Recent content by Tra3

Anyone who has regularly hunted the mountains in snow has experienced the joy of a good fall, and if lucky, the excitement of watching the buck you are dragging pass you like toboggan laden with kids.

R8: round in the chamber. That is the beauty of an R8, and part of the reason I’m ok with the extra cost of that platform. I don’t like to hunt with a round in the chamber with a 3 position safety. I load when close to a shot. I also have a habit of verbally announcing when I load or unload...

Brilliant!

Grocery bags! I just made two out of giraffe hide. Buffalo would be excellent. Open top, two handles, simple. And you can leave them in your vehicle. Tool bag. Perfect material for that. Small square for closet rug. Look at little spaces in your house where a 3x3 rug will be perfect.

https://optimo.com/hats/#travel My favorite current hat is a brown Optimo Mundo. It is crushable. 100% beaver felt. I’ll likely bring it to Africa this September. And I’ll have a standard baseball style hat, which is what I mostly wear when hunting. Texas, Montana, etc, you all have some nice...

+1 on a behind the shoulder shot. For inside of 100 yards, something in the 6.5mm category with a heavy for caliber barnes will be excellent. I primarily use a 7mag, but shots inside of 100 are violent, a barnes bullet will help reduce that. I’ve been surprised by the holes a .30-30 will make...

I do the same as @Wade J VanGinkel I have plugs on a string that are looped around the button on the top of my baseball hat. The plugs stay tucked under the hat or behind my ears until deployment. 90% of the time it is easy to get them in prior to shooting. Very seldom do I need to shoot so...

In Mn now too

Thank you! I shot a dik-dik last summer. I don’t think I’ll go after one again this year, they are about the most expensive animal in Africa, if measured by weight! Steinbok and duiker are readily found, for sure I’ll chase either of them when seen. It is like hunting rabbits. You don’t know...

With potentially 30 species of antelope roaming the area, a .223 would not be an ideal, or even a good choice. Even in a focused tiny 10 hunt, there is always a good chance for something else. You can’t take what the bush offers unless you are adequately prepared. We have had to do some...

That is a big shark! Looks over 100 lbs. I’m also awaiting your report!

I bought a set of aluminum 4 stable sticks in England in early 2023 after using them for an excellent hunt. They went to Africa last summer and Montana in the Fall. They are a good value. They were easy to pack when take apart. I’ve used bogpod tripods and homemade tripod sticks. They each...

I started 2024 with a hunt in England in early January: Muntjac, Chinese Water deer, Fallow and Red deer, and pheasants. September I’ll be in Namibia with Jamy Traut Safaris. My big sister is coming along with my dad. Sister has never hunted. My dad and I have an estimate of 90% that she will...

A .375 works well in my experience. Id imagine a 9.3x62 is about equal. So, a heavier bullet in the whelen should do it. For sure it will work with a neck shot.

Thank you fort the report! It sounds like you had a wonderful trip. I’ll be in Spain in September dropping off my son for a study abroad program. I went to Spain as a college student. My adviser at college told me that “I might fall off the radar for a while” when I got to Spain. He was right as...