Recent content by C.W. Richter

A quick search shows there are no fewer than 3 mfrs that sell 375 Dakota ammo online. IF you're a reloader, you only have to buy it once. It is like $5-$10/rd but you can get it! I'd just look at it as paying for Brass, but I'd not want to lose my ammo at the airport(s) in Africa in that...

This is with a complete rebarrel so the 404 Dakota was a good call, but the 375 Blaser is interesting.

You should be able to have brass made/resized for the existing Dakota.

.500 options lol

'Couldn't help but see what the options were (the first cut inquiry results were comical!)

What are you hunting with the rifle? Never heard of that cartridge(s). Looks like 2000-2,200ish fps (mimicking one of the old NE cartridges using 400 gr bullets.) 416 Taylor just makes better sense to me for DG (same length, but as much steam as any of the 416s.) We'd like to see videos of...

I can imagine the cost of a lot of things being rediculous down under for obvious reasons. That said, Woodleigh PSPs are excellent (also super expensive and highly unavailable up here.) 'Love the 160 .264s (and their shorter DG caliber FMJs that allow for more powder-a GREAT thing in a 458 WM...

'Same exact comments as 416 on the .338 ('have an A-Sq that's essentially Art Alphin's design that faded and was brought back by Wby using the radiused shoulder. A-Sq.'s later ammo utilized .338-378 (Wby/Norma) brass. Mickey mouse groups using 98-102.5 gr of RL25 and IMR 7828 and CCI 250s...

"The construction of the Nosler Partition bullet has been refined multiple times since its inception in 1947–1948, with the most significant manufacturing changes occurring in the early 1950s and again around 1970. Nosler Key historical changes to the Nosler Partition construction include...

Just dry sarcasm from an INTJ. NPTs perform very well. Who cares about a fraction of additional money as compared to the cost of safaris (and just about everything else in life now??) Most of my bills are double now (so I'd far rather be paying for Partitions that cost far less!) For non-DG...

*shadow stripe (extra stripes!) And a very knowledgeable retired PH once spoke of the U. Zambezi Zebra whose name got eliminated and thrown into the more general mix (they did the same thing here in the US with whitetail deer-there are many subspecies, but most are just lumped together these...

Trivia perhaps, but do you know the subspecies of Zebra in the area? I've seen a lot of PHs call Zebra Plains or Burchelle's when they're really another subspecies or a mixture of two...such as the Chapman's with the stripe! I saw a lot of 'em in the Caprivi and Zimbabwe, so I have to think...

*If I weren't spending a safari a month on a group of Amish craftsmen, I'd take you up on this. Maybe '27? Are you allowed to used lead-tipped bullets in the Copperbelt??

Two bits of trivia re: the former LEMCO property. I personally don't like "extracts." Just eat meat! But, I get it for wartime and being out in the bush. (He's like the American Dr. Borden that invented condensed milk (for the Civil War). 'Cleaned up a LOT of his properties under the Elmer...

We used to simply use rolling tires on a hill (can easily reach 30+ MPH, easy to change angles and your backstop is a hill of soil.) 'Can either affix cardboard of the appropriate color (au naturale for brown bear, black for buff or bear) on one or both sides, and then shooting at the tread...