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As the title says, it's up to you to provide content for this post, either in the comments or on your own blog if you feel so inclined (in which case, please ping this entry with a big fat trackback to let me know. Or drop me an email if you believe trackbacks to be worse of a Devil's scheme than President Shrub's Evil Damninistration)Here's the pitch: my birthday is coming up, and since I'm hitting a new landmark in the History of Me — a two numbers figure with a zero at the end — I'm working out various ways to mark the event.
In the "it's now or never: live the instant" Department, I'm considering either taking a jump out of a perfectly working airplane, or a ride in a Lamborghini Murcielago — behind the wheel, and on a race track of course.
While that should fulfill my need for adrenalin, I'm also looking for something that will last longer, and I feel like offering me a boomstick to mark the occasion for the years to come — assuming the chute will open properly.
So here's where I put you to work: I'd like suggestions.
Guidelines as follow:
- I'm more of a rifleman than a pistolero, so let's leave handguns aside.
- It doesn't have to be a luxurious, expensive boomstick with gold and engravings all over the place. I'm a simple guy with simple needs(1), not one of Saddam Hussein's degenerate sons. Good rifle, at a good price for good value is what I'm looking for.
- Closely related to the previous point: I'm looking for a rifle that I will actually use, not just place on display in the living room. By "use", I mean (mostly) hunting big game by all sorts of weather (in a forest, and frequently thick and thorny underbrush environment). Usually at close range.
- Big game means adapted caliber. It doesn't have to be magnum all the way (as 1. Most European big game is not too big and 2. Size is not everything, I believe in bullet placement) but .22 is definitely a bit small and a bit slow.
- Rifles, not shotguns. Have enough shotguns, thank you.
- I like wood as much as composite. I like bolt as much as lever action. And semi-auto. Okay, I have just a slight preference for bolts.
Oh and if you don't know jack about guns, I'm thinking of having a few words engraved on my Rifle of the New Decade. Any idea?
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2621 - Grimmy
Grimmy Where I'm at.
Inscription submission:
"Well, Hello!"
or
"I See You!"
2622 - canker
canker
W E Henley's Invicta has always inspired me:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud:
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
Of course it's far too long, but how about the last two lines as an inscription? Or, if you're feeling particularly antsy, what about `My head is bloody, but unbowed'?
Whatever you decide, have a very happy birthday!
2623 - Blinky
Blinky Omaha, Nebraksa, USA
Looks like there is some good info here. If you can't get an SKS, I like the 700 also.
As far as getting it engraved, go with an old classic : ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
2624 - Iwo Gina
Iwo Gina Maryland
Why not borrow another phrase from the Army of Darkness? After all, it is a "Boomstick" you're getting.
How about:
"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."
or:
"Hail to the king, baby."
or:
"Klatu Verata Nicto"
or my personal favorit:
"Oooh! That's gotta hurt!"
2626 - Opus Rex
Opus Rex
Happy birthday, DF! Enjoy the jump!
Here is a selection of some rifles I use professionally. [url=http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn13-e.htm]http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn13-e.htm[/url]
2627 - B-52 GUNNER
B-52 GUNNER
How about a little latin:
Si vis pacem, para bellum
2628 - Grimmy
Grimmy Where I'm at.
'Para bellum' sounds like it should mean 'two southern ladies'
Para belli would be two southern chicks in a really bad mood.
If you want a kind of inscription that's a bit more than just a tag line, how about:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Or, you could shorten it to something like: With such as this, men oppose tyranny.
2629 - Gozer the Carpathian
Gozer the Carpathian
*Chuckles*
True enough Frogman. It is so futurisitic looking they're actually using modified versions of it for the new Battlestar Galactica TV show. So I can see how you might not want to use it. Still isn't a .45 enough to take down wild bore at Carbine ranges?
Oh, and thanks for the compliment on my site. I thought gozers.com was easier for folks to spell than gozerthecarpathian.com :D
2630 - B-52 GUNNER
B-52 GUNNER
Si vis pacem, para bellum translated means:
"If you seek peace, prepare for war".
I've always have been fond of this phrase.
2631 - Papa Ray
Papa Ray West Texas
Well, I see I'm late to the party again...dang
Anyway, happy birthday and jumping from that airplane sounds the best to me. I did it one time on a dare back long ago. It was a blast.
Now to your other question. Go here: http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/show_inventory.php?catID=6&subcatID=55 and look around.
I have one of the Legendary Lawmen .30-30 caliber. I paid a little less as you might guess, in 1978. It is a sure shot, really nice weapon. It feels like it was built for me. I have put thousands of rounds thru her without a problem or complaint.
I bet somewhere on that webpage is one that will fit you to a t.
Papa Ray