Recent content by DLSJR

I do 99% of my hunting with four rifles that I’ve tried to make as similar to each other as I can. All are model 70’s (.264, .375, .416 all pre-64 & .338-post-64). All have been rebarreled (Krieger, Shilen, Hart, Lilja). All wear Brown Precision fiberglass stocks, the three smaller guns have...

Interesting. This sounds like great practice and very practical.

Congratulations on a good hunt! I especially like your buffalo.

One thing I’ve done lately, which some people think is too aggressive but has worked for me, is to take the names of those I’ve had to deal with while flying. If I’m given any hassle at all or reason to be concerned, I ask for their name so they know I can hold them accountable if a missing...

Those baseball bats are kinda special to me. A couple are bats given to me by friends who played Major League Baseball, some were given to me by players whom I coached when they were 16-19 and moved through college ball to play professionally and the one on the top left is a 2014 World Series...

That doesn’t always work. I had a similar experience with TSA while flying out of my home airport, SMF. I was summoned over the PA system and went back to check-in counter where a TSA agent was waiting. She wanted the combination to the lock on my gun case, which I was not willing to give her...

My room is a bit of a mess presently but this is my book case. I bought my first collectible book when I was 17, back in 1976 and paid $300 for it. First edition of Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter by W.D.M. Bell. Still have it.

Elephants are very smart. It’s tough to give them an accurate percentage though, because while they’re May only be 50-60% as intelligent as some of us, I believe they’re probably around 70-80% as intelligent compared to us as a whole. But, when you compare elephants to liberals and animal...

Just a thought but perhaps they ramp up then in anticipation of DSC and SCI shows. I’m pretty sure they sell a lot of large caliber bullets and ammo then. So, perhaps it’s simply seasonal for Swift to make bullets of 9.3 and up.

The cartridge dimensions of the Hoffman and Remington are very close. The only difference I’m aware of is that the shoulder on the Hoffman is very slightly forward of the Remington. Like 1/16th of an inch or something close to that. That’s why you can shoot Remington ammo in a Hoffman chamber...

The load I currently shoot (and which I like a lot) is 79.0 grains of Reloader 15, Federal 215 primer, Quality Cartridge brass and a 400 grain bullet. I’ve loaded Barnes TSX, Trophy Bonded Bearclaw, Swift A Frame and Cutting Edge solids. I get 2,400+ (2,400-2,410) in my rifle and all those...

I’m not much help as I’ve never shot .416 Remington ammo in my Hoffman, even though I know I can. Fortunately, I’ve always had a decent stock of .416 Hoffman brass. You can usually get 416 Hoffman headstamped brass by calling Pete at Quality Cartridge. I’ve found it to be good brass. He’s a...

I took a 3-rifle battery on my very first safari, which was a 24-day affair in Zimbabwe. Since I had everything from Grysbok to elephant on license, except for a lion, I figured I needed a light, medium and heavy rifle. I took what I had at the time: Ruger M77 in .270 Winchester Ruger M77 in...

@HankBuck, you certainly did not ask me but my opinion (opinions are like assholes, everyone has one) is that the .338 Win Mag is what any 300 Mag wants to be when it grows up. It’s damn near perfect for damn near everything.

I would not hesitate to use a 30-06 or any 300 magnum on a croc. A quality 30 caliber 200 grain bullet through the brain or breaking the neck will kill a croc just as dead as with anything 375 or bigger. And it’ll do less damage to the trophy. To your comment about some countries not...