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I didn't know blue duiker or suni actually lived in Zim. Learn something new every day.

So you're saying that you've u can always hit within less than an inch of what you want to hit under hunting conditions? That is what is just not true. Of course bullet construction and weight are always important, but a deer shot in the shoulder with any .308 caliber bullet from say a .30-06 is...

Once I met a guy while we were both on safari. He had just shot a grysbuck with his .375 (sorry I don't know what bullet). It made a neat hole through the rib cage. In Zimbabwe no antelope is smaller than the grysbuck.

Believe it or not, a larger faster bullet applied in the same spot is generally more effective than a smaller bullet. And yes, I do own a .223.

Just because something has been done doesn't mean it's a good idea. Without perfect shot placement a .223 is inadequate for large game animals. My buddy shot a buck while we were hunting together. I saw that one shoulder appeared to be bulged. Someone had shot the buck square in the shoulder...

Right. On my first safari I shot a steenbok and a duiker with a .30-06 using 180 grain Partitions. I shot them through the ribs going in and out. Some people would say that this was a "gut shot" because it was behind the lungs on an African animal. Both dropped at the shot and didn't move. By...

That's a dandy! Can't wait to read the story.

I was with you up until you stated that select cutting left a lot of damage to trees causing disease and windfall. That has not been our experience. As far as "out West" you can see the Pacific ocean from the ranch. Select cutting and thinning also leads to much new regrowth with.feed and...

I haven't had it and I don't want it. When I travel to Africa, I take the meds. Same with South America.

Not exactly a .243 was it?

I would suggest that she contact Jennifer Gin at Travel Express. She was full of ideas and put things together for us on my last trip. My wife had not been to Africa before and I wanted to do some things to interest her. Jennifer is great!

When trees are selectively cut based on size and species that really isn't much of a problem. In Western Washington where I live now there are no redwoods, but the Doug firs, Red Cedars, Western white pine and Alders are the same. They clear cut here in blocks but are required to replant. Again...

People that torture kittens also wouldn't recognize the term "fair chase" but we wouldn't call them hunters either. Killing is one thing, creating pain for your own amusement is something else altogether.

Oh yeah. Anything that is manufactured can fail. Some things are more (or less) likely to fail though. I tend to place my bets on whatever appears to be the most reliable. 126 years and still held up as the overall best design works for me.

I've known two men that got malaria. One got it in the South Pacific during WW2. He had bouts of it for the rest of his life. Then there was a PH in Zimbabwe that I met about 40 years ago. He was sick one day when I was hunting with him. Told me that he had bad days on and off and he'd gotten...

Maybe. I couldn't say. But I do know that the PH got rid of that rifle and now only hunts with CRF rifles. Could this incident have happened with a CRF rifle? Maybe, but it didn't.

Not necessarily. We had the family ranch selectively cut a few years ago. Mature forests tend to be pretty sterile, at least if the dominate trees are firs and redwoods as ours are. With light able to enter your he undergrowth boomed, the deer population exploded as did other wildlife that...

If you live in earthquake areas as I do you learn that wood buildings do not collapse in a quake. Concrete and steel buildings do. Brick buildings ate the worst

Have you ever seen a laminated stock fail?

I will tell you a story. When I shot my first buffalo, he didn't fall over right away. We followed him into the acacia and mopane. The PH spotted the bull and took the shot with his push feed Model 70. The bull collapsed and we.moved in. The buffalo looked dead but we were careful. When the PH...

I believe it. Just don't tell.us your going to use a .243 for buffalo! Doug

The problem with semi autos is that they are constantly looking for an excuse to stop working. A friend of mine had a Remington auto fail to feed after one shot. Twice BB when hunting with my cousin his BAR failed after one shot. Both guys went back.to bolt actions for hunting. Another friend...

Exactly. That is what I point out to Vegans who claim that they are on a vegan diet because they love animals and would never kill.one. if they persist and claim that they don't kill anything themselves, although by now their argument is weakening, I point out that the person that hires a "hit...

The only time the .35 Whelen fails against the 9.3 x 62 is Africa. The 9.3 is legal for large dangerous game and the .35 Whelen isn't. For those that want a one gun safari, the .35 Whelen won't work, although I think it would be perfect for a strictly PG hunt or as a "light rifle" on a mixed...

Very well said Tom. Humans evolved to reproduce and to hunt. I would also say that humans have evolved to create and use tools. When someone asks me why I hunt I will now tell.them that. When they then ask why I kill animals when I could just buy meat, I will ask them why would they have sex if...

What people go after is perceived cruelty. The causing of additional pain for no.reason except entertainment does no one any good. Pictures or video of the kill, or worse the injury of an animal, plastered on social media serves only to cause the anti hunters to start a new round of legislation...

She has a head band?

Great rifle. Makes you wish you could find a list of owners and adventures since it was built.

Very classy!

Welcome. You can learn a lot here.

You made those knives? Love 'em!

I have a cobra style sling on my .300 WM, (also 7mm RM, and .30-06). Those slings tend to be comfortable for carrying. I never thought these looked right on a big bore rifle with a barrel band. I got a wide canvass sling for the .458. That looks right and is very comfortable. I have a stretchy...

Yep, a safari should be a hunt in Africa. A hunting trip involves travel to an area where you spend the night in your own country while hunting. I believe you're right about "shikar" but I've never been to Asia.

If you really don't want to take more than one rifle a .375, 9.3x62, or .404J seem to work.well. Personally, I never.travel to hunt with just one rifle. I only own one rifle larger than my .300 WM. It's a .458 WM on an identical action, so those are the two I took to Zimbabwe on my last trip...

The word *safari" means "journey" in Swahili. So to me a hunting trip in Africa is a safari. I am however, not impressed by the little old ladies that stay in a plush lodge and go out in a zebra-striped bus to see the park animals. Technically they are correct, but to me a safari involves dirt...

I would like to share a camp with Jim Zumbo. I've met.him two or three times over the years and believe he's a genuinely good guy.

As do I, but I like knowing that if I am ever separated from my ammunition I can buy some. One time a friend went hunting in Nevada with me and some other guys. He had forgotten to pack his smmo. Fortunately he had brought his .30-06.

There's a valuable lesson here for everyone. Find the best taxidermist you can. Cost becomes irrelevant. I well.mounted trophy is a source of pleasure and pride forever. Bad taxidermy is ugly and a source of embaresment until you get.rid of it or move it to.the attic. What do you want to look at?

I wrote on Friday and asked the original what he had chosen after getting all this good advise for six years. He hasn't answered.

I have too. In NA I've taken moose, mule deer, and black bear. In Zimbabwe I took nyala, waterbuck, bushbuck and impala. I haven't hunted any of the big bears, sheep or goats, but I have no doubt that the .300 WM would work just fine. I was looking for an African grizzly on my last safari in...

Maybe if he wasted to restrict himself to the Eastern states of the US, or maybe the Yucatan (that's technically still in North America). Not a great choice for hunting the Western states with big canyons, sage brush and open flats though.

Yeah, you could just run into any little store in Wyoming or Utah or Georgia and pick up a box of ammo......oh, wait...

Probably right after they stop telling Canada how to manage their Polar Bears.

I do not know Bruce, but I can tell you that it Ed Lapour gets it, you will.be well pleased when you get it back.

I missed a good mule deer buck in Colorado one evening while using my muzzle loader. I could not see the front sight which was all dark grey. I had a gunsmith replace the front sight with another that has a tiny red fiber optic bead. The next year I was on the same ridge at last light. When a...

Is that Just Gina?

I've wondered about this before. PADI and various local governments have no problem with fishing from boats, but are opposed to spear fishing where you actually specifically target which fish you kill. Small fish and those not desired for food are safe. Narrow minded thinking.

You're right. When traveling I take two rifles in a two gun case with wheels. I use straps to attach a large duffel that holds clothing and other gear to the case.. Now you can roll the case and large duffel more or less like a hand truck. A smaller duffel with a shoulder strap as a carry on...

I haven't hunted elephant either, but I have killed a couple of buff. 500 grain solids out of a .458 Win Mag works very well. My PH told me not to bring softs, and he's been doing it for over forty years. The last bull dived behind a clump of acacia at the shot. He didn't make it more than about...

Hunter-Habib, If you say it, I'm going to believe it! Although I've never felt a need to use 220 grain bullets in a .30-06, if I ever have to kill a man-eating tiger with one of mine, I will follow your advice! We don't actually have a lot of tigers in Washington state, but they are now...