There are lots of geezers here who persist in our hobbies. As one of them, there are still things I'd like to try. I'll mention a couple and hope others will chime in with their own lists. Maybe members here have something they no longer need that others could use I'm hoping to find a kipplauf in a good hunting caliber and a Soper rifle. I missed the latter at Holt's, alas. There must be others out there.

I think that this will be my 666th post! Please don’t blame me for any sulphurous smell unless it results from my burning Black Powder.

On my bucket list is a .243 Savage 99 with a rotary magazine rather than the infernal detachable clip magazine (bearing in lawyer speak “USE ONLY CALIBRE MARKED ON BARREL”).

The design specs for the clip magazine appear to have included:- “When the rifle is being used from a high seat the magazine must, on closing the action, drop out to fall to the ground thus amusing several passing deer whilst it is retrieved by the user”

Also on my bucket list are several guns that I should never have sold, headed by a 12 bore Patstone hammer gun closely followed by a 20 bore Reilly A&D BLE.

50 more years hunting with my son and grandson,anything else seems pedestrian

Just looked at a couple of pictures. About four or five years ago, our son got about a ninety yard, lucky, shot on a gopher with a switch barrel 22 single shot that's a good hundred and forty years old now. As current keeper of that particular rifle, it was the first "game" that fell to that barrel, the other barrel has taken two or three averageish big game critters.

Fast forward to last summer, and I have a picture of the grand sons holding up slayed soup cans. Necessarily "hunted" with pistols of twelve rounds or greater magazines. The country is going tochit, but our daughter and son in law are bringing up the grandsons to be outstanding citizens of the US of A, and they have monster ear to ear grins in the picture. They certainly are not criminals, and when push comes to shove, I'll hand over all the fun shooter toys they handle, face to face, before this great nation is transformed forever. Never fear, some of them will be boring single shots, and maybe some doubles, just for shooting in the air, but they've been taught better than to do something so dangerous and irresponsible.

Best of luck on your searches, neither has ever "spoken" to me, but I'd slow down and take a good long gander at either. I never cared for how the Soper action works, but I like a quality break action singleshot, particularly if you can track one down with original, or appropriate, scope rings. Don't give up the search.

I've attained most guns that were on my bucket list. Now it's time to start weeding out the stuff I acquired earlier in life which now sits and gathers dust, and shooting the heck out of the bucket-listers!

I have just about everything on my list and then some. Finding the time to load and use what I have is getting harder all the time.

Likewise I need to weed out and reduce stock.

Since we are in fact older having survived much, we should be examples to our grandchildren. To paraphrase Robert Ruark, Nothing sounds quite like a shotgun or rifle, in the distance.
If you have the components, prepare some cases and keep both rust and wasps out of your barrels.







Khe Sanh {MACVSOG-5th SFG(ABN) } 1971-72


Let them vote, we will do the counting...Stalin

I'd like a superposed combination gun in 7 mauser and 16 past that i'd like to be able to hunt more

My bucket list certainly included one more good dog (coming this winter, with luck).

One of these days, I'd like to actually kill a woodcock instead of a popple tree.

A couple of new rifles are on the way. I did not know the Grant was on my bucket list until I viewed it.

Snap action sidelock Grant in 500-450 #1 Express





.303 British Best quality Gibbs Sporter

My bucket list is small, as is my areas of interest now. I used to want every type of 1800's American single shot cartridge rifle I could afford, and some I couldn't afford too! As time passed, I've concentrated on Marlin Ballard rifles, and Remington Rolling Block and Hepburn rifles exclusively. Sold off a bunch of others, but still have a few guns outside my interest that I've just had too long to want to let them go.
There's only maybe 4-6 rifles within my collecting/shooting interest now that I'd like to buy, but they're expensive and rare enough to likely never obtain without something else going away to fund them. I did recently pickup one bucket list rifle at the CGCA show in May when I bought my engraved #6 Ballard Scheutzen with a George C. Schoyen barrel. I've got several #6's, but none were the factory engraved versions, so that niche is filled now.

Wow couple nice rifles you got there.

Steve, the Grant looks like it came with some hollow point bullets. Is there a mold in there too? Pretty cool rifle.

The mold is there as is the hollow point insert for it. I may make a sold point insert as well. I really like this one, the snap action guns have always appealed to me. I have owned several sap-action shotguns, this will be my first rifle of that design. Wonderful quality on Grant guns from this period. A really nice cartridge as well, light bullets and heavy powder charges will make for a relatively flat shooting rifle.

Brent,

Top photo , left hand side of case, you can see the side of the mould - looks like a bronze mallet.

Opposite end of case you can see the core plug to form the hollow points on casting.

Very nice rifles SKB.

Very nice rifle, SKB. I have some 500-450 #1 Express brass surplus to my needs.When I had rifle (1881 Westley Richards), I played around with duplex loads and was getting close to 1900 fps.

Sold a "Griffin & Howe" 1903 Sporter in .22 Hornet... I've regretted it ever since... would love to have that rifle back.