Travel with $$ rifles

[mark-hunter]

Thanks, this is really usefull! Will search for it!

 

[Safari Dave]

If you are afraid to scratch, ding up, or even loose an expensive rifle built for Africa, then sell it and spend the money on a cheaper rifle and use the remaining funds to book hunting trips.

There is no sense (IMO) in owning expensive hunting rifles that you are afraid of devaluing by hunting with them.

Insure it, or be willing to live with damage or theft.

I scratched a $20K Heym DR though 40 miles of thorns and didn't even get the opportunity to use it on my last buffalo hunt in 2021.

Every one of those scratches adds value to the rifle for me!



My wife will probably sell it for $500 when I croak, unless my best friend or son intervenes, so I decided about 10 years ago, that I no longer own any "safe queens".

 

[CoElkHunter]

If you are afraid to scratch, ding up, or even loose an expensive rifle built for Africa, then sell it and spend the money on a cheaper rifle and use the remaining funds to book hunting trips.

There is no sense (IMO) in owning expensive hunting rifles that you are afraid of devaluing by hunting with them.

Insure it, or be willing to live with damage or theft.

I scratched a $20K Heym DR though 40 miles of thorns and didn't even get the opportunity to use it on my last buffalo hunt in 2021.

Every one of those scratches adds value to the rifle for me!



My wife will probably sell it for $500 when I croak, unless my best friend or son intervenes, so I decided about 10 years ago, that I no longer own any "safe queens".

If your Heym is chambered in .465 H&H, I'll give you $5K right now for it! LOL

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

I am just curious what the consensus here is. I shoot lefty and that adds to not only the cost of my guns but also their availability. I have guns I would kill to take on trips but find myself almost unwilling to risk losing them in transit. Any of you buy a “lower” end gun to travel with and just admire the Winchester Model 70 Supergrades and Custom Dakotas in the gun rack rather than risk them to Africa and the airlines??

No……heck no…..I buy guns to use them! Those I don’t end up using head off to new owners.

 

[Rare Breed]

If you are afraid to scratch, ding up, or even loose an expensive rifle built for Africa, then sell it and spend the money on a cheaper rifle and use the remaining funds to book hunting trips.

There is no sense (IMO) in owning expensive hunting rifles that you are afraid of devaluing by hunting with them.

Insure it, or be willing to live with damage or theft.

I scratched a $20K Heym DR though 40 miles of thorns and didn't even get the opportunity to use it on my last buffalo hunt in 2021.

Every one of those scratches adds value to the rifle for me!



My wife will probably sell it for $500 when I croak, unless my best friend or son intervenes, so I decided about 10 years ago, that I no longer own any "safe queens".

Lol…love your attitude matches mine

 

[JimP]

Pretty rifles are like a new unblemished car.

Before that first dent or scratch is on it you treat it like a new born baby. But after that dent or scratch anything goes.

 

[Woodcarver]

My son always says he doesn't want to use any of my "fancy" rifles for fear of scratching them (he has fallen more than once and dinged up a few stocks, lol). Even when I point out the myriad dents and scratches I've added while using them, he still protests. Forty years after chipping a piece of the ear off the elk my Grandpa carved when he built my Dad his 30-06, seeing that tiny missing piece of wood brings that deer hunt back to mind.
Life's too short to hunt with an ugly gun!

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

I am just curious what the consensus here is. I shoot lefty and that adds to not only the cost of my guns but also their availability. I have guns I would kill to take on trips but find myself almost unwilling to risk losing them in transit. Any of you buy a “lower” end gun to travel with and just admire the Winchester Model 70 Supergrades and Custom Dakotas in the gun rack rather than risk them to Africa and the airlines??

Didnt u buy the nice rifles to use them or just to look at?