As you may remember, my dear friend Bob passed away over the winter. His widow let the Shamanic Dream Team have dibs on his collection. Bob was a collector, mostly of Rugers and mostly pistols, and most of these were well outside my budget. I chose two deer guns.

The first one was one of the first rifles that Bob ever showed me. It is a Ruger Model 44 Carbine. I’ve heard this is the best close-in deer gun out there.  The Scope came off O.T.’s  25-06.  It’s an early Aimpoint red dot.  O.T. is another of my hunting buddies that have joined the Campfire Invisible

Bob's Ruger Model 44 Carbine

The other gun I got was a bit of a novelty. It is a Stoeger 12 Gauge Coach Gun modified with rifle sights. It is wickedly good on whitetails with 12 Gauge slug loads, a Buckeye hunter’s dream machine circa 1965. Bob called this one Luigi as a nod to that scene in Godfather II where they have a shootout in Sicily at the old Don Ciccio’s compound.

Bob's Stoeger 12 GA SXS with Rifle Sights

It always impressed me as a shotgun that came up to my shoulder first time and every time.

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