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South Carolina Fish and Game did a survey on cartridge and bullet effectiveness a few years back. Deer shot with a 25-06 went less far after being shot than any other cartridge. SC deer tend to be small bodied so it doesn’t mean much for elk, but I thought it was interesting.

You can buy new guns meeting your specifications from Fabarm, Connecticut Shotgun, Dickinson, Fox (not the original) and several Turkish manufacturers. The Fabarm and Fox are in the $3-4000 range. Forgot Rizinni and Beretta. The Beretta 486 is about $6000.

My favorite sunscreen is from Shiseido, which is an expensive Japanese cosmetics company. I tried some that my wife bought and won’t use anything else. Because it is not aromatic I can use it near my eyes without my eyes burning. It is very expensive but I don’t use a lot. Later I found out it...

To quote Yogi “Predictions are difficult but particularly when they are about the future” But my favorite”Predicting the future is betting against God””

It depends a lot where you are hunting. My buddy who lives in Idaho and owns property in the Lemhi mountains started with a Ruger 77 in 338. He killed massive bulls with it but it got heavier each year. It was replaced by a REM 700 Mountain Rifle in 30/06, which was replaced by a Kimber Mountain...

I have a long post about the legal rationale behind insider trading by Congress. Congressmen have no fiduciary duty to the company or shareholders and do not expropriate the company’s property.

You will have a great trip. Shoot straight.

Several economic studies show the value of that dispersed knowledge. Two examples: 1. Guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. The average of all the guesses will be very close to the actual number. 2. Who wants to be a millionaire? In this game show you can ask an expert or poll the...

My neighbors went on a gorilla/watching tour to Rwanda last year. It cost $16,000 per person plus flight. They combined it with a regular Botswana trip that preceded it. The wife started working out with a personal trainer a year in advance to get in shape for the trip. Apparently the gorillas...

I was going to post the same thought about other rifles offered at bargain prices that haven’t sold. It is a bear market in guns now.

I only have TSA pre-check, which is very useful boarding in the USA. Although I don’t have global entry, going through immigration and customs has been easy. Leaving Spain my wife presented my passport instead of hers and mine got stamped. We look very different. She is a short Asian woman and...

I have a set of custom mounded plugs. For hunting I put in the left one and leave the right one out. I can hear everything from my right ear while my left ear is protected from the muzzle blast. For a right handed person the left ear takes most of the muzzle blast.

Thank you for the report. I just got back from walking the Camino de Santiago. Our walk was entirely in Galicia. One place we stayed, Casa de Los Somozas had three racks in the wall of the dining room. I thought they were small red stag until I realized that they are huge roe deer. I love the...

Right now I am doing the Camino Frances from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela Spain. It is 112 km total. The way is quite hilly. Total elevation gain is 9800 feet. Originally it was a pilgrimage to the body of St James but many non-religious are doing it. The terrain and vistas are magnificent...

Smith and Wesson Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. It is the target version of the model 10. Adjustable sights, target trigger and target hammer. Mine has the best trigger on any revolver that I ever shot. It is used for US Revolver Assn competition. It was originally for Police Positive...

I have 2. A Contender in 41 mag that I use for egg shoots at my club and for hogs close up. The other is the Scandium framed S&W model 357. No, it is not a 357 mag. The 41 mag is Model 57. The light framed guns have a 3 prefix. It weighs about 17 oz. It is a carry gun for bow hunting in grizzly...

Thank you for the report. The blackbuck has great mass and is very wide. Congratulations.

You are close. The experience that Teddy Roosevelt had against the Spanish with their 7x57 rifles led to an upgrade from the 30/40 Krag and the 03 Springfield.

The requirement is much more stringent than “several”. AACSB accreditation requirements insist on half the program being outside of business and have strict minima on science math English, history and philosophy courses. My colleagues in LA always said that LA programs teach students to think...

I had the same guide the following week. His name is Ezequiel, which is the Spanish form of Ezekiel. I speak some Spanish so we didn’t have a problem communicating. His eyesight was impressive. He could spot animals in the woods in shadows that I had trouble picking out with binoculars. Will do...

Congratulations. I was in Argentina for red stag the following week. Will do a report soon.

A good way to blouse your pants is to wrap the cuffs with duct tape sticky side out. If they try to crawl up the outside of your pants they get stuck. And spray with permethrin.

There are lots of YouTube videos of shotgun buckshot deer hunts in North Carolina or South Carolina. Almost everyone uses a Browning long recoil Auto-5 12 gauge. A long time ago I hunted with a large club in Upstate SC. The club would put out 15-20 drivers and 15-20 standers. Almost everyone...

If you start at 1970 when the price was 36 cents a gallon the 2022 adjusted price was 2.86. Prices were unusually high in 1978, which was right after the Arab oil embargo and at the beginning of a vicious inflation period. Although the government figures say 36 cents a gallon in 1970 I was...

I would rather hunt hogs than deer and certainly would rather eat hog than deer. We take out the loins and tenderloins with the rest becoming ground pork. The ground pork is used for dumplings or lion’s head or for topping ramen. My wife is Asian and ground pork is a staple. Her dumplings made...

This is a heart shot on a moose. The first shot was at a high angle because it was directly under my tree stand. It stumbled a few yards and I shot it again behind the shoulder for a heart shot. At that point it folded like a lawn chair. The bullet was in the offside front quarter. The petals...

JES teboring can convert a 30/06 to 35 Whalen or 9.3x62. He did a 30/30 to 38/55 for me.

Thank you for mentioning Patek. The Patek Calatrava is my very favorite watch. Maybe someone will mention Jaeger LeCoultre. Both are very well regarded among watch cognoscenti.

Brass or loaded ammunition for 6.5x284 is fairly easy to find. Nosler has it in stock now. Norma makes brass and ammo and Lapus makes some fine brass. I had my 6.5x284 built before the 6.5 PRC or the 6.5 RPM were available. If I was to do it now it would be 6.5 PRC. Everybody makes one and...

The Board of Directors of the largest companies in the world have 8 to 15 directors. The academic research on board size indicates that smaller boards are better and large boards are bad. NRA is an example.

An ozone generator will work with deer. It will not work with pigs. I don’t know about bears but they are in the pig family so it might not work on bears.

I paid $850 ten years ago for a drilled and tapped later model for Bullseye competitions.

Be warned that Mandarin is extremely difficult to learn. I am fluent in French and Spanish but have a lot of difficulty in Mandarin, which I consider to be multiple times more difficult than French or Spanish. The couple of westerners I know who are fluent in Mandarin immersed themselves in it...

I would not go that far as to say it is not the place although it is not the best place and nowhere near DSC or SCI. Last year there were at least 6 AH sponsors and it was easy to have good conversations with them. Many of the attendees were not interested in safaris so the lines were not long...

June and July are probably the worst months for hunting hogs. Hogs do not like heat and become nocturnal and dormant. I am going to Waccamaw Hunting in South Carolina in about two weeks. Hunting has been good because the recent cold weather and rain has pushed them out of the rivers and into the...

Desert Dog Outdoors has a YouTube video titled Remington 870: Rise and fall of an icon. It details the steps to get an 870 Express functioning properly. The Cerberus era guns were particularly problematic.

Hi I lived in Philadelphia from 1985 until 1997 when I moved to New Jersey but worked in Philadelphia until retirement in 2021. I lived first in Society Hill and then in Spring Garden. Where in Philadelphia do you live??

The most problem with insider trading charges is that insider trading is prosecuted under the “expropriation” legal theory. It basically means that the company owns the information and that information was stolen from the company and used for personal benefit. Since trading by politicians does...

Are you interested in Nantucket Shoals for fluke? I go 2 or 3 times every year. The problem is that all the 6 packs are chartered. You can probably get a spot with the Helen H group of boats out of Hyannis. There is also lots of striped bass fishing closer to shore. George’s Bank for cod and...

Several of my neighbors have gone on photo safaris to Africa. One neighbor has gone 4 or 5 times. That is when I learned that it is over $1000 a day to ride in a Land Cruiser and take pictures of animals. The photographers are not allowed to leave the vehicle. Last year one of my neighbors went...

Rather than bullet choice, it is probably more important to have a light rifle or a handgun. Where I hunt there are two directions-uphill and downhill and always in snow. Running uphill in snowshoes is very tiring by itself without carrying a heavy gun.

When I lived in Connecticut I shot skeet with an excellent shooter who had a Diana grade Superposed. When it was time to go to the state championship he switched to a Remington 1100.

I have both. The 280 is a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle I bought new around 1990. The 270 is an FN Mauser from the 1950s that I bought to have a Mauser. I like them both. The Mauser action feels better but the Remington stock feels better and balances better. The 280 has a long history with me...

I missed the entire deer season due to a triple bypass procedure on September 12. The cardiologist said that I should wait six months. He doesn’t know that I have a 375 H&H and should probably wait longer before shooting it. There is always next year, unless I am no longer upright. Have fun...

At trap or sporting clay shoots or silhouette matches the etiquette is to carry your firearm with the muzzle in the air. If a shotgun goes off with the muzzle down the shot could ricochet off the concrete pad. Similarly when quail hunting, carrying muzzle down often points it directly at a dog.

In 2019 my wife and I did a tour of Central Europe - including Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Budapest. I didn’t even think of going to gun shops because I knew I couldn’t buy anything. I also avoided the red light district of Amsterdam for the same reason. The highlight of the trip for me was the...

Back when I was living in Northwestern Ontario the Dept of Lands and Forests had a $55 bounty for each wolf. In 1960 that was a lot of money. You could also sell the pelt to an American. Before wolves were introduced to Yellowstone there was a good elk hunt in Montana mid-winter for elk...

If you don’t need lessons or help, you can rent horses at the corral next to Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park. The scenery is incredible and there are hundreds of trails through the park. We stayed at Many Glacier Hotel for a week in June 2023 and thoroughly enjoyed it. My wife is an...

A hunting buddy found a Hobart meat grinder at the dump. It only needed a new on/off switch. He used it to turn my hog into ground pork last year. He makes the best venison sausage you ever tasted.