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buckstix
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Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577
25/09/13 10:03 PM

Hello NitroX,

I couldn't agree with you more more. People always say, "If that gun could only talk." Well, every once in a while, they do talk to us.

Here, John Dickson & Son is telling us the specifications of this rifle when it was originally built on, or before, Oct. 20, 1868. A copy of the original ledger.

Translated:

You can almost see the recorder, dipping his large feathered quill pen into the inkwell and carefully scribing the information, line by line, for us all to read 145 years later.

And then, 32 years after Dickson built this rifle, the rifle talks to us again. Through the Scribe's hand quilled entry into Alex Henry's Ledger, when the gun was rebuilt 113 years ago.

Translated:

And then we have Capt. Malcolm McNeill himself, talking directly to us through his book. He tells us of using this rifle during his adventures with it in Africa. He tells how he killed 3 man-eating Lions, 2 with this rifle.

When you read, you can almost hear him speaking to you "out loud" in your mind.

What an adventure, and state-of-the-art hunting in 1901. On the backs of Camels? ? ?

I'm going to make a promise, that I will use this same rifle, to shoot any lions that terrorize the
citizens of the State of Wisconsin.

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"You never pay too much for something, you only buy it too early."

Edited by CptCurl (28/09/13 09:59 PM)

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THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	22/09/13 08:55 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	TH44	23/09/13 08:09 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	23/09/13 09:52 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	calpappas	24/09/13 07:23 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	NitroX	25/09/13 03:36 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	25/09/13 10:03 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	transvaal	26/09/13 12:31 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	26/09/13 07:05 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	transvaal	26/09/13 11:20 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	26/09/13 07:14 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	AkMike	26/09/13 10:05 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	26/09/13 12:30 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	26/09/13 10:13 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	26/09/13 07:19 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	26/09/13 08:36 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	26/09/13 11:49 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	27/09/13 12:56 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	27/09/13 09:25 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	NitroX	27/09/13 02:27 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	27/09/13 02:55 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	Huvius	27/09/13 10:42 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	27/09/13 11:16 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	CptCurl	28/09/13 10:11 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	28/09/13 11:38 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	CptCurl	28/09/13 11:53 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	29/09/13 12:03 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	CptCurl	29/09/13 12:25 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	calpappas	30/09/13 08:49 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	01/10/13 07:12 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	calpappas	01/10/13 08:55 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	AZDAVE	01/10/13 06:02 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	30/09/13 10:03 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	30/09/13 10:42 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	30/09/13 12:39 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	gatsby	02/10/13 12:10 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	04/10/13 12:17 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	kuduae	26/09/13 11:17 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	23/09/13 08:27 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	22/09/13 10:27 PM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	23/09/13 01:08 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	AkMike	23/09/13 01:49 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	23/09/13 03:24 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	AkMike	23/09/13 03:27 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	23/09/13 03:40 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	calpappas	23/09/13 04:51 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	AkMike	23/09/13 06:55 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	23/09/13 06:57 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	buckstix	23/09/13 07:16 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	500Nitro	23/09/13 05:16 AM
Re: THE SEARCH IS OVER - I FOUND A GREAT 577	rigbymauser	23/09/13 04:51 AM

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