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New Job

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:59 am
by T3hK1w1
Well, it's official-I have been offered a position as a hunting guide for the Mota Bonita Lodge on the King Ranch! :grin: :cheers2: :hurry: So, pretty soon I will be packing my bags and moving down there. They have FREE AMMO for employees!!! :shock: Not to mention they let you hunt as well... Only downside is the no handguns policy :roll: But that's ok, since I can OC a .44 mag lever-action :grin:

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:14 am
by carlson1
:shock: Hunting Guide with NO HANDGUN?
Congratulations and happy hunting. Send me some venison. :drool:

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:31 am
by fm2
Wow! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:26 am
by NcongruNt
Well congratulations!

So uh... are there fringe benefits for visiting friends? :grin:

I do find it a little bizarre that they prohibit you from carrying a handgun. That just don't make no sense.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:05 am
by longtooth
I am prowd for you too.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:06 am
by Lumberjack98
Congratulations!

Sounds like a dream job.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:18 am
by bpet
44 Mag Lever action???? Put it in a thigh holster, cut the stock and barrel, flair the lever, and you have the ideal concealed firearm. Seems like I saw this on a tv western years ago.

Seriously, sounds like a perfect job. How long have you been working to get it. I'd love to be able to do something like that.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:19 am
by chewy555
Congrats on the new job. Sounds like it sould be a great time.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:50 pm
by drinks
Actually, that was a chopped and channeled .44-40 , model '92, got the studio in hot water with BATF, the idiot carrying it could not use it anyway, all the ammo in his belt was .45-70!
:roll: :lol:

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:28 pm
by DSARGE
Man, what a dream!! Congrats!

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:28 pm
by govnor
No handgun? No problem! That's assuming that full auto AR's are welcome...

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:42 pm
by Seburiel
bpet wrote:44 Mag Lever action???? Put it in a thigh holster, cut the stock and barrel, flair the lever, and you have the ideal concealed firearm. Seems like I saw this on a tv western years ago.

Seriously, sounds like a perfect job. How long have you been working to get it. I'd love to be able to do something like that.
Would that have been Steve McQueen in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted:_Dead_or_Alive ?
Zoe Washburn in Firefly used the same (model, I mean) in Firefly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Washburne (you can sort of see it on her leg in the pic)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1892

Isn't there a tax-stamp you can get to be able to legally posess a short-barrelled rifle?

ETA(Edited to add): wikipedia's entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare%27s_Leg states:
"Such a cut-down rifle—or any rifle with a barrel length less than 16 inches—is actually illegal without special permits, but it is not illegal to make an exact copy from scratch as a “lever action pistol.�"

what's the legality on something like this?

FETA (further edited to add) get a gander at this:
http://www.jbcustom.com/new-mares.htm

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:29 am
by stevie_d_64
Big bore!!! Love it!

And to be able to land a job like this...Steve be heap big jealous... ;-)

Way to go muh man!