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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hangfire" data-source="post: 4364850" data-attributes="member: 27673">On one of my fishing trips to the NWT to a outpost camp one evening a grizzled older local indian came paddling in camp looking for a place to spend the night and possibly get a meal, his english wasn't all that good but the three of us managed to get our points across.....my partner and I fried him up some walleye fillets and potatoes and cleared him a spot on the floor for his bedroll on the floor.After we filled his belly with walleye, potatoes and hot coffee we went out to his boat and in the bottom of the boat was an old beat up Brit 303 that looked like it had been passed down for a generation or two and a old brown box of what looked like surplus ammo.....the stock and barrel were wrapped together with bailing wire, the stock at the receiver / wrist had a good size crack in it that had rawhide wrapped around it and the front sight was sort of cockeyed canted off to the right.He said that he'd paddle the smaller creeks quietly and when he came upon one feeding by the waters edge he'd fire and most of the time had to track it a day before it died but he'd never failed to get his moose for the winter.I guess it just goes to show that if push came to shove that we don't really need our high dollar scopes and expensive rifles....."A country boy can survive".[MEDIA=youtube]3cQNkIrg-Tk[/MEDIA]</blockquote>