Recent content by 112Savage

Gosh I hope that doesn’t happen. Did they negotiate a refund?

Hello, I am hunting with Alfonso in late November this year. Can you tell me about the weather, physicality, gear you wished you had or were thankful you had in advance? I’m most concerned about boots and temperatures. I’m going for Gredos and Mouflon. Thanks in advance

The original picture was a different day hunting. I used that rifle on everything except turkeys.

I will use almost any rifle on a groundhog. This was a 100 yd shoot to test the expansion of the then new 258gr Hammer Hunter bullet that I had Steve and Brian design.

Zastava left hand. I’ve taken it to Africa for a plains game safari. Beautiful wood for a “cheap” rifle

I bought some 145 LRX to try in my 280AI. I cleaned my barrel first but found a screaming and accurate load with RL23. I haven’t killed a deer yet but it goes through 7 jugs of water easily at 110yds and is accurate at 600 as well WBY backcountry guide 1-9” twist

Try 160 Accubond. The 160 ballistic tip could be the whitetail bullet. They have the same profile, so should shoot similarly

The bullet that the petals sheared off is the 258 hammer hunter. That is its design and it works wonderfully. I killed all of my plains game from my only trip to Africa with that bullet and was not left wanting.

Limpopo 2021

Unfortunately the answer will be; it depends. If it will still hold a primer, I keep on using it. If it won’t, then it’s trash. I have a lot of brass that looks like this and keeps on trucking with lower (normal pressure) loads

The beauty of the 6.5 creedmoor is that most rifles shoot almost all bullets well. It also shoots them at a good velocity. Sure there are many that send the same bullet faster, but at what cost? 143ELDX 42.1gr RL16 2735fps 160 45-46gr superformance sierra/hornady 2630fps 130 sierra HPBT or TGK...

@Philip Glass is right. I wonder if some of the animals we ate would not have been better if they had hung longer. I had no real complaints, but since we were the first hunters there in over a year due to COVID closures, it wasn’t like their refrigerator had a ton of hanging carcasses. I really...

Sable- tenderloins, taste was good but very tough Impala- backstraps very good, tender Springbok- leg roast, very similar in texture and taste to whitetail Warthog- definitely pork- similar to wild boar Zebra- tenderloins- marinated in Italian dressing and grilled. Amazing Gemsbok- ground...

Wow! That doesn’t look new!

I only used 100gr sierra SBT, 117 sierra SBT, and 115 Berger VLD. For whitetail in Southwestern Virginia my longest shot was less than 300yds and exit wounds were not common. My last load was a max load of Retumbo (Berger manual) and 115 Berger at 3200 fps from the 26” barrel. I also used...