Hey guys - awesome feedback!
So now I get to go shopping for gun
stuff: poor, pitiful me. Sounds like it might be time to burn up my $200+ in Cabela's points
I may or may not get to hunt this season because of work travel, but now I have plenty of time to plan for next year, gear up, scout, etc. I may also be moving away from this craphole known as the West Side (no offense to those who live here and like it, but it ain't me) and relocating to the Spokane area, so that'll certainly help.
BTW - though I have hunted in Maine, I haven't killed anything there. The vast majority of my hunting has been as a kid, in my home state of VT where - as my dad used to tell it - "fugging flatlanders" from NY and MA have pretty much flooded the woods with idiots (!) and chased all the big deer into NH, ME and Quebec
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Guy - I love lever guns. I bought the .35 in an antique store in Roanoke VA in 2002. It was hanging on the wall and still had the orginial tag attached: someone had bought it, put it in his closet, then died and the store got the rifle as part of the estate sale. I want to say it was a 1991 or 92 model, but I'm not sure. I paid $125.00 for it!
Seriously, thanks again guys!
Eric
