Recent content by 1dirthawker

welcome from anchorage! just got back from namibia, was hunting with velo dog who i am sure will jump in here at some point. you will have a grand time!!

i did not lose the animal the bullet just came apart. hey, if someone wants to shoot cape buffalo with a crappy bullet, or a moose, eland, etc. thats on them. only costs you the trophy fee, oh yeah, and a sick or wounded animal. sorry so late on the reply, been hunting in Namibia.

that is a great setup for ANY hunt!!

in this case, i did not lose the animal and was able to see what happened to the bullet. the fragmented bullet on such a small animal told me (assuming the bullet would repeat its performance) that on a moose, the bullet would have fragmented too much to penetrate a moose properly (or caribou...

I generally agree with this thought. I don't agree with this thought. when a bullet sheds its jacket, there are a couple things happening, one the bullet is getting lighter (and depending on how many pieces of it, a lot lighter) two, the pieces are likely to divert from their original...

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mark, good luck on your safari, that is a fine rifle! btw, was nice to meet you in dallas

i was thinking......fragile

that, is a beautiful rifle in the quintessential caliber!

as noted above, that is a lot of scope for that rifle. a 1-4x or 6x would be less likely to slip, be lighter and more appropriate. 2 cents worth.

@Red Leg, i kind of agree, but.....there is soooooooooo much information to sort thru. you are obviously a man of the world and experience. that said, it is difficult for a regular voter to keep in touch with the news, not counting the barrage of info that comes from all sources. imagine...

thank you for your service

HA, HA! i know but i misspelled it a couple times and settled for freak cause i didn't want to work that hard to look it up.;)

short answer....Gina is a coffee snob, freak, expert, etc. and spikeT is pulling her chain to get a reaction. all done in fun.

I generally don't like to comment on political stuff, because many on one side or the other are pretty well entrenched and i am unlikely to be able to change minds no matter how good the facts, but, here goes. trump as a human is just like many of us; plenty of problems and sins to make him a...