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Mercury recoil reducers are available from many firearms suppliers such as Brownell's. Balance can also be an issue. I'd talk to a qualified gunsmith before I started drilling holes in a walnut stock.

Sorry. My mistake. I meant to reply to swashington. He said that a rifle without a detachable magazine wasn't worth carrying. Not sure how I replied to you.

Not sure why you would think that a detachable magazine would be better than a hinged floor plate on a bolt action hunting rifle. It certainly isn't any safer and I have heard the stories of loose magazines falling out and lost. I had one fall out, I saw it and picked it up, catastrophe avoided...

Doh!

So I've heard. Still jot interested.

Chicken abortions?

Tiger fishing probably won't be good then, but a trip to see Vic Falls and Chobe National Park is well worth the time. We stayed at A'Zambezi in 2022. Nice hotel. They say Victoria Falls Hotel is really good, but it was booked for the time we were going to be there. Talk to Jennifer Ginn at...

I'm not planning on buying any more guns either.....oh, wait.... Look at the .375 that guy is selling!

I've heard that one before. In fact I've used it with my friend who is a urologist. I still can't bring myself to try eating them.

I've always prided myself on eating most anything anyone else will eat, but can't get around the idea of eating anything that holds shit (intestine) or piss (kidney).

Or he could use a nice ladies cologne to attract the bulls...we may be on to something here!

Sounds like your cat took texting lessons from my two Labradors.

Wise ass. Okay. It was funny. ;-) Doug

Personally, I wouldn't unless it matched a bull mount or there was an unforgettable story to go with it. What else do we have mounts for except to capture our memories and to provide background for stories? Or maybe do it just because you want to.

True, but it's still funny!

I think De Niro is the Italian term for dueche bag.

You are right. It does not matter what law enforcement agency is involved. In the US the requirement to use lethal.force is to neutralize a clear threat. The use of lethal force is always, "shoot to stop." It is never "shoot to kill." Yes, that means shooting central body mass and the subject...

People also said that before Trump was elected. We elected him anyway.

Ah, now I see.

That bottom one is a kudu. Right? ;-)

Yeah, but I have a hard time letting go of guns that I built good memories with. It feels like kicking an old friend to the curb. Maybe someday I'll have to sell a rifle and tell.myself it's tough love.

It would be impossible to argue against the .30-06 as a "one gun" for NA. I bought mine as my first rifle (at least the first I actually owned) at 18. Over the years I killed blacktails, a pronghorn, and a black bear. I also took it to Africa for PG on my first safari. I will say though, after a...

You might be right, my mother-in-law once asked why I needed more than one gun. Told her the you really couldn't hunt quail and elk with the same gun. Anyway, after 6 years we're still having fun with the question!

Yes. You have been corrupted as I was about 50 years ago, but it's just so much fun!

Great. Now go into any American sporting goods store and get a box of ammo. I even went into a big Bass Pro store and asked about 9.3x62. The clerk told me he had never heard of that caliber. To be a useful "one gun for all of North America" cartridge it needs to have ammo available. I'm...

Exactly! The original question was one rifle for everything in North America, but I keep buying "one more rifle" to handle a specific "need." First I had my .30-06 about 50 years ago. Then I wanted something that would reach across canyons better, a 7mm RM, 43 years ago. Then I moved to...

Now I just have to ask, what rifle did she use to take the buffalo?

While I'm still curious about what the OP chose six years ago when he asked the question, I'll add.my.opinion: .300 Win. Mag. It has both the horse power and the reach to neatly handle any animal on North America.

The fast food prices are just the tip of the ice berg. Now compare the price at your favorite restaurant from four years ago and now.

Congratulations to your daughter on a very successful safari. And congratulations to you on raising such an impressive young lady! You should both be very proud! Doug

Best of luck!

You'll only look like a douche bag if you carry a gaudy, oversize knife. Any reasonable knife either folding or fixed with a blade up to about 4" is fine. As you said not having any knife at all could qualify you as a douche bag.

Yeah. I'd say so, but better than not having any knife at all

I thought the same thing. My guess is that the buff was already dying and would have tipped over without the the knife wounds. Even so, I will still carry a knife when I hunt anywhere.

Enough said? What exactly did you say? Not everyone was in the military.

I have only killed one zebra. It was a stallion. I was told it was a large one, and I never felt a need to.kill another one. This is the first time that I have read that zebra mares tended to.run larger than males. It sounds like you have shot more zebras than I have. Are the mares bigger?

Hi! So where have you hunted?

Just in case this turns out to be real, I'd suggest you not take him up on an offer to thumb wrestle him for it.

I doubt it will put anything to rest, but I agree with your thinking.

So your point is that two young American missionaries were butchered because of something that supposedly happened a hundred years ago? I see. They meant to do good, but they deserved to die because they were Americans. Right.

I haven't been there, but it looks to me like Haiti has been imploding since it was founded. I don't see anything getting better. If that is how they treat missionaries that want to help, I won't be going there.

This is impossible to understand. My condolences to the families.

Now that I've blown up the picture I can see that. I'd still go for the eland.

Have you considered nyala? I believe they are native to the Limpopo, and look.great on the wall. I killed a great one in Zimbabwe in 2022. Not too far from the area where you're going. Maybe the best hunt on your list is the eland. I haven't taken one on my trips, but now I 'm sorry I didn't...

A 15% VAT Tax is just a down payment on getting your trophies home.

Whether you have skimmers or not carrying a knife with a blade over about 4" in length marks you as someone that really doesn't know what he's doing. In NA you can skin an elk, a moose or a bear with a blade that long. Whenever I run into a deer hunter with a 6" buck knife, I've noticed that he...

I remember when I made my first hunt in Zimbabwe. My PH told me that he thought that safari hunting would be done within 20 years. That was in 1983, 41 years ago. Safari hunting is still going strong. Now having said that, no one knows what the future will bring. No matter what continent you...

I had shoulder mounts done in Zimbabwe on an nyala, a waterbuck, and a bushbuck, Plus a euro mount on a buffalo. Everything fit into one crate. The taxidermy bill was over $4000. Then I got the bill for shipping. It's t was also over $4000. When it arrived at SeaTac, I got another bill for...

Yes, the man is a piece of living history. He landed on the beach on D-Day, became a tank commander, killed a Panzer with it, and was part of the liberating force at Bucanwold (sp?) the death camp, before becoming a guard at Nuremburg. We are supposed to see him next month at the veterans home...

I haven't heard that one, but nothing about the Nazis would surprise me. Just like nothing about the pro Hamas protesters surprises me. Same people, just different generations.