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Gotcha. Sadly you missed me heading out by about a week. Alaska is funny with ammo, which is why I started handloading. Though certain powders can be very tough to find sometimes. Obviously you were lucky to find a less common caliber still on the shelf.

This is worded a bit confusing. Do you want the ammo going up to Anchorage AK or coming back down from Anchorage? I am currently in Michigan and head back up to Anchorage as my final destination the 30th.

Much like checkering it may improve the rifle aesthetically when done well but for practical purposes, not so much. As a lefty I have two custom stocks with cheek pieces and two without. Well, one has a right-handers cheek piece. Can't honestly say it makes a difference to me. When it comes to...

Of the handful of rifles I own the one I'd say fits this bill the best is my Savage 16 in 7mm-08. It's factory action, trigger and 22" barrel on a Boyds laminate stock with a 2-10X 40mm Vortex scope on top. With a sling and a box magazine of 4 cartridges it's a hair over 9 pounds. Comfortable...

I've taken a few different species of hogs and a javelina and watched them a lot. Not once have I seen one with their mouths as wide open as they are depicted. So I decided a closed moth worked here. I could see it being open an couple centimeters or so to show off teeth better. That's my take...

Anything involving something I have taken. I understand outfitters and PHs have a lot of clients, but I had one hunt which involved a lodge where a few hunters came and went through the lodge. There was plenty of game meat, and all the dishes were great, but in the week I was there I ate...

I don't have a Red River hog, but I do have it's cousin, the bushpig. I had a closed-mouth, right turn wall pedestal mount. Brings back memories for me.

What's wrong with leaving it as a 30-06? Yeah, it's a tad boring, but also incredibly useful.

Were I to take a 3rd, I'd repeat the first two. 30-06 with 168 grain TTSX handloads. Honestly I wouldn't hesitate using anything from my 7mm-08 to my 375 Ruger. But the tried and true 30-06 has worked with such consistency, why knock it.

More than one bossy critter out there 2021 RSA

Here's an Accurate Innovations stock I got in 2012 for my Ruger African in 375 Ruger. Zero complaints, it has done the job well. But for a DG Rifle in laminate wood I'm not sure I'd say it's any better or worse than the Boyd's Platinum IMO.

My Savage in a Boyd's Prairie Hunter stock with fish scale engraving. Wood is pepper. Oh, and a blackbuck.

As a guy That's what she said. ;)

Pedersoli makes or made the Kodiak Mark IV in it. And for a more basic one there's the Baikal by EEA.

As an Alaskan who walks in bear country on a regular basis, forget the bells. They won't hear them, or at least not from a useful distance. I have pretty good hearing and I walk past folks with bells on their packs and dogs all the time. I don't hear the bells until I am well within sight. If...

If available I'd suggest the Swift A Frame over those boat tails. I personally use 140 gr Barnes TTSX handloads in my 7mm-08 and they drop caribou with ease. I'd take it to Africa for anything up to kudu.

As you've proven, the Partition will do the job. But in short, the others are better. The bonded and monometal bullets expand as well but retain more weight, typically all of their weight.

For factory ammo either the 300 gr TBBC or the A frame IMO. I used handloaded 300 gr Peregrine Bushmaster bullets in my 375 Ruger for a buff, black wildebeest, steenbok, impala and blesbok last hunt. Hit them all like a hammer.

Just one is a horrible idea, ha ha. But.... Black wildebeest. Crazy unpredictable jokers.

Rest in peace Oz. I saw him in concert in the Sullivan arena in Anchorage way back in 1992. Great show.

My summer hiking always gets me to my favorite grayling lake once or twice a summer. Got a couple yesterday.

The info, including video links. Moose Hunting in Alaska., Alaska Department of Fish and Game https://share.google/uAhuvm7qBCc7kFObg

Honestly, as a resident I think residents should watch it too. People don't always realize what they are getting into when taking a moose. One of the crazier stories I heard was my hunting partner from a caribou hunt. We'd taken two each over two days of hunting. Each day we got them quartered...

My Buck 112s. The black handled one is around 7 years old and used for work. I use it daily to open cardboard boxes, which aren't gently on an edge. It has lost at least a quarter inch to the tip from sharpening and the thumb stud broke off after a year. But it's doing fine otherwise, locking...

Well, I voted for the 308, though I own two 30-06. I took one to Namibia twice and nothing walked away. If he's a right hander I'd go with the Winchester M70 for a great first rifle he'll always appreciate. Certainly nothing wrong with the Tikka T3, I can also vouch for the Savage M10. Neither...

Zero. Two trips to Namibia in May both times. Two trips to RSA, September and January. I have seen a spitting cobra and a puff adder in Namibia on the place I hunted. And a couple other vipers in Etosha NP. But not a mamba to speak about, which suits me just fine.

Good luck! Listen to your PH, take your time with the shot and follow through and we'll be seeing some fine specimens in a report I'm sure.

I did not, but several people who I knew down in Miami all talked highly of it. I deal with freight and I can say the Vietnamese love it, they ship dried snakehead all the time in care packages.

Well, my trip to Florida is done. Got a few more. Had a great day off of Islamorada catching mahi, yellowtail snapper and even a small blacktail tuna. Then to top off the list of invasives, I hauled up a bullseye snakehead in Fort Lauderdale on the evening before flying home.

Hanging out in Miami for a few weeks on work. Hitting the canals so far. Plenty of peacock bass, cichlids, and a surprise 2-foot snook on ultralight gear while fishing for those peacocks. Biggest peacock bass is 18" and 4 pounds, spotted hiding in a small canal next to the local grocery store...

Midsouth Shooter's Supply shows it in stock too. Hopefully Hornady does a serious run for a while.

You beat me to the punch. But slight typo, $68.99/ 50.

I've gained a few and lost a few in the past 20+ years. Current crew is a Lamy Safari, a Conklin Duragraph and a pair of Conklin All Americans. All useful, but I will admit, that Safari is close to bullet proof for a fountain pen. Each has converters and I have a few bottles of ink from...

I own two and love them both. A basic #1 in 30-06 I picked up brand new and one in 300 Win Mag I got used that has some interesting custom wood. Both weigh 9 pounds, 3 ounces with a scope and shoot quite well. If I didn't already own Ruger M77 in 375 Ruger I'd be inclined to get a #1 in 375 H&H...

L to R Thompson/Center Encore in 30-06, walnut stock by High Plains Gunstocks. Ruger #1, also in 30-06, standard. Ruger #1 in 300 Win Mag, custom wood with carving, checkering, and stippling.

While it's not very common, I have seen a couple sets of kudu horns with just the skull cap covered in felt or leather. I also recall a set of roan horns like that on wall in Namibia. I can't say if it's "frowned upon" but I can say it's not their call, it's yours. Heck, I've heard of folks...

30-06 with 168 grain Barnes TTSX. Doesn't get any more go-to, bread and butter to me than that. My first two trips to Namibia I dropped 8 animals from kudu and zebra down to springbok.

My 2 cents, for an all around cartridge I'd go with a 375 of your choice. I used a 375 Ruger for mine on a lower neck shot that my PH suggested. Honestly my 30-06 would have worked for that shot, but had I needed to take a normal heat/lung vitals shot the 375 was a much better choice. The hide...

My go to is the 125 gr Slick Trick Magnum. I used it on 515 gr total weight arrows out of a 70# draw bow last time for pass throughs on a nyala and blesbok. On my first hunt they soundly dropped my blue wildebeest with not quite a pass through, but the rig was a bit lighter. I actually used...

Around 20 years ago I was chatting with a guy about hunting Africa. He actually said to expect to wound and lose one animal a trip. He based that off of what others told him and is what he had done on his one and only trip to that point. I've managed to buck his stats, getting everything I hit...

I've been chased by a few cow moose here in Alaska. They don't seem dangerous, but when you seem like a threat to her calf, she most definitely is. Find a tree (or a van once) and keep it between you and her until she loses interest. My first two hunts in Africa were on a big farm in Namibia...

My first two hunts in Namibia were with a 30-06 with 168 TTSX bullets. Everything dropped within feet if not right there. Eight animals total with that rifle and ammo combo. The list went from springbok to zebra and two kudu. There isn't enough difference between a 30-06 and your .308 for any...

Actually the moral of the story to me is take whatever you want, but if funny things like this happen, be prepared to use the camp gun. I took my 375 Ruger to Namibia and South Africa. Even less chance of finding that ammo, so I made sure I knew what was in camp as a back up plan. Each time the...

@Heeler75 the 30-06 was based on the 30-03, and the 30-03 was based on the 7X57 Mauser. I love my two 30-06, but that is a basic historical fact. The US did not create the cartridge blindly. @Wiley64, Ruark had nothing to do with a 7mm-08, which didn't even exist when he died in 1965. He did...

Yes, if it were good quality but under $2K for a base model with possibilities for upgrades. I realize small production and under a grand is not realistic. Heck, $2K might not be either. My first centerfire rifle was a T/C Encore, and I'm up to two of them and two Ruger #1s. So I have no...

You're doing fine, I agree don't overthink it and practice off of sticks. I guarantee you your PH works with a wide variety of people so from how you present yourself I think you'll be fine. For what you're after I'd leave the 375 at home. A 30-06 with 165 gr monometal bullets like the CX...

Honestly this is just asking me to think like my grandparents or even myself in my 20s. Ruger 10/22 Thompson/Center Encore in 30-06 Remington 870 12 gauge. To be quite honest, the 12 gauge gets little use anymore, so I could switch that to a pistol.

The less assumptions you make, the less frustrations, regrets or worse you will have. Read your contract completely. Understand what is covered, what is not. Talk to taxidermists before the hunt whether it's stateside of in country to understand costs.

I needed a project right now to work on and saw this little blade in Texas Knifemaker's Supply as a kit for a muzzleloaders patch knife and saw potential. So I reshaped it into a whittler/caping knife and away I went. The blade is only 2 3/8", perfect for fine work. Final product has a handle...