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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...

Americans think they can just bring components with them to Canada. Ha! Check your laws. No such right exists. You can't do it, neither can a Canadian with a USA firearm permit. Canada has no problem with the import, but the USA certainly does with the export.

Any disparaging comments about the Hornady DGX are outdated. The more recent DGX Bonded is a good bullet.

I've been happy with Swarovski 8x30 CL Companion binoculars for my Africa hunts. Much better than pocket binoculars, not as bulky or heavy as a regular full size, they seem "just right"

I quit using traditional style snowshoes, because of the challenges with bindings. Leather bindings only worked well for me in combination with traditional moose hide mukluks, they are just not well suited to use with rubber bottom boots. The modern aluminum frame / synthetic snowshoes are...

Another perspective ... The Truck/SUV etc is just what I use to get close to the most interesting hunting country. Then the real important transportation comes into play - float planes, canoes, ATV, etc. Most of Canada's best hunting country is beyond the roads, and almost half the land just...

Unfortunately to be road legal here in Canada ( or the USA I assume ) almost all the really good versions of off - road vehicles like Toyota land cruiser would need to add emissions controls, air bags, etc. so they are banned from import. Custom additions are not of interest to me. I've made do...

Merkel 140 AE, .450-400 3"

Woodleigh 400 grain FMJ RN solids, part box of 44X Woodleigh 400 grain Hydrostatically Stabilized all brass solid, 36X 80 bullets in all, excellent for the .450-400 3" Nitro Express and some others. Woodleigh bullets are unobtainium since the factory burnt down. I've done my elephant hunt...

My Merkel 140AE 450-400 3" with 60 cm barrel (approx. 23.5") shooting Hornady factory loads averages between 2000 fps ( at 5°c) and 2080 fps. (at 30°C) AND there is a consistent difference of about 20 fps between the right and left barrels. Shoots good consistent groups from both barrels despite...

If you want a modern, capable Euro rimmed cartridge in .308" the .30R Blaser fills that need vey well.

Sigh. Americans demanding that classic European kipplauf or other break action rifles be chambered in rimless cartridges like the 7x57 when the almost identical but proper 7x57R are commonly available ( not at Walmart! ) Why buy a classic rifle and handicap it with your choice of ammunition...

I was hunting by myself in the remote and unpopulated Saskatchewan river delta. Late season moose, mid-December. It had just snowed, knee deep and fluffy, and was very very cold, -42° that morning when I set out walking from my overnight camp. The kind of cold that hurts inside if you breathe...

I like Norma Oryx 285 gr. bullets the best in my 9.3x62. And Norma or Lapua brass. Just wonderful performance on Bears, Elk, and Plains game up to giraffe in size. There have been several comments in this thread about using CFE 223 powder in the 9.3x62. It is one powder that has remained easy...

Big question, but if considering commercial, non-custom bolt actions only, and in no particular order. These are all very good, but all are quite different... Brno ZG-47 Blaser R8 Mannlicher-Schönauer

I can’t help with your question, but want to compliment you. You have a beautiful, very well made rifle. Congratulations!

I don’t doubt your experience Steve, but my local gunsmith told me he has never had to work on the locking lugs on a Sako, unlike many Remingtons, Winchester’s, and various Mausers he’s seen with uneven locking lug contact. Exceptions exist for anything it seems. My own experience with two of my...

Thanks for sharing and congratulations on a successful and exciting hunt. Glad nobody was hurt!

Interesting about your twist rate in that FN Browning. I had the same model/ caliber rifle, and mine was more accurate with 165 gr. bullets than it was with 180’s. Now I know why. I have full confidence in Norma ammunition, but obviously that long a-frame 180 grain bullet is no good in your slow...

All my rifles are equipped with slings and QD swivels. I also feel it's a much safer way to carry a rifle in a group than the "African" carry. With practise, a slung rifle can be brought to aim very quickly, and also quicker than "African" carry. Getting a sling snagged on brush doesn't seem to...

It's becoming quite difficult to find a low power / variable power scope with straight tube that doesn't have huge exposed knobby turrets that snag on stuff and perhaps even lose their setting, and very complicated reticles that do not help a hunter aim quickly and accurately at game animals...

Had a fairly wise man say to me, the absolute best use of a single litre of gasoline is to put it in a chainsaw. Nothing else will yield a similar amount of useful work compared to the alternative muscle power. No vehicle, no generator, nothing else comes to mind. A litre of gasoline can produce...

Our weather warmed up to around 0° and so I got out to shoot a few shots over the chronograph. And learned something in the process. First some history. A few years ago I shot my .35 Whelen and compared both standard and magnum primers with RL15 powder / 250 grain Hornady bullets. The maximum...

I carry a knife every day. All the years that I went to school, university, various "office" jobs, even to church on Sunday. Just don't feel dressed without a pocket knife on my person. And I use it almost every day. When in the bush, I always carry a pocket knife, or a Leatherman, and some way...

I have a summer place in remote Northern BC, just a hop from Alaska. What I've settled on for my camp gun suits me just fine. Rossi M92 Stainless ( Trapper 16" barrel) .44 magnum loaded with HSM 305gr. hard cast "bear loads". Handy, so it's easy to pack around, "powerful enough" for the kind...

"In the end, we will only conserve what we love. We will love only what we understand: And we will understand only what we have experienced" “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science” - Albert Einstein "A human being should be...

Those Norma Oryx are excellent! And that’s a very good price!

I don’t worry about stocks that are too long. It’s easy to cut a little off of a too- long stock. Or better yet, first remove the recoil pad and shoulder the rifle to see if it helps.

I was hunting / tourist in that area at the beginning of March last year. Temperatures were pleasant, 20-30 deg C most days, and we had only two light rain showers in two weeks. I brought a water repellent jacket that I seldom wore, and shoes that were comfortable to walk in but not waterproof...

It wasn't bad, going for memory maybe $80 or so? Certainly no worse than shipping from the USA anyway. I buy scope mounts from Slovenia, detachable magazines from the UK, and have bought a custom stock from Australia. All transactions were painless, and no more expensive than buying from the...

Charlie that rifle and scope looks like a fine choice. That part of your planning and preparations is commendable. However, while you may have a good reason to put extra ammunition on your sling, it is not my preference. It seems like a handy location, and looks good, but think about a sling...

An update: I picked my repaired rifle up from the gunsmith yesterday. Parts and work was finally completed almost a year later. Better late than never I suppose.

If you aren't stuck on supplying your own blank, consider an overseas supplier. I ordered a stock from Australia, Hatcher's Rifle stocks. You would need to do the final fit and finish or have someone do it, but I'm very satisfied with mine. Cameron does good work, and has some really nice wood...

.416. Oddly & Swift Aframe and Barnes TSX bullets

.416. Oddly & Swift Aframe and Barnes TSX bullets

While hunting in Zimbabwe last March with a rented rifle, my elephant hunt was finished on the first day. So I hunted Wildebeest and Impala with that .416. Oddly, both animals ran farther than I expected with decent shots to the chest, using Swift Aframe and Barnes TSX bullets. About 100 M death...