If I had a rifle made up for the hunt of a lifetime and took a trophy elephant I'd want to keep the rifle to "jerk off" over for the rest of my life.

I've still got the rifles I took my first head of each type of game with, from rabbit to Cape Buffalo, with the exception of the BAR 270 I took my first pig with - I had to hand that in during the gun confiscation (euphemistically termed "the buy back" by the government).

mike