From the article posted by the OP....
These standards will avoid more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions and provide nearly $100 billion of annual net benefits to society, including $13 billion of annual public health benefits due to improved air quality, and $62 billion in reduced annual...
Leave it as is! Any modifications you do to it, no matter how minor , will cut the value by around 50%. Hunt with it as is, or oil it and put it away as a investment piece.
Android only for me, Backcountry Navigator has been my go to for so long I'm not Interested in switching, or paying a subscription fee to use something else.
Did they change the ruling on that? When the otc hunt opened in 2020 the deal was, you lose your business points, and you can never buy or apply for another bison permit again.
That is a wonderful old rifle, with a great story. Sad that you have no one to pass it down to.
Do you have provenance of if being a gift from Umed Singh II?
If you've got the cash flow to support making payments on 300k at 7% for hunts, I would think you'd even enough cash to just do one hunt every other year or so, and not borrow the money.
Your money, do with it what you like. But, any financial advisor would tell you it's a terrible idea.
Maybe someone has already posted this, but I'd bet that bullet hit some pretty good brush before it hit the elk, and entered sideways or even heel first at significantly slower than 1900 fps.
Not going to watch, but did they say if they were shooting Factory Federal ammo? Or some kind of super slow handload? The factory stuff would have been still traveling at ~2150 fps at 350 yards.