I shall be wearing out the shotgun barrels on chukars and waterfowl. I have kinda given up on quail as the babies run up to me in early Summer for handouts. I live secludedly in a deer/elk (& cougar)Wintering area. Those little quail are cute little buggers. Sometimes they even follow me into the solarium. But I'll keep the big barrels handy for coyotes. I shoot about 40 a year from my upstairs bedroom and my den. A friend is going to Africa this Summer so we'll see what he can talk me into when he returns. A combo bird/buff hunt and Tigerfish trip might be prettty cool. In the mean time I'll get used to the gun. Besides, you never know when the feds will introduce Wooly Mammoth or something similar.

I am Butch's wood supplier now and traded for another 470 this morning. It should be ready around the Vegas show, I imagine. It will have ultra fancy wood I supply myself and otherwise be a usual PH model with the beautiful Searcy case. This one will be for sale.