Thread: Mundane Hunt Made Better

Well, I just hit the 3/4 of a century mark and struck out in my home state of Nevada's big game tag drawings...zip...nada.

So, I bought some non-resident Montana doe whitetail tags, 4 of them in 3 different regions of that enormous state. Popping WT does is not much of a challenge, but the alfalfa fed young ones are great on the plate, and my freezer is about empty. Montana has some of the best upland bird hunting anywhere, and I am bird-crazy...have been since I was 7.


Since I'm old, and I don't have much hunting left in my future, and after all...these are DOES for kris-sake, and it'll be a combination excursion 1,200 miles out/1,200 miles back but with added side trips to see old friends and new places that will be about 2,800 miles traveled altogether I NEEDED this gun.

A trip like this with deer, sharptail grouse, Hungarian partridge, and pheasants to hunt was a perfect excuse...uuuhhh...reason to get a new-to-me drilling for the safari. My good friend and gundrug dealer and importer said he found a drilling in the back of one of his safes that had been there for 10-12 years, forgotten. He offered it to me for his cost back then, $1,200.00 US.

It's a Kreighoff Trumpf Primus Dural in 16 gauge and 7X57R with a 2.5-10 Zeiss Z rail, IR on top! It's my 3/4 century birthday present to myself and will be my go-to gun this trip, backed up by my Kreighoff Trumpf Dural 16 & 7X65R drilling with a Zeiss 1.5-6 on top. It's taken a lifetime to acquire guns like these and my others; I'm anything but wealthy and swapped and traded and upgraded for a lllooonnngg time to get a stable of fine combination guns. They represent my life's savings. Both drillings have full length Zimmerman 22 Hornet insert barrels for prairie dog shooting if there's time.

Trumpf Primus Dural 16 & 7X57R:




Trumpf Dural 16 & 7X65R: I got it 10 years ago from the same guy. It came in the same lot with the Primus Dale imported but forgot about.

beautiful....now you get out and enjoy yourself.....your still young enough to do so..well you arent dead yet so no excuses..... if you dont give up till you die....you wont die till you give up... keep up the good fight.

Any hunting is better than no hunting at all so get out there and fill those freezers up. Those are very nice looking drillings you have there, both in very capable calibers.
Good luck this season.

Happy (belated) Birthday.
I too have spun around the Sun 75 times now (July 27th).
Wow, we both must have built up some awesome 'Cosmic Air Points' by now.
Enjoy your new gun, 'tis lovely.
I managed to buy a new Ruger 10-22 trigger spring (yeah, just the spring).
Hopefully we will get a good story from you on your return.

that drilling is a thing of beauty

Originally Posted by Grey Kiwi

Happy (belated) Birthday.
I too have spun around the Sun 75 times now (July 27th).
Wow, we both must have built up some awesome 'Cosmic Air Points' by now.
Enjoy your new gun, 'tis lovely.
I managed to buy a new Ruger 10-22 trigger spring (yeah, just the spring).
Hopefully we will get a good story from you on your return.

A Happy belated Birthday to you, also, my friend!

You lucky bugger luv2safari. That's a beaut gun.

And a great post too. Hope I'm still going at 75...

Originally Posted by Copelli

You lucky bugger luv2safari. That's a beaut gun.

And a great post too. Hope I'm still going at 75...

You'll make it, no problem.

Just hunt a lot and learn to be the better liar.