry - you're in the running and you consistantly reinforce the fact the we suffer you in tandem with Savage99.

Had fun hunting with this rifle this year even though I didn't get to take anything with it. It's a 7mm Mag built on an FN action, metal work done by Mark Penrod and stocked by John Mercer.








And here's dad's Clayton Nelson 7x57.

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Originally posted by Jmbrown:
Had fun hunting with this rifle this year even though I didn't get to take anything with it. It's a 7mm Mag built on an FN action, metal work done by Mark Penrod and stocked by John Mercer.








And here's dad's Clayton Nelson 7x57.

Wow. Are those ever nice!

Thanks! Dad and I are pretty proud of those two rifles.

Great shot of the knife and the rifle next to that Classic Filson plaid hunting coat.

Beautiful stuff.

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Originally posted by lindy2:
Great shot of the knife and the rifle next to that Classic Filson plaid hunting coat.

Beautiful stuff.

Thanks! There's just something about hunting with nice classic stuff that makes the experience that much more enjoyable.

Damn, I don't know how to rotate the pic. This is a Peruvian small ring in 250-300. Jim Kobe stocked it with Roger Vardy wood.

I would love to have a Filson plaid jacket and one of those astounding modern custom rifles. Unfortunately, I have to be content with my tattered Utica Duxback plaid jacket and my more than tattered 1934 John Oberlies 03 30-06 that will be with me for a while.

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Originally posted by lowgun:
I would love to have a Filson plaid jacket and one of those astounding modern custom rifles. Unfortunately, I have to be content with my tattered Utica Duxback plaid jacket and my more than tattered 1934 John Oberlies 03 30-06 that will be with me for a while.

Any chance we can see the Oberlies?

Thanks,
John

Nice brush country buck with my Sterling Davenport 7x57.