Great post Bob! I would say to the OP…great job getting your wife so involved as your hunting partner and having her want her own rifles tailored to her!!! You sir have my respect!!!If I said those terrible words, "can't have" to my wife, @Just Gina , she would start crying and say "I can't believe you would say such a thing to me!"
That's how "her" Rigby HS in 9.3x62 got cut down to fit herAnd it is very cool how deadly she is with it even shooting it off hand sometimes. Nothing like a gun that fits to build confidence shooting!
I've told the story on here before of her 404 Jeffrey. I had sold that rifle to her back in a previous life and she was struggling to shoot it. After we got together, we had it cut to fit her, mercury recoil tube installed in the stock, new soft pad, mounted a 1-6 30mm scope, and a Murray Leather ammo holder on the stock. The rifle is heavy when loaded with 5 rounds down and 6 on the stock. But she is not shy about having me or the PH or a Tracker carry it but happily carries it herself during a final stalk. She needs it on sticks or on a shoulder but claims she feels zero recoil when shooting it now. And she shoots it extremely well. She recently shot a giraffe through heavy brush. Made a great double lung shot plus a follow up. She shot a Tsessebe that dropped in its tracks and she asked if she missed because it just disappeared at the shot. I had to laugh and told her it was hit by the Hammer of Thor and was laying right there. Perfect quartering too shot on the point of the shoulder.
Get your wife a 375 H&H. Stay away from hot loaded ammo... Make it fit, install a mercury tube (easily pulled if not needed but really nice for practice) and watch her excell
Didn't say she couldn't have one, just not *mine.* She's already getting my 280AI.If I said those terrible words, "can't have" to my wife, @Just Gina , she would start crying and say "I can't believe you would say such a thing to me!"
That's how "her" Rigby HS in 9.3x62 got cut down to fit her
I've told the story on here before of her 404 Jeffrey. I had sold that rifle to her back in a previous life and she was struggling to shoot it. After we got together, we had it cut to fit her, mercury recoil tube installed in the stock, new soft pad, mounted a 1-6 30mm scope, and a Murray Leather ammo holder on the stock. The rifle is heavy when loaded with 5 rounds down and 6 on the stock. But she is not shy about having me or the PH or a Tracker carry it but happily carries it herself during a final stalk. She needs it on sticks or on a shoulder but claims she feels zero recoil when shooting it now. And she shoots it extremely well. She recently shot a giraffe through heavy brush. Made a great double lung shot plus a follow up. She shot a Tsessebe that dropped in its tracks and she asked if she missed because it just disappeared at the shot. I had to laugh and told her it was hit by the Hammer of Thor and was laying right there. Perfect quartering too shot on the point of the shoulder.
Get your wife a 375 H&H. Stay away from hot loaded ammo... Make it fit, install a mercury tube (easily pulled if not needed but really nice for practice) and watch her excell
Yea that's a fantasy World, referring to something as *mine* works for the wife, not the husband
@ActionBobYea that's a fantasy World, referring to something as *mine* works for the wife, not the husband
Sounds to me like you are going to end up with a *hers* and an *ours*.
@Bob Nelson 35Whelen can explain it. I just live it
Well, she is very likely to get a 375 H&H out of the deal, I will probably end up paying at least as much for that as I paid for my 404J, which is about 50% more than I've got in my 9.3, so there's that.Yea that's a fantasy World, referring to something as *mine* works for the wife, not the husband
Sounds to me like you are going to end up with a *hers* and an *ours*.
@Bob Nelson 35Whelen can explain it. I just live it
@ActionBobYea that's a fantasy World, referring to something as *mine* works for the wife, not the husband
Sounds to me like you are going to end up with a *hers* and an *ours*.
@Bob Nelson 35Whelen can explain it. I just live it
That one with the Echols stock...a little north of what I intend to spend.
I think my missus is more receptive to dangerous game if we are also able to retire to a proper dinner and bed every night. 10 days in the cold, wet Alaskan bush would be a bridge too far, I think.
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