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This has been instructional. I recently bought a nice Mauser stock off GunBroker. I never thought to ask the vendor to take a picture of himself with the stock. His articulation was not great either. But it turned out well. Guess I was lucky. Thanks.

How was his articulation? Did he start out his message "Hey buddy ..." Always a giveaway. Sad that this is some overseas scammer's best work. Pathetic. He/she needs a career change for sure. Back to herding elephants. Or bombing Ukrainians. See ya!

Interesting. Don't believe I've ever seen anything like that before. How thick are the tang extensions? Where did you find a left hand Model 70 safety?

That is a gnarly wildebeest! Or is it the camera lens? I would love to go on this adventure but ... 3 kudu, 3 gemsbuck, 2 warthog, and 5 springbuck are already on the wall. I guess my 1 hartbeest might be lonely? Gad, I do love to hunt kudu. I'll have to think about this one. Curious...

I'm not sure how a soft boss skull could be properly treated to pass import inspection without the soft material being "boiled away." Keep in mind there is underlying living tissue beneath the horn that must be treated and stabilized for inspection. A beautiful shoulder mount that stinks of...

I hunt pheasants now mostly on a very large US federal refuge where nontoxic shot is required. Pheasants aren't as tough as waterfowl but finding steel loads that aren't for waterfowl has become very difficult. For the past couple of years I have even been forced to shoot 3" twelve gauge...

I think the message to be taken away here is be aware of the drawbacks involved in shooting a soft boss bull. If you're paying $10K plus, you deserve a trophy that will be worth that price (+ thousands more taxidermy and shipping!) when the crate is unpacked. The PH should know up front (as in...

I'm not sure it would be poor skinning practice in this case as PH and tracker/skinner both knew I only wanted a skull mount. That flap of cartilage probably would not look right stuck on a bleached skull. Incidentally, this buffalo bull was one of only two skulls that were ready to hang on...

I don't put much stock in that formula. Those British "bird hunters" are usually just standing in one spot while loaded guns are handed to them. No hiking involved. And looking at the videos of those pheasant shoots, the long barreled SxS shotguns used sure look to me to be heavier than 5.5...

The roll of skin between and around bosses is something akin to cartilage. It is separate from both horn and hide. I watched my tracker pull it off when cleaning my bull's skull. It pulled away from both horn and hide in a light colored thick rubbery flap of t-shaped flesh. It was not boiled...

Okay. Space station debris could fall on him too I guess. Don't forget your tinfoil hat. :D

PH is always in front in DG country. I have trouble picturing a scenario where a licensed PH would not be in a "position to intervene" if "it hits the fan."

Interesting. Thanks for that perspective.

Look closely and you can see the tear in thigh of my wool pants where this one hooked me just after I started the carcass downhill. I rode him about fifty yards before we slammed into a small Doug fir. Pulled that bull over a mile down the mountain to a logging skid road ... by myself. In the...

Scope covers don't help when I roll down the mountain and fall on my gun.

Cheney was born in Nebraska one state away from Texas and educated in Wyoming. Hardly makes him a "Yankee."

Scope was quick detached and stowed in my daypack. Weather was terrible as was footing. Empty chamber and iron sights for those conditions.

Ah yes, Texas. Wasn't that where "Trigger" Cheney shot his buddy in the face while quail hunting? When hunting big game here and in Montana, a round is usually in the chamber. But I'm always hunting alone. In really rough country I will remove the round from chamber. A bit different...

When we are after buffalo, a round is in the chamber.

First time in sixty years. It was only a momentary delay and I didn't take my eyes off the running gemsbuck so don't know what caused it. Jam probably is an overstatement. The shell hung up going into the chamber but as I recall it still fed and fired okay. I didn't lose my composure. No...

Yes, it is a soft boss bull, I see that now. The quality of the photo on the ground was not very good. Those bosses were too good to be true. Soft boss I mistook for mud on hard boss. My PH won't let me shoot a soft boss bull.

Not the same. No doubt about it.

Sorry, I had to rush off and close up that post quickly. Any time I'm hunting with strangers in a strange way (i.e. not solo), I'm showing them courtesy hunting next to them with an empty chamber. Hunting uplands with a round(s) in the chamber is pretty much essential. In most cases it is NOT...

I think this is why I am not comfortable having a loaded chamber when hunting with my PH and tracker. I have a lifetime of extensive experience hunting ... alone. There is a big difference. Don't recall sweeping or pointing the gun inadvertently at anyone nor has it ever been called to my...

Wow. Carrying the rifle on the shoulder with bolt not locked down and hunting dangerous game just does NOT make sense to me. I know first hand how easily an unlocked bolt can inadvertently fall open and lose the round in the chamber, especially in heavy cover conditions.

Keep your eye out for another classic era used commercial stock. I have actually seen several come up on ebay and go for good prices. Very good in fact. Who wants them? Not long ago a nice one with Schnabel fore end went for a song. I bought this used Mauser aftermarket stock from GunBroker...

Just curious how that works with a lever action. How do you stop shells in the tube feeding into the action while the chamber is being emptied? Do you have to empty the tube magazine one at a time first, close on an empty chamber, then reload the magazine?

When hunting alone, my gun is typically loaded. And I typically hunt alone except in Africa. When I'm forced to hunt with someone else, I usually keep my rifle chamber empty until the final stalk. That is common courtesy. When bird hunting, there's always a round in the chamber. But again...

That glowing blonde spot in the cheekpiece is quite unusual. Should make it easy to spot this rifle if anyone has seen it. The fleur-de-lis checkering is also a bit unusual, especially on the forend. Note the "buds" on both sides of the stem. Gad, I hope you find it.

Good luck on your journey to a new career.

Interesting that the threaded screw hole in the tang of similar Springfield 03-A3 is not quite threaded to the top, preventing the action screw from entering the sear track.

Plus two crossbolts. Did Ruger think it was for shooting tanks? Strange indeed.

I take what they want shot. My first trip I took a sow warthog the first morning. We came on it as we were headed to the farmhouse for lunch. PH says there's one with good tusks, better take it. During the prolonged drought it was difficult finding good tusks as they broke off in hard ground...

I wear hearing aids that I can turn off at the end of the stalk ... if I temember.

Okay, I know this will sound like a stupid question but what is the purpose of two screws in the fore end?

What safety setup does your rifle use? Striker or trigger block? It's also possible your bolt shroud is rubbing against the top of the stock as the bolt is closed. You should be able to see the finish rubbed off the top of stock behind the bolt handle and/or behind the bolt release lever. An...

The striker sear is catching on the receiver tang as the bolt goes forward to be closed. It is either catching on the tang as the sear enters the track in the sear or it may be catching on the action screw protruding into that tang. Loosen the action screw and see if that fixes the problem...

Perhaps its close resemblance to a condom has something to do with the pith helmet's unpopularity?

Seventy-five yards is usually the max. Most PHs want clients shooting at fifty yards. I did take my first one at 100 meters. Frontal shot in the heart. It was late in the afternoon too. Later that year I questioned my PH on the range. That's when he told me the lodge generally requires...

Nothing wrong with that wildebeest. Very impressive bosses. Maybe go easy on the four-letter expletives. Kids and ladies are on here occasionally.

I wonder what the African wears when he comes to hunt North American elk. Filson's wool mackinaw and Stormy Kromer hat? :D

Is that the same as a "flats cap"? Design is borrowed from the highly functional French Foreign Legion service caps.

It boggles my mind how some people think spending a lot of money on stuff equates "quality." It ain't necessarily so. I remember one of my high school chums who put himself majorly into debt to buy a "quality" Jaguar XKE. What a piece of crap! It was in the shop more than on the road. Some...

I learned forty years ago mesh ball caps are useless. Not enough weight to stay put on my head. They were the signature golf attire until Tilley came along. I will admit it's very hard these days to find a good ballcap that fits size 7.5" head. I guess it's because all ballcaps are now made...

Those Tilley hats are practical indeed. I just can't bring myself to be branded as an old guy ... even if I am. So I wear what I've always worn hunting: a ball cap BRIM FACING FORWARD! And NO flat brim. And no ratty purposed worn spots. I am not a skinny pants millennial or a monster truck...

:D We must be related. My thinking exactly. I go to Africa to hunt, not to parade in a style show. But expect to take some heat from the Stewart Granger lookalikes. Did you catch the thread about the +$1K handmade fur felt safari hats? I posted a photo of my similar $20 crushable wool felt...

Thanks. I couldn't see the floorplates in that image. So floorolate/trigger guard is retained; just the walls of mag box are modified. Does that require cutting them off and reattached or simply bending? I have a P14 junker I'm considering building into something. Guppy belly doesn't turn...

So, the trigger guard is not attached to magazine box? I note the military trigger guard is still on the M17 but mag box has been changed to smaller capacity.

I'm a ballcap guy. Sun is usually not a problem the end of August on the Eastern Cape of South Africa. I can always splash on sun block as needed. Ballcap allows me to pull on hood when needed.

I can't imagine for what. Caribou have been off the menu for years. Lynx? Nope. It's marketable fur bearing species. Possibly wolf but I doubt it. Definitely not black bear. They are not on the CITES list. Except maybe the white ones in BC.