Recent content by VertigoBE

Thank you very much for taking the time to write this excellent in memoriam of your mentor @Hunter-Habib . What a life he lived!

This one statement told me just about all I need to know.

Wiadmannsheil @Mark A Ouellette ! Superb story and hunt! Thanks a lot for sharing with us. So, was this elephant one and done, or has the virus of elephant hunting taken ahold of you?

Obviously, 2hp trumps 1hp

One step further still: those who would claim any practice is incomparable and too artificial to be of any use in real life situations, should only look at the difference between the Russian conscript thrown into battle after a half day of training and a US military soldier having gone through...

Well I thought this morning that this thread could not get any worse, and @Carnivore hunter managed to prove he can stoop even lower. Which is a shame, as there was some interesting info coming from our resident bear hunting professionals.

Waidmannsheil to all involved! An elephant bull dreams are made of!

I missed this thread somehow when it was posted. If there are enough orders for delivery in the EU, I can offer to have them added to one of the seafaring containers of goods I import yearly. Next one would be in a few months in spring 2026. This should normally be quite a bit cheaper than via...

Also, no one stopped anyone from @PCC600’s approved list of investors, in acquiring a stake in Westley Richards. In some way we should be happy that at least someone with deep pockets was interested enough in Westley Richards, to inject a large sum of money into this gun maker. Without this...

I don’t think it is a fanbase of amateurs driving the price up, the market is too large for it. In my opinion, this is governments, or large institutions starting to position themselves.

I think that objectively, the Heym Martini is the better rifle over the Rigby big game. So is the Heym 89b the better double rifle over the Rigby Shikari. However, Rigby has its name and nostalgia going much more for it, than Heym. It evokes a more emotional response and seems to do (a bit)...

I would put it even more simply: Whatever the atomic bomb, firearms, cars, computers, etc. do, they do not displace human critical thinking. And some of these inventions did/do come with negative side effects (with the rise of motorized transport we've all gotten fatter, with portable computers...

The only situation I have experienced so far, was when chasing zebra. We had climbed up a kopje and installed ourselves on a rock that hung a bit over the edge. In front of us was a bit of plain, with the bush starting again about 300m from us. We had seen a group of zebra starting to come back...

Perhaps move this discussion to another thread? This is originally the W.J. Jeffery thread.

Perhaps you could get a .500 Rigby going?