Knives and Rifles

An Ubertti 1873 in .357 mag and an engraved Horsewright Tapadero with camel bone.

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A Browning copy of a Winchester 1895 in .30-06. Rolled a running pig at about 300 yards with this a couple of weeks ago. Horsewright Stainless Vaquero, also with camel bone, a prototype which I carried as an EDC for quite a while.

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With a Ruger Vaquero in .45 Colt, in an oak carved Horsewright Loop holster.

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Henry .22 with a Horsewright Gordo in ramshorn. Stupid crazy wood on this $500 .22.

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This time a stainless Gordo with ironwood.

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Jon Langenfeld said:
Love the picture, truly a rifle I would love to own. How long have you been hunting with your Legend?
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Hi Jon, greetings from Garfagnana Toscano. And welcome to BF. It was a surprise to see you post here. It’s a great forum. Stick around.

My Echols has been used on Vermont Russian Boar and Texas Whitetails since about 2004 or so. Since we emailed last I’m thinking about taking it to Namibia for another plains game hunt. Or maybe a Springbok cull. Iris and I started talking about it this morning.

I wish I had it here. It’s Cinghiale season in Tuscany. I hear gunshots in the hills every morning. Some rifle cracks; some shotgun thuds.

I can only guess the shotgun fire is from local farmers or chicken owners shooting Red Fox. They’re all over. The garden of the house we’re in has a lot of green fig trees that are overloaded with ripe fruit dropping every day. Fox scat filled with fig seeds is all over the grounds.

We actually saw a wild boar (or sow) a few days ago north of here right in a small town called Vagli Sotto. The villagers must be feeding it, because it came right up to us looking for food.

By the bye, I brought a full knife roll with me including the Shiro F3 pictured above. The outdoor fireplace is where I’m doing most of our cooking. So my @Mike McCarter Kephart is seeing daily wood prep. Two Laconico Keens are our “steak” knives and Hengelo_77 Hengelo_77 ’s beautiful paring knife is on the cutting board at all times. An MBK Laconico EZC is in my pocket every day. Convenient little thing.

I even brought a Sharpmaker for touch ups.

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Sorry for the link. I’m having trouble posting an image from Imgur through my iPad.

Keep the posts coming, guys. There’s a lot of really nice hardware being posted.

I love lever actions almost much as bolt guns. I learned to shoot on a Winchester 9422 at age 12, and the first rifle I bought was a Model 94 in 30-30 when I was 16.
 
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The wife manning the parapets, fending off highly trained bands of tactical ground squirrels:

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Her knife and sheath, grey water buffalo with turquoise stitching both sheath and belt. The handle of the knife is stag carved bone in pacific blue:

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marchone said:
I’ve long been told recoil is cumulative. Sigh.


.375 H&H?
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Marchone, you are correct it is a Sako Bavarian chambered in 375 H&H mag. The recoil is not as bad as you might think after I shortened the stock to fit me and added a limb saver recoil pad. I have sat at the bench and put 20 rounds through it with just mild bruising. Some may call bullshit but I have shot my 300 win mag with the 375 and find the 300 more uncomfortable go figure.
 
Stumpy said:
Some may call bullshit but I have shot my 300 win mag with the 375 and find the 300 more uncomfortable go figure.
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.....Not I !!! As you can see from the pics above I have both a .375H&H and a .300win. The .375 is hands down the more pleasant of the two to use !! Owned both rifles since I was a teenager and my view on that has not varied. Field shooting the .375 is actually quite enjoyable. The .300 has a sharp whip hit to it that is not pleasant. Off the bench the .375 is certainly not entirely pleasant but that is not what either rifle is built for.
 
Stumpy said:
Marchone, you are correct it is a Sako Bavarian chambered in 375 H&H mag. The recoil is not as bad as you might think after I shortened the stock to fit me and added a limb saver recoil pad. I have sat at the bench and put 20 rounds through it with just mild bruising. Some may call bullshit but I have shot my 300 win mag with the 375 and find the 300 more uncomfortable go figure.
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Andy the Aussie said:
.....Not I !!! As you can see from the pics above I have both a .375H&H and a .300win. The .375 is hands down the more pleasant of the two to use !! Owned both rifles since I was a teenager and my view on that has not varied. Field shooting the .375 is actually quite enjoyable. The .300 has a sharp whip hit to it that is not pleasant. Off the bench the .375 is certainly not entirely pleasant but that is not what either rifle is built for.
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Yep to both of you. In my experience the recoil of a lighter .375 H&H round is more of a push than the snap of most any 300 Win Mag load. I’ve always thought of it as the difference an extra 500 FPS makes.

I don’t reload, but if I really wanted to I’ve often thought of slowing down a .300 Win Mag with a 180g bullet to 2500 FPS or so. But as rare as it is to fire one in the field, it’s just hasn’t been worth it to me. Factory Nosler Partitions will do anything I’ve been interested in.

I once owned a .338 Win Mag. The first time I fired it off a bench I put it down pronto and jumped to my feet just staring at it. I then proceeded to put 75 rounds through it that afternoon. Never again. The 300 is enough for me, thank you.

I know Jon has a Legend in .416 Rem. Now that’s a boomer.
 
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If were going big, lets go BIG! .700 H&H double rifle built by my friend Butch Searcy of All American Double Rifle Co.

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See the empty casing next to that 9" oal knife? I was holding the rifle (about 25 lbs worth, seemed like) while Butch and another friend were setting up this shot for a magazine article. When I asked him what the rifle was worth and he told me I didn't want to hold it anymore. I handed it back to him. To Butch anything under a .500 is a "little" gun.
 
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