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I’ve got one of these in .243 WSSM. They’re badass. Better performancs without the extra weight and size of an AR10

Looks like a badass old ram to me! Congrats!

Cranes are honestly one of the easiest waterfowl to kill. All neck and wing. I usually shoot 3” steel 2’s or 3’s here in ND. Keep your shots under 50 yards, if you’re on them you’ll crush them. 2 3/4” would work just fine too. Killed a pile of them with a 20 ga when I was a kid too, even some with a .410.

The deer has a big neck too!!

I’ve always been impressed at how high end optics hold their value. The highest cost of ownership of any optic ive ever owned was a pair of Vortex binos I bought for $450 and had to throw away because they were such garbage. I’ve got tens of thousands of dollars of other high end optics and I could sell any one of them right now and lose less then that on them. I hear people talk about how they can’t afford high end optics and I’d argue that I can’t afford to run cheap optics.

That feeling you get when your pride and joy scopes barely make the top 5 on Lances list......

Oh boy. Didn’t even know they made one in SFP. PM sent. I don’t bluff!!

Great deal! If this was an SFP I’d be all over it.

Awesome buck and great story!! Sounds like you learned a lot and were successful on top of it. Couldn’t ask for more!! Thanks for the write up!

If it falls through I’ll take it.

Ordered a pair of NL 12’s. Gonna send these babies down the road. Misplaced the lense caps somewhere along the line. Included is box, case and neck strap. They’re used but in great shape. Glass is perfect. I’m in ND so I’ll have to ship them to you. $1775 shipped and insured. PayPal gift or pay PayPal fee if using regular PayPal SOLD

Sold!

Would you sell it without the scope? What would you need to get for it if so?

Weekend bump. $1775 firm on these guys. PayPal gift or pay fee on regular PayPal at this price.

Those are such awesome bucks! I wanna be like Taylor when I grow up.

Understandable. I’ve been on the site for 12 years so hopefully that helps a little. I see a lot of ransoms show up on here peddling stuff and I agree on it being questionable. I bought my first pair of old school lime green 15’s back in 2008 from Hoghunter (RIP).

Bump to the top. Surprised these haven’t sold yet.

Not usually. Of course right now everything is hard to find. Usually about $6-8 a box.

You can always buy lighter loads for a 12. The smaller frame on a 20 is nice to carry but ballistically a 12 is gonna be more versatile. While it’s true you can get 1 1/4 oz 3” 20ga loads if you wanted a heavy pheasant load, a long skinny shot column is not as efficient and won’t put as many pellets on a bird as a shorter fatter shot column. You can get 7/8 oz low recoil 12 loads that would have exact same recoil as a standard 20 load.

I just put my HD’s up on here. $1850 TYD.

I’ve got some SLC HD’s listed on here for $1850 shipped.

Just remember that the sighting plain on a pump or auto is about 6” longer then it will be on a double. So if you’re used to shooting a 26” pump that would be the same as a 32” double. A 28” similar to a 34” double. Conversely, a 26” double is the same as a 20” pump or auto. I prefer a long sighting plane, even for upland birds. It’s a bit more to carry but worth it in my opinion. My beretta auto I special ordered with 30” barrel. Every double I own has 30” barrels and I feel they’re still too short personally but they’re really hard to find in anything over a 30 anymore. I would look for a good used American or Italian gun before going with a Turkish gun (essentially all the sub $1000 guns made right now are Turkish regardless of what name they wear). Get yourself Red Label, Orion, 101 or silver pigeon. Should be able to find one in that $700-1000 range.

Good luck. Hopefully he’s still in there and you can turn him up again.

A guide won’t help you with the missing part. If you’re shooting then you don’t need a guide. Just keep at it, you’ll figure it out. Unless they’ve got good private access a guide will do you no good. Jumping tanks is a fun way to start. It’s just like deer hunting. Glass them up. Sneak up and shoot them.

It’s fun. I get bored sitting in a blind or tree stand. Try to cover a ton of ground when hunting easterns. Eastern MT has easy to draw tags and some pretty good whitetail hunting. I live on the boarder so I hunt both ND and MT. I forgot to tell you my dad drew the same moose tag I had in Idaho this year and we went in and killed a nice bull. I’ll have to do a little write up.