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I'v used norma Oryx bullets in factory loads in .243 100 grain ( mule deer) .30-06 180 gr. ( Black bear, Whitetail deer, Elk ) 9.3x62 285 gr. ( Oryx, Kudu, Giraffe ) and 9.3x74R ( black bear ) In every hunting application, at every range ( 50-150M ) the Norma Oryx bullets shot accurately...

I hunted the Savé two years ago along with my brother ( Powdermaker) . I wrote a hunt report, and he did too. You can look them up here in the hunting reports section. I was happy with the numbers of game, we saw plenty of buffalo and had no trouble getting a couple nice bulls. And elephant were...

The small details of style built into my 100 year old Italian-German no-name 16 ga. double do it for me. I have much fancier guns, and more expensive, but this one is the most stylish in my collection. and the function follows the form. It is lively and shoots where I look!

Red Leg, if all goes well this will be my third buffalo. The rifle is equipped with a scope, which I used to shoot that group. 1-4x Karl Kaps with FFP German #1 Reticle. Very good in low light. The iron sights are good too, but my eyes aren't iron sight compatible any more so I also have a...

Another vote for the Ithaca M37 Featherlight. It's what I learned to shoot shotgun with. Very reliable, well made.

I tried out some new loads for my Merkel 140 AE double rifle in .450-400 3" Nitro Express today. Quite pleased that I can use Swift A-frames that shoot to the same point of impact with the same regulation as the Hornady DGX that the rifle was regulated with. We will hunt Mozambique, Coutada 9 in...

Welcome! Congratulations on your first African hunting, This is a great place to learn more!

thanks wesheltonj! I will attempt to get that in writing from Delta, since their agents are sending me two different messages.

Many thanks to Jerome and all for the excellent advice on this thread. I have a question about transit through the USA as a Canadian traveling with firearms. I have booked a flight with Delta. It departs in July this year from Vancouver and connects in Newark USA where we change planes and...

A majority of rifles used by North American hunters are no longer well suited to offhand shooting. Stocks are too straight, length of pull too short, balance and handling wrong, scopes oftentimes too big and with too critical eye relief. The USA manufactured hunting rifle market has evolved to...

Part of this poem, in its original German is printed on every bottle of Jägermeister A loose translation which preserves the rhyme and meter is: This is the hunter's badge of glory, That he protect and tend his quarry, Hunt with honour, as is due, And through the beast to God is true.

SCI seems like a good organization doing some good work, but it seems to me it is an organization "by and for hunters from the USA". I wish SCI success, but as a Canadian my donation/membership dollars stay closer to home or are spent directly on hunts in distant lands.

Any Canadians need to feed their .450-400?

I first read Peter Capstick's Death in the Long Grass as an impressionable teenager in the 1970's. His exploits defined my own early longings for hunting adventures in a distant land. As a somewhat feral rural child living in the unpopulated Western plains of Canada, I spent most of my teenage...

Norma Oryx bullets are among the best of the currently available bonded bullets in my opinion. I've used them with complete satisfaction for shooting mule deer, elk, black bear, kudu, oryx, and giraffe with calibers .243, 30-06, and 9.3x62 and 9.3x74R. Every bullet I've recovered was on the far...