Recent content by BenH2016

RANCE SAFARIS

I used to hunt a fair bit back in the late 90s, all my hunting buddies and I used 30/06s. Back then I imagine it was due to availability and the fact that that cartridge is a great killer of PG. One year we got buffalo tags and my one buddy took his first buff with his trusty 30/06. he crawled...

@Janos Szabo thanks. There's a 4th one to add now, a Brno in .243. Also the 30-06 in the far left has had a stock refurbishment done. I should add a new picture!

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Some reports coming in are that perhaps these unfortunate people were not so close to the elephants. The lady that died was apparently quite familiar with wild animals having been a safari guide at some point in Tanzania. They were not actually taking photos. The truth is that with human...

This is the second instance of an elephant killing tourists in Zambia this year, a German man was sadly killed near lower Zambezi national park at Easter. In both cases the reports have been that the people got too close to the elephants. I've camped at maramba river lodge in Livingstone before...

I have a CZ 550 in .416 Rigby that I haven't yet taken hunting but hope to use on Buffalo this year. Last year I shot my first Buff using a friends ZKK602 in .375 HandH. That rifle was date stamped 1968 and the first time I fired it it was pointing at a buffalo. We found the buff down and...

I love loved Laurens Van Der Posts's books A Far off Place and A Story Like the Wind. Herman Charles Bosman's short stories are also ever entertaining.

I know a fair few people right here in Zambia who can't say Namibia. A good PH friend of mine calls it Nanibia all the time, and he lives right by the border and goes there frequently. This Trump fellow gets a lot of bad press, I don't follow US politics so dont have an informed opinion to...

Before and after:

About 18 coats sanded in with progressively finer paper, then 20 coats rubbed in by hand.

I put the rifile back together a month ago. Before I did that I buffed it with a soft cloth. Since then I've put another coat of oil on and will do so once a month for a while. I'm fairly pleased. The oiled finish looks and feels great, even with open pores. The detail in the grain that the oil...

Well you've decided the 500NE is going with you, you've clearly got a lovely double that you are very fond of so why wouldn't you take it after buffalo. I would say tho that it's probably more than you need. I also agree with others that 3 guns is too many. That said when I go hunting later...

Some interesting discussion here on which is the preferred 375 and on rifle weight. I'll add my 2c. I didn't know there was any 375 other than HandH until I started reading this forum. I've spent my whole life living in Zambia with lots of hunting friends. Does my ignorance of alternative 375s...