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Elite Hunting Outfitters

Elite Hunting Outfitters

Just finished Selous' A Hunters Wanderings in Africa, an 1893 edition I picked up at an auction some time ago. Only read it as an e-book before, and this was much nicer. Currently re-reading Raymond Chandlers The Lady in the Lake. Next up might be In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. I probably...

A bit of hair loss to the face, but the neck almost completely bald. Bosses worn, but not broken. Not so much drop, and the tips not worn much at all.

Elite Hunting Outfitters

Elite Hunting Outfitters

404 J - since that is what I've got. Only one buff (so far?). North Fork SS 400gn at ~2240

North Fork? Their SS (semi spitzer) and the PP (percussion point) bullets have the same weights and dimensions (and should therefore have the same POI. The only difference is that the tip of the PP has been pre-cut in order to expand faster.

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I use CCI 250 and Fed 215. Never had a problem with either. If you've had several misfires from primers out of the same 100ct box - and the spring is good - then I'd rather suspect a bad batch, or that they've been contaminated some way or another between production and trigger pull.

That kudu... Beautiful!!

Yup I did. Don't know if it adds anything more to your existing knowledge. https://www.africahunting.com/threads/mozambique-buffalo-with-tsala-hunting-safaris.85706/

You guys seem to have had a great time, as I would expect. Reading your reports and seeing your pictures really takes me back to August last year, when the wife and I were in that very same camp, hunting under Rouans guidance. Keep it coming.

Nobody seems to have mentioned the .348 Winchester. Perhaps for a good reason? I don't know much about it apart from what I can read at Wikipedia. Seems to pack a bit more punch than the 7x57R you already have, without going into .375 H&H Flanged territory, and also a little bit more than the...

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

Nah, he doesn't really have a name. But he wears a poncho, a hat and a revolver or two.

"Make that four"

Maybe not 100% correct, but close enough to identify easily: "I understand that you men were just playin' around, but the mule doesn't get it. He doesn't like people laughing, 'cause he gets the crazy idea that you're laughing at him. Now, if you apologize - which I know you will - I might just...

Dirty rotten scoundrels!

Välkommen!

"Yeeaah, I'm gonna need you to come in on saturday" "WTF 'PC Load Letter'?" "I want my stapler" "What I'd do? Two girls at the same time!" Office Space!!

I thought Hawk Bullets made a 250gn version in .30 cal. Maybe they don't anymore. I've never seen them, and I have no idea if they're good. I believe it is an old-school, non-bonded cup-n-core style round nose.

I've only fired one - once - and it was ... interesting. Not earth-shattering, but you knew for sure that it wasn't a blank. It would certainly require some practice to be quick on follow-up shots. Don't know for sure to what velocity it was loaded, or with which projectile (it looked like a...

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

The 6x70R?

Approx 12h drive. We stayed over night in northern Kruger park (Maria Punda guest house or something close to that) on the way up, about an hour from the Moz border. On the way back, we drove all the way to Joburg without stopping. Great hunt, and Tsala will arrange all paperwork for the...

But no actual picture of the buffalo?

I'm not so sure about that. Maybe they did some time in the past, but I think that you might be confusing it with the 9.3x57, which is still being made. Dimensionally, the 9x56 MS, 9x57 and 9.3x57 are quite close, and maybe 9.3x57 brass can be formed into either of the other two. It looks though...

Well, the actions used by VO are perhaps not that important, and neither are the calibres - as I suspect that most of them will never be fired.

A very personal decision, there is no right or wrong. Myselff, I would not do it, even if I was the only one who knew it wasn't the correct one. I don't really think anyone else would care, but I would. Nice buffalo btw.

Not correct, but I can see how you got there.

"I could have had class, I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody. Instead of being just a bum... which is what I am"

Congratulations! FWIW, believe I've had the wedding ring off for fewer hours, than years I've been married. But then I don't work with things where a ring could be a hindrance.

Ok, another one: "If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or if I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anythin', I'll kill ya. In fact - you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive Nick. Now, do you understand everything I said? 'Cause if...

Correct! Perhaps not too hard. Here's another one: "You've gotta make money first. When you get the money, then you get the power. When you get the power, then you get the women."

Ok, here's another one: "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Karate Kid ? I guess it should read "Daniel-San", though?

Welcome aboard. As for the 9.3x62 vs the 375HH, I would say that the slightly bigger cartridge in a slightly heavier rifle is a good thing. Weight tames recoil. In practical terms, there aren't many animals who would know the difference between the two, but.. as long as you can shoot it...

- But... I'm a MAN! - Well, nobody's perfect.

Braveheart

I also hunted there in August 2024, and that is my somewhat blurry person depicted in the first photo. Thankfully so, as the buff looks better than I do. :) I can really recommend Tsala as an outfitter and the area as such. Not a fence in sight, and very few people live there.

That seems to be what we do here as well, i.e. hang meat for around 40 day-degrees, so to speak (Celsius that is). If it is (on average) 5 degrees it can hang for a week, if it is 10 degrees, around half of that. Moose, boar and red deer usually with the skin off. Fallow and roe deer with the...

"That rug really tied the room together"

Citizen Kane - - - - - - - - It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. - Hit it!

Respectfully "NO". To me, that line of reasoning is bordering on appeasement. It didn't work the last time round. Either we forcefully drive home that unprovoked aggression is not tolerated and that there can be no territorial gains from it, or we accept a world where the stronger will be...

I don't think that that is necessarily true. Just because a person already have a lot, doesn't mean s/he don't want more. It could be more money, more influence or whatever. Even if it's not really 'needed' it for any personal actual need. It could be that the factors/personality traits that led...

Or Molotov-Ribbentrop. I.e. something along the lines of "You get Ukraine, we'll take Greenland, you take the Baltic countries and the former Warzaw bloc, we'll take Canada - does that sound OK to you Vladimir?". Well, I don't really think it is that bad, but one cannot help but to wonder if he...