Perhaps I am harsher than most on this, but I have a lot of experience that tells me mine is the way to bet. Don’t get me wrong, if he truly is just ignorant and truly recovers from it, I will not begrudge anything he does or achieves for himself subsequent to such awakening. However, I still will nover place anything I value at his disposal including my trust. I just can’t find my way to faith in a man over the period of days , weeks or months when almost half a century left him far less than he should have been. Miracles happen, I just don’t believe he will be one.

We don’t need sell-outs or stupid hunters. Zumbo is one or the other, there is no third option, such as “I didn’t understand.” After 42 years if he didn’t understand he either was willing to throw us under the bus to protect his narrow interests or he is stupid. Either way I don’t want him on my side. I only want those I can trust. Zumbo will never be able to meet that spec.

As for Zumbalistico, I’ve read numerous times about back when guys first started putting old milsurp bolt actions into hunting stocks – first post WWI with M1917′s and old 1898 Krags and such, and later post-WWII with 03A3′s – those guys were looked-down upon by “real hunters” and the Hunting Establishment, and those bolt-actions were considered unsuitable, unwieldy, and innaccurate… Sheesh, what I hate about boomers (still think Z is one) is their generational narcissism and refusal to acknowledge History and learn from it.