However, I bought the very-expensive Big Horn Armory Model 89 five years ago, celebrating what was intended to be a great business direction (I'd have made $1,050,000 had I taken the 'employee of the hospital' options - which would require what I consider gross violations of the Hippocratic Oath - instead I've made maybe a net of $75,000 total over those five years....
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However, I'd also bought a used Marlin 336 in 35 Remington years ago, and never hunted with that ideal deer cartridge either....I always just default to my Marlin 1894 in 44 Mag, just like when I go to certain restaurants I always order what I know is good there, and don't 'experiment' with new dishes. Shame on me.
So here are the choices I faced.... Note the 500 S&W BHA 89 levergun is actually slightly smaller than my 44 Mag Marlin 1894....so no excuse not to use it, right....?
Then, on Thanksgiving day (granted, our family will get together tomorrow due to work schedules), in the midst of printing out over 240 pages of bank-statements, and re-doing a 40-page spreadsheet for the fiftieth time, I just got 'cabin fever', and HAD to go out and shoot SOMETHING... Fortunately I live in a place where I can do just that - if I owned one, I could shoot a 50 BMG any time I want, right in my back yard. So, my choices were:
Shoot a gong, with:
. a) my carry-gun
. b) one of my 44 Magnums
. c) some 'thumper' category rifle - perhaps my Garand, or my 500 S&W...
Shoot some Tannerite:
. (nah...too much work, plus as genuine Rednecks, we'll shoot that tomorrow at the fambly get-together...
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Do a Mag-Dump:
. a) my shorty-AR - nah, I just put a 300 Blk barrel on it, and don't have that much 300 Blk to waste.
. b) my Mini-14 - haven't shot that in awhile, but don't want to waste any 223 ammo as I'm low on it.
Decisions, decisions....
So I figure I need to check my deer-stand anyway, if I'm going to hunt this weekend, and I'll just take one of my 'deer rifles' along to get used to it, and get the feel of the stand/gun/weather and so on.
Since I don't have time to really 'hunt', and need to get back to the spreadsheet garbage, I don't bother to get out my 'hunting clothes', but just put on the coveralls I have handy, and the boots in the furnace room. I do grab my orange cap, and out I go. I decide to take the Big Horn Armory rifle, since I feel guilty owning such a great firearm, and not using it for anything important. Besides, I don't plan on actually taking a shot anyway, especially one that would need the extra 'reach' of the 35 Remington trajectory.
I go out to where my stand is....or was....and realize I'd moved it this spring....I think I know where....but now I've made all sorts of noise in the dry leaves, and going where I didn't need to go anyway....so I mosey towards the new stand site, and decide it might be better to sing and make noise, since 'sneaky' people scare deer more than dumb/noisy people. (...and I'm really good at being dumb and noisy...
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I get to the stand, climb in, making all sorts of noise, as I have to slough a bunch of crackly dry leaves that are stuck in the mesh seat off, and I finally settle into place.
After 20-30 minutes of being tempted to see what a Grizzly Big-Bore factory 370 grain hard-cast flat-point at 1500 fps would do to an annoying squirrel or two[
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Now, back to the spreadsheets, but with a much better attitude...!
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