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Looks like a 375 blown out with a longer taper (improved feeding). It appears it is the same length cartridge as the 375 so should fit in the same length action. Open the bolt face, re-chamber, ream a new barrel. In other words, unless someone makes a factory, you are looking at a custom gun...

Caribou are not particularly difficult to bring down. Your load is fine. Make sure you have plenty of bug dope and good rain gear.

Last year, I spent six days in the Kalahari, southeast Namibia, hard by the Botswana border. While generally flat, I spent six days walking in sand and up and down sand dunes, glassing and stalking. This was not walking on the beach in your barefeet, but up and down dunes that were probably...

They are not the same and you really should get a current loading manual and develop your loads off the starting recommendations therein.

Yes.

The single best thing you can do is purchase a current, bound reloading manual from one of the component or bullet manufacturers. Most experienced reloaders have several. Nosler is a good one that I like.

That is a reasonable amount

Booked a duck hunt on the Platte River, west of Omaha, Nebraska, traveling from the Baltimore area. Details on where to meet guide were a little sketchy, but we found him in the morning. He takes us to the blind which is a pit in a sandbank on the river. Nothing wrong with that. Right...

I've made two trips to Africa and both times the PH was gratified to see me show up with a 375 H&H. My trip last year to Namibia - 4 animals, 4 shots.

Two trips to Africa and many others in the US, Canada and Mexico over the past 30 years and I start about a week in advance putting out the "gear" and clothes. Finish it up the day prior to departure.

Go to Cabela's. Buy the smaller size, green plastic ammo box which is set up to take a lock = on sale $8. Go to Wal-mart. Cheap (oops, I mean inexpensive) padlock = $2. Total = $10 Don't overanalyze this stuff, as is so correctly noted above.

All you have to do is look to the proliferation of hunting shows on cable TV. 30-something's who know everything and tell the PH or guide what to do and how to do it. Camo paint on their face in a deer blind! Yelling and hollering. Looking at the camera with a smug grin. This will be my...

I find it a bit difficult to understand anything other than you pull the trigger, you are responsible. You wounded it and the PH made a decision to back you up or end the animal's life humanely, that's called being a grown-up and accepting the consequences of your actions. Telling the PH he...

Most exellent!

I'm curious - those seem to be relatively long shots. Did you tell your PH you did not want to stalk closer?