Recent content by Doug Hamilton

I didn't know blue duiker or suni actually lived in Zim. Learn something new every day.

So you're saying that you've u can always hit within less than an inch of what you want to hit under hunting conditions? That is what is just not true. Of course bullet construction and weight are always important, but a deer shot in the shoulder with any .308 caliber bullet from say a .30-06 is...

Once I met a guy while we were both on safari. He had just shot a grysbuck with his .375 (sorry I don't know what bullet). It made a neat hole through the rib cage. In Zimbabwe no antelope is smaller than the grysbuck.

Believe it or not, a larger faster bullet applied in the same spot is generally more effective than a smaller bullet. And yes, I do own a .223.

Just because something has been done doesn't mean it's a good idea. Without perfect shot placement a .223 is inadequate for large game animals. My buddy shot a buck while we were hunting together. I saw that one shoulder appeared to be bulged. Someone had shot the buck square in the shoulder...

Right. On my first safari I shot a steenbok and a duiker with a .30-06 using 180 grain Partitions. I shot them through the ribs going in and out. Some people would say that this was a "gut shot" because it was behind the lungs on an African animal. Both dropped at the shot and didn't move. By...

That's a dandy! Can't wait to read the story.

I was with you up until you stated that select cutting left a lot of damage to trees causing disease and windfall. That has not been our experience. As far as "out West" you can see the Pacific ocean from the ranch. Select cutting and thinning also leads to much new regrowth with.feed and...

I haven't had it and I don't want it. When I travel to Africa, I take the meds. Same with South America.

Not exactly a .243 was it?

I would suggest that she contact Jennifer Gin at Travel Express. She was full of ideas and put things together for us on my last trip. My wife had not been to Africa before and I wanted to do some things to interest her. Jennifer is great!

When trees are selectively cut based on size and species that really isn't much of a problem. In Western Washington where I live now there are no redwoods, but the Doug firs, Red Cedars, Western white pine and Alders are the same. They clear cut here in blocks but are required to replant. Again...

People that torture kittens also wouldn't recognize the term "fair chase" but we wouldn't call them hunters either. Killing is one thing, creating pain for your own amusement is something else altogether.

Oh yeah. Anything that is manufactured can fail. Some things are more (or less) likely to fail though. I tend to place my bets on whatever appears to be the most reliable. 126 years and still held up as the overall best design works for me.

I've known two men that got malaria. One got it in the South Pacific during WW2. He had bouts of it for the rest of his life. Then there was a PH in Zimbabwe that I met about 40 years ago. He was sick one day when I was hunting with him. Told me that he had bad days on and off and he'd gotten...