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In fact, as a matter of interest, I recently stumbled across the rifle I owned at that time in Champlin's "Museum". I wonder who owns this fine rifle now? Here are the links, for those who are interested:

Link to Champlin "Museum" page 1

Link to Champlin "Museum" page 2

Looking at the pictures makes me wonder why I let that baby go. The engraving was about as good as game scenes, with oak leaves and acorns, can get.

Ah, but gun trading. . .

Best regards,
Curl

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Captcurl, I almost bought that rifle last year! I suspect that the rifle once had a set of shot, or cape gun barrels, based on the bird dogs, and pheasent in the engraveing!

As far as kicking the brass into the weeds, that is only when hunting, I always reload the brass used in practice, or stump shooting. When hunting Cape Buffalo with my Westley Richards 500/450NE, I always kick the brass into the weeds, in the heat of battle. In that case, the brass is the last thing on my mind! If a tracker picks it up so much the better, but I have better things to do with my attention! In my 9.3X74R, I always reload all the RWS brass, unless it is lost in the vines and briars, where I hunt hogs. It just seems silly to try to see where the brass goes, rather than keep your eye on the target at hand, especially if the animal doesn't go down with the first two shots!

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