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" I don’t hear the retort of the rifle" A lot of this depends on the rifle or pistol. I've always used hearing protection at the range, but usually not while hunting. But then I shot the head off a grouse with my .357 magnum pistol and I shot a black bear with my .44 magnum pistol, and...

My story is just the opposite. 40 some years ago when I shot my Mountain goat he had a large body and full winter coat and my taxidermist wanted to do a full mount of him so much that he cut his price for a full mount in half, but back then I didn't have room for a full mount, so I only had him...

Although I do have 2 Euro mounts, I'm not a fan of them. One is a pronghorn antelope that I wasn't going to have mounted so I gave the cape to my taxidermist and he gave me back a euro. The other is my American Buffalo that I had a shoulder mount done of him, and had my taxidermist clean the...

My Montana Mountain Goat was an old billy and he stunk of goat. I had all of his meat made into sausage and luckily the freezer that I had him in quit while I was out of town and he went to the county landfill. I don't remember any objectionable smell from my Texas Aoudad, but we didn't bring...

On my Alberta moose hunt last September (2023) nobody said anything about a "moose export Permit." Going into Alberta I had to fill out a Canadian Non-Resident Firearm Declaration form and pay $25. My "Non-Resident Alien Wildlife Certificate Resource Development Certificate" (Hunting License)...

Mozambique, 2015. .300 Weatherby, Leupold VX 3i 4.5-14x40 scope with B&C reticle set at 4.5x, 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullet, 50 yd shot from a ground blind, complete bullet pass through, he was dead 19 paces from the bait.

Zoe with my antelope 2 years ago.

I shot a moose in northern Alberta last year. I drove from my home in Montana to Ft McMurray where I met my outfitter. Coming home, I filled 2 120 quart coolers with ice and boned out moose meat in game bags. I was worried about CWD and the moose antler scull cap, and my outfitter told me to...

I bought and built my .375 RUM primarily for my first Cape Buffalo hunt. That hunt was also one of the few hunts that I've done where I took two rifles. My second rifle on that hunt was my 7 mm Rem mag that I took for Plains Game animals. My buffalo was a one shot kill with a 300 gr TSX...

I've gone on 6 African hunting trips. Some PH's had 2 leg "sticks", others had 3 legs. All were homemade with leather or rubber innertube strips wrapped around the end for the rifle to rest in. After my first hunt I came home and made a 3 leg set of my own to practice with. I used 6' bamboo...

My first centerfire rifle was a Herter's Model U9 in .30-06. I killed at least 30 elk, 2 moose, and a lot of other animals with that rifle without ever having a cartridge feeding problem. My .357RUM, a couple of 7 mm Rem mags, and 3 Weatherby Vanguards are all push feed actions that I have...

Always take 2 rifles so on the last day of your hunt and the animals haven't cooperated by letting your bow hunting buddy to get close enough for a shot, he can borrow your rifle to get his Roosevelt Sable.:D I have gone on 12 international hunts (6 in Africa) and only once did I take two...

I bought my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo hunt in Zimbabwe in 2005. My first trip to the range with it, I couldn't shoot it enough to zero the scope. That was the sharpest, hardest kicking rifle that I had ever fired. It is a stainless Rem 700 with a 26" barrel. So I went home and had a local...

For many years for all of my US and foreign hunting I used Nikon 8x23 or 9x25 pocket binoculars. Then after my New Zealand hunt in 2014 I got a pair of Nikon Monarch 10x42s that I'll probably use for all of the rest of my hunting.

Weight wise, this Zimbabwe Buffalo is probably my biggest. Next would probably be this Eland from the Eastern Cape. I think this was my biggest Kudu from the Limpopo Then my best Sable, from Mozqmbique And my only other Big 5 animal is this Mozambique Leopard with some Canuck that I...

Well, scratch Belgium off of my list of places that I'd like to live, not that it was ever even on my list.

I used 300 gr Barnes TSX reloads in my .375 RUM in 2005 on hunts in Zimbabwe and South Africa. One shot kills on my Buffalo and Nyala and several other PG animals. I was very happy with those bullets. On another hunt in 2007 in the Eastern and Southern Cape regions of South Africa I used 270...

I'm not chasing any slams, but I do like the spiral horned antelope, and somewhat pick my hunting areas with them in mind. My Southern Greater Kudu Cape Kudu Limpopo Bushbuck Chobe Bushbuck Cape Bushbuck Nyala Cape Eland And just for grins because I like Spiral horns, my Texas...

It's taken me over 40 years to get some of my 19 of the NA 29 animals. I've successfully DIY solo hunted everything on this list plus 3 Bighorn Sheep within 100 miles from my home in Montana and at a cost of less than $100 each, except my Brown Bear and Dall Sheep were guided hunts in Alaska...

I've successfully DIY hunted all of Montana's big game species except Buffalo and Mountain Lion where I used a guide. 40+ years ago those hunts were much easier than they are now, both in drawing tags and in the actual hunting. It seems that the mountains have gotten steeper and higher now...

Actually Snipe are a waterfowl shore bird that I used to successfully hunt when I was in Colorado.

A sad day for Colorado deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep!

Are these lions importable to the US?

Yes, I use my Rem 541 T, topped with a Leupold VX Freedom 3-9x40 CDS scope. It's lighter than my hunting rifles, but the LOP is the same.

I've been butchering my own animals since I shot my first deer back in 1965. In '66 my 3 college roommates and I cut, double hand ground, and wrapped 4 bull elk. The butchering times that Tra3 posted might be true for a whitetail deer or pronghorn antelope, but they don't come close to the...

Probably the animals in your home state that you can DIY hunt on a resident license. I was lucky enough to have hunted mule and whitetail deer, black bear, RM elk, pronghorn, Shiras moose, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat all on DIY and most on solo hunts that only cost me the price of a...

I like Barnes bullets, and I've used Barnes TSX and/or TTSX bullets for almost all of my hunts with my .300 Weatherby and .375 RUM rifles. I have several Win Model 94 rifles, but my hunting use of them is limited. I shot my first deer with a .32 Spl, and I shot my mountain lion with a .30-30...

Not exactly that scope, but I have a Freedom 3-9x40 on my .375 RUM and it works great. It has their CDS turrets that hold their zero on the 100, 200, 300, and 430 yard ranges that I practice at.

I've been fortunate enough to do 6 very memorable hunts in Africa and the variety of game animals probably puts Africa on the top of the list of memorable hunts. However my last two African hunts were both in Mozambique and I only brought one animal home from each of those hunts. I think that...

You're right! I shot that elk in '76, the Bighorn rams in the early/mid '80s, and the Dall ram in '99. At least with the elk, I think that the only "premium" bullets available were the Nosler Partitions. The year after I shot that elk I had that .30-06 rechambered to .30 Gibbs, and for the...

"Why do people not use premium bullets?" Because bullet placement is more important than bullet construction. Not all game animals need a premium to kill them, and some rifles might shoot a standard cup and core hunting bullet more accurately than a premium bullet. I now hunt almost...

I have a Leupold VX Freedom 3-9x40 on my Rem 541. Works great!

I took my watch (a cheap Casio) off when I retired in 2007. It's been setting on my dresser since then, and because of this thread, I just checked it's time...Its 4 minutes fast!

I did my Dall sheep hunt in the Mackenzie Mts of Canada's Northwest Territories in 2000. I think the total cost of that hunt (Dall ram, Mtn Caribou, and a Wolverine) was under $11K. A year later, an Outfitter friend of mine phoned me about a Stone sheep cancellation hunt for $11K...

I did my first African hunt in 2000, and I think the total cost of getting the capes and horns of my 9 animals was less than $1K. I've done 5 more African hunts since then and the costs of getting my trophies home has just exploded to the point that I don't I'll go back. There's a big world...

Nice!!!!

I looked it up on their online catalog yesterday before I responded to your post. They showed 2 forms. https://www.mckenzietaxidermy.com/Nyala-Half-Life-Size-C859.aspx

McKenzie

From 1972 until 1996 my hunting truck was a 1972 Ford F 250 that for 24 years it hauled many tons of hay for my horses, firewood, and it took my horses and wall tent to my hunting areas, and brought home many deer, elk, antelope, bighorn rams, moose, and a mountain goat from those hunting trips...

For my scoped rifles, I like the look of a clean barrel without any iron sights. In over 50 years of big game hunting I have never had a scope fail, so in my thinking, iron sights on a scoped rifle are just excess baggage. On all of my guided hunts around the world, except for my Dagestan Tur...

My first shotgun was a Miroku 12 ga O/U that I ordered the day I left Vietnam in 1970. After I got home, I joined a gun club with a Trap range so I could learn to shoot flying targets. That gun had fixed Modified and Full choked barrels and it dropped many ducks and grouse for me, along with...

Like @Hunt anything, in my 2 trips to Mozambique I regret that I didn't shoot a Bohor Reedbuck or any of the Tiny Ten. I only brought home a Roosevelt Sable and a Leopard...

I started using Barnes bullets in 2005 when I made my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo and PG hunt in Zimbabwe and South Africa. I loaded and used 300 gr TSX bullets for that trip. They shot moa and worked very well on my Buffalo and on PG down to the size of a Jackal. In 2012 I used my .375 RUM...

Sable filets cooked on the braii in Mozambique...

For over 200 years these animals were known as the American Buffalo. Now it is trendy to call them by their Latin Scientific name, bison. In reading the attached article, the first thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was the word "caught" meaning that someone had shot or killed the animal...