Recent content by Piet-Vis

Large Game, from 303 to 9.3 I have the Small, Medium and Dangerous. Small Game did not come out as a hard cover, only as a very good quality soft cover, as the price of printing became too high. The book sales seems to be low in spite of what seems to be to be immense popularity on hunting forums.

Pierre told me in December his 4th and last book would take another 3 years or so.

I have a 30-06 on a Wild Pear stock that my old man cut, and Jan crafted for me. Very pretty. I'll be very interested to see your stocks when they are finished. What design have you opted for? Straight American?

Jan Bondisio? That is what I am thinking about.

Yeah, there is so much to consider! I really like the look of British stalker type rides, but do believe the American straight stocks are beteer for cheek weld and recoil displacement. Or are they?

Hi All I've considered adding a few new rifles to my safe and decided that I would need to either build from scratch or buy rifles with good actions (Mauser, of course) and then send them to a stock-maker to have custom stocks fitted. I live in the darkest Africa, the nearest stock maker in...

The Tsetses had a major impact on the history of Africa. When I was much younger I was amazed about the agricultural potential of Central Africa after my first flight over Zambia with a Cessna. I asked my father (who has a major interest in history) why our ancestors stopped trekking at the...

I would need to find a bloody big pot..

That is indeed one of those places where the environment allows Kudu to grow out really really big...

Hi Kevin The South African university qualifications are 3x years for your Bachelors, 1x year for your Honours and then min 2x years for your Masters degree. At Masters level you are expected to do research and publish under guidance from a promotor, while a you need to be able to do independent...

Wrong again. If we saw any spectacular trophies on the unfenced part we would get the helicopter, dart it, and then put it in the game camp where we could breed it... (The kudu was well beyond breeding age) Great genetics is worth a lot of money you know. Farmers are businessmen, and they look...

The 50 000 ha farm is in the Namibian Kalahari. There are very few properties like that in SA. I've lived the majority of my adult life in Botswana... ;)

"I believe free range cattle ranch kudu hold better genetics than most high fence farms" The sheer arrogance of a foreigner that has visit SA what, half a dozen times, to tell a person with post grad qualifications in animal breeding, and who spent most of his life ON cattle farms about where...

Err, no That is not how genes get transferred. By the time a bull is trophy size (+55") he has spent several years spreading his seed. Or how game farms are managed. Game Farmers are very careful to look after the young bulls with the deep curls to go out past their ears. Horn size is not a...

Note how his hooves grew out in the Sand, it was his last winter