Recent content by Doug Hamilton

Oh yeah.

I don't think slide rules are even made anymore. Most of the ones still out there have ended up in shadow boxes hanging on office walls of engineers and other high tech types.

Injured (snared) buffalo are no joke. The property owners of the ranch where I spent my first week in Zimbabwe told me that about three weeks before I arrived told me about an incident that happened three weeks before I arrived. One of their workers was out to work on a fence and surprised a...

Yeah, those ankle wounds from an enraged bull grysbok can be lethal! Funny ;-)

No.problem. but just out of curiosity, what country are you from?

That was 300 Savage.

I think you're right, and they also kill a lot of PH's, but then there are a lot more buffalo than any other member of the Big Five. Sort of like black bears killing and eating more people than grizzlies do.

Out of this list I have only killed two buffalo. I really don't have the expertise to make a call on it. I have known two PHs that been were attacked by elephants. One was a cow and had the usual result of tangling with an elephant. The other PH was attacked by a bull. He he had his pelvis and...

True. But the most common killer among large animals, other than people, is the dog. Hunters aren't likely to run into vicious or feral dogs in the bush, though on my first safari the PH did kill one that was being used by a pack of poachers. The poachers got away but we did retrieve five...

My uncle hunted with one in .309 Savage. With the Schnabel fore end rotary magazine, those old girls had sex appeal! I always wanted one.

Oh, please. So he missed the picture of claw extractor, and maybe didn't understand the connection to New Haven. After 1964 a good many Model 70s were made in the Push Feed configuration, so what does it hurt if he asks to verify? A scammer that has just been hanging out since 2013? And then...

I was on my first safari in 1983. I shot a buffalo late in the day and it was dark when we finished it. the oh and tracker had to hike out a couple of miles to the Toyota, so that they could navigate their way back to the buffalo. I was left to wait with the buffalo to guide them in when they...

My dad was a civil engineer. I remember him using a slide rule in the 60's. We were amazed when he brought home a pocket sized calculator in the late 60's or maybe 1970. I think my son-in-law ended up with my dad's slide rule as he is an electronics engineer as is a good buddy of mine. Neither...

While I feel.your pain, and even flew Qatar Airlines on my last Africa trip...but, I'll be damned if I will advocate for state ownership of any business. Socialism and Communism has been a dismal failure everywhere and I will.have no part in spreading it to the US.

I've never seen a thermometer at -56 or -65, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to!