If you had $1500 to spend on a new western hunting setup, what would it be?

Reece123

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So I have a bit of a decision to make. I recently joined a raffle group on FB and they had a raffle on a new Mathews arc 30. I toss my money in and win. I thought the guy was going to ask for my local dealership, call them and basically pre purchase one and I’d get to pick the color etc. Turns out it was just a cash out. He sends me $1500 and says “let me know what you get!” I’m not mad about that, it just opens the door for more opportunities.

Back story, I just bought a new lift x 29.5 for sub $1k. If I was getting the new arc it would be a 34 to cut out some redundancy but I’m afraid having 2 bows 1 year apart and different ATA may still do that. It’s also hard to justify paying that kind of money when I know in about 8-10 months I can pick one up for around $1k if I wanted to.

I’m wanting to get into western hunting, and have been looking for an excuse to buy a nice new “mountain gun” in something like a 6.5 or 7prc perhaps. I already have a vortex viper 6-24 I picked up that I had planned on using for said gun.

So the question is, if you were in this predicament and were playing with the houses money, what would you buy and why? Mind you, I’m not in any sort of spot of “I should put this towards credit card debt” this is the “I can afford a whole lot of guns out there, but most are hard to justify and this makes it easier to justify”. So, what would it be?
 
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