Would you buy this gun?

[British Red]

To be honest a Python's almost to valuable to shoot anymore.

Key word there "almost"

 

[santaman2000]

OK, here goes....against my better judgment....

Birds, they're taken on the wing. Shucking noise is negated as they're already on the move......

You specifically said "ducks." Noise is irrelevant it's the motion. Likewise with doves.

 

[santaman2000]

......Deer, well, some folks are happy to sit around and wait. I still hunt, which means I'm stalking.....giving the quarry every possible chance other than just unluckily walking near a tree I'm lazily sitting in.......

Rarely in a tree stand (although I'd love to try that too) We make 5 or 6 drives a day and every drive is from a different stand with fresh dogs.

 

[santaman2000]

.....Squirrel, back to deer......

Just ain't the a country boy does it.

 

[santaman2000]

.......We can go back and forth all day. The point is that an empty chamber will never accidentally shoot a companion. Can a full chamber make the same argument?.........

In 58 years and with dozens of hunting companions I've only even HEARD of one accident. And it was an idiot not checking what was behind his target (nothing to do with mechanical failure)

 

[santaman2000]

Key word there "almost"

That's the rub. I can't afford one anyway. The cheapest one I can find online (I haven't seen an actual one in the shops in over 15 years) is going for $2400; most are over $3000 and some near $10,000. Even my beat up Trooper is worth nearly $2000.

But how could anybody possibly own one without not shooting it!?

 

[British Red]

Just so.

A chap I knew had an authenticated Waterloo used Baker rifle. Not only did he shoot it, but he let me shoot it! Guns are meant to be shot. Hell hundred grand Purdeys are meant to be shot.

 

[mrostov]

Talking about a .357, my first deer rifle as a child was a single shot Uberti 1871 Rolling Block carbine chambered in .357mag. It was light enough and small enough that a child could handle it but it definitely had enough power to take down a deer.

Uberti every so often changes the calibers their 1871 carbine is offered in and they don't offer it now in .357mag. The new ones have a rubber buttpad, but mine had an old style brass buttplate.

Here a pic of a very similar looking Uberti 1871 Carbine.

 

[santaman2000]

Now that's a gun I'd buy!

 

[mrcharly]

Now that's a gun I'd buy!

Ditto. Love the heated steel effect on the receiver.