Recent content by Ontario Hunter

This has been instructional. I recently bought a nice Mauser stock off GunBroker. I never thought to ask the vendor to take a picture of himself with the stock. His articulation was not great either. But it turned out well. Guess I was lucky. Thanks.

How was his articulation? Did he start out his message "Hey buddy ..." Always a giveaway. Sad that this is some overseas scammer's best work. Pathetic. He/she needs a career change for sure. Back to herding elephants. Or bombing Ukrainians. See ya!

Interesting. Don't believe I've ever seen anything like that before. How thick are the tang extensions? Where did you find a left hand Model 70 safety?

That is a gnarly wildebeest! Or is it the camera lens? I would love to go on this adventure but ... 3 kudu, 3 gemsbuck, 2 warthog, and 5 springbuck are already on the wall. I guess my 1 hartbeest might be lonely? Gad, I do love to hunt kudu. I'll have to think about this one. Curious...

I'm not sure how a soft boss skull could be properly treated to pass import inspection without the soft material being "boiled away." Keep in mind there is underlying living tissue beneath the horn that must be treated and stabilized for inspection. A beautiful shoulder mount that stinks of...

I hunt pheasants now mostly on a very large US federal refuge where nontoxic shot is required. Pheasants aren't as tough as waterfowl but finding steel loads that aren't for waterfowl has become very difficult. For the past couple of years I have even been forced to shoot 3" twelve gauge...

I think the message to be taken away here is be aware of the drawbacks involved in shooting a soft boss bull. If you're paying $10K plus, you deserve a trophy that will be worth that price (+ thousands more taxidermy and shipping!) when the crate is unpacked. The PH should know up front (as in...

I'm not sure it would be poor skinning practice in this case as PH and tracker/skinner both knew I only wanted a skull mount. That flap of cartilage probably would not look right stuck on a bleached skull. Incidentally, this buffalo bull was one of only two skulls that were ready to hang on...

I don't put much stock in that formula. Those British "bird hunters" are usually just standing in one spot while loaded guns are handed to them. No hiking involved. And looking at the videos of those pheasant shoots, the long barreled SxS shotguns used sure look to me to be heavier than 5.5...

The roll of skin between and around bosses is something akin to cartilage. It is separate from both horn and hide. I watched my tracker pull it off when cleaning my bull's skull. It pulled away from both horn and hide in a light colored thick rubbery flap of t-shaped flesh. It was not boiled...

Okay. Space station debris could fall on him too I guess. Don't forget your tinfoil hat. :D

PH is always in front in DG country. I have trouble picturing a scenario where a licensed PH would not be in a "position to intervene" if "it hits the fan."

Interesting. Thanks for that perspective.

Look closely and you can see the tear in thigh of my wool pants where this one hooked me just after I started the carcass downhill. I rode him about fifty yards before we slammed into a small Doug fir. Pulled that bull over a mile down the mountain to a logging skid road ... by myself. In the...

Scope covers don't help when I roll down the mountain and fall on my gun.