Recent content by 318AE

Small stuff is good stuff. I shot three position small bore mostly.

Welcome aboard. What kind of competitive shooting do you do? You’re in good company here.

While they are super cool, their value is really only as a collector item - to place on a shelf in your trophy room or similar. Once you open it, it has less value. You will almost certainly find some non-reloadable, berdan primed, cordite loaded ammunition. It’s no longer reliable...

I think people are hung up on the 100 year old sectional density thing because it’s reliably worked for over 100 years.

A RSM in 404 Jeffery would be great. I understand they didn’t really make money on the RSM in the first place, so I doubt that will ever happen. A #1 in 404 just seems like a really odd duck to me. The 404 was designed to be a bolt action cartridge with similar ballistics to the flanged...

Welcome. Nothing quite like having something to sell the first day you join. Maybe the original bolt had a Timney wing safety? A lot of 318s had extractors on the bolt. Good luck with the sale,

I don’t think black wildebeest are indigenous to Namibia. I think they are a Karoo species. Namibia is a great choice for a first safari. If you choose that, I recommend you stay with the native species endemic to that area - gemsbok, kudu, springbok, warthog, Hartman’s mountain zebra are all...

Try a different set of full length resizing dies and make sure your a sizing all the way down.

I’m not too excited by a 45/70 double, but it depends on which 45/70 load its regulated. 45/70 really runs the gamut from some from some pretty anemic black powder type loads, to some more interesting modern loads. 450/400 would be much, much more popular; but I get it, you’re running a...

no PH has ever been disappointed with a client that shows up to camp with a pre 64 70 in 375…..

4x scope can be a lot for buffalo or elephant

I was fortunate enough to hunt gemsbok in the red dunes of the Namib-Nauklauft, near Sossusvlei, on my first safari over 25 years ago. I didn’t appreciate how special that hunt was at the time. It remains the only gemsbok I’ve taken. Mountain zebra in the Hartman’s remains a memorable hunt as...

I hope I never tire of hunting bushbuck. I’ve still hunted Masai bushbuck in the misty mountains of Tanzania, stalked riverine thickets for Limpopo bushbuck, and have even hunted them with my treasured 318 WR drop lock double. They are sneaky and sly. They can be aggressive. On the old...

I’ve hunted four different GMAs in Masailand, including both sides of Lake Natron. When I head back next month, I’m going to Adam’s area on the east side of Natron…. It’s perhaps my favorite area in Africa.

Some outfitters allow you to “license up” and some do not. You can always talk to them about it of course. There is generally much less quota for the species on the longer license, and the outfitter runs the risks of not having quota for the hunters that season that are staying longer, if...