I was in the boat behind Bigum!! it was horible!!! we lost two boats and all our guns that day!!
We did save our high points though!!
My family became very close friends with an older guy after he lost his son a year earlier. He had a great piece of property where I could take my two young sons shooting smaller stuff. Lou loved guns and the outdoors. One day when he was coming over to our place for dinner, he got out of his truck and handed me an older, well used rifle. He had just passed on to me the gun he built in high school as a shop project in 1953. Imagine your kids asking to do that today! It is an Arisaka action Chambered to a 6.5 Roberts, but with the shoulder about .050 longer and the neck about another .100", a true wildcat. It was quite a challenge to figure out what it was and find a mix of dies to reload for it but we got it sorted out. Lou loaded handgun and his brother in law did the rifle stuff. He had long since lost track of the dies that they had for it. It had made many trips to Utah for deer in its lifetime as well as general pest control on thier farm in Brownsburg. For something a kid put together at around 15 years old, it is one "bubba" gun that I am very proud to own and enjoy. I refinished the stock to show off the nice grain and inlay details that were largely hidden by 60 year old finsish. The only downside is that at only 6# it really has a whallop to it. My youngest boy (12) says the kick hurts all way to his ankles! He still has a hard time putting it down though. This summer we are taking it out to Utah where Lou used to hunt with it to fire some of his ashes in the mountains as we lost our friend this past spring.
It could be construed that way by the ones who are paranoid, however my intentions were merely for discussion. You see lot's of people bragging about their everyday weapons that anyone can and does own, but never a thread about a high dollar gun someone owns, or the stories behind some of great-grandpa's .22s in the gunsafes. I have enjoyed reading some of the posts, and the boating accidents made it humorous.Questions like this always have some people thinking it's a ploy...which you never know. Might as well ask...what is the combo to your safe and what hours do you work
Remind me to never go boating with you guys... Awfully heavily armed for a day out on the water weren't you?? On second thought, maybe i should go boating with you guys, it sounds like a blast..
It's just too bad we were all in that same boat.