Recent content by Happy Myles

for elephant I prefer 500 grain solids. I have successfully killed Savannah elephant with 450 Ackley, 460 Short A Square, 500 Jeffery, 500 Nitro Express, and 470 Nitro Express. They all worked fine for both brain and body shots. Have also taken two Forest Elephant with my 416 Rigby because...

“ Safari ‘’ is the Kiswahili word for journey. Remember Swahili originally a lingua Franca, a trade language using words from many languages. As I recall safari is the Arabic word meaning to journey. Hasten to add, I am no expert on languages. I have hunted all over the world and to me...

May God bless you both

Ouch! My sympathy and get well soon. Sounds like you are in good hands. I was mauled decades ago and personally know the scars and pain are not worth the fame gain. Wounded leopard always try to get even and are equal opportunity maulers. Get well soon

You might be surprised to discover hunting with a celebrity is not as satisfying as you had hoped. No matter how nice and courteous the celebrity is, the staff and PHs often are focused on serving the famous. Other hunters get somewhat by passed. Even if the celeb tries hard to make sure...

I forgot a couple things. Knee high gaiters and fingerless gloves both soaked in Permethrin. My wife uses and swears by them. Tsetse go up a pants leg in a flash and also bite the back of hands, fingers not so often. As has been mentioned no black or blue clothes.

Aw, Tsetse. Often, good buffalo hunting associated with the Fly. I always carry a head net stuffed into a tiny pouch on my belt. The head net and my clothes all treated properly with Permethrin. Deet,and Skin So Soft slow them down a bit. The head net works better over a brimmed hat. I...

serious bird watchers seem to prefer Swarovski 10x42. That is good enough for me. I like the range finder version .

I had two upstanding Ethiopia hunts with Colonel Negussie. He was a good man.

i like a brimmed hat. It keeps the sun out of my eyes and off my face and neck as i have skin prone to skin cancer. I feel i can see and hear better from under a brim, probably wishful thinking. Most importantly in severe tsetse fly county the brim keeps my head net away from skin. Lot of...

1972 I think

When I first began venturing to Africa I do not recall camo clothing being available. Nor were the services of SCI, DSC or this wonderful venue. I read somewhere that many explorers used apparel by Willis & Geiger That was good enough for me. Their clothing served me so well that upon...

I have killed leopard with 300 Win Mag, 338 Win Mag, 375 H & H, 416 Rigby and they all worked fine. I prefer a 300 Win Mag.

I am not certain but think I currently own three 375 H & Hs, two 416 Rigby and one 416 Rem. My 416 Rigby by Griffin & Howe gets used far and away the most.

You cannot go wrong using anything Murray makes