Recent content by C.W. Richter

The cocoa industry is gearing up for the next boom. Poacher-smugglers now remark how they'd like to get a pair of 10 mg'ers!! Next they'll be bagging up clean air...

It's 2991 now. ;) I remember Ronnie Blackbeard saying there were 170,000 elephants there. I believe it's less now, not due to hunting...Lion chow for some Savuti specialist prides!!

'So many pages here, 'uncertain whether or not I chimed in about this prior...In my career, I have done a LOT of work for former Wright Bros. facilities that went by many diff. co. names over the years, but Curtiss of NY and the Wrights of OH teamed up and Curtiss-Wright became the largest...

Bows too-prior and BB guns! LOL I far preferred the Crosman (Rem) 766 over the 760 (and the copperheads in the milk cartons shot better groups than those expensive RWS pellets (Rem ensured it)! lol And a Bear Whitetail II compound, all paid for by a paper route (8%) and hard work cutting lawns...

I can remember that same anticipation of getting an actual license at 12 (but That's a gov't. thing, NOT a hunting thing.) I was taken out hunting from 3-11 sans any license. And God bless the statute of limitations (and the newer mentor programs for younger kids!!) LOL Bought my first guns...

Yeah...same here re: my Dad's Mom (Precisely as you describe). Though I never met her (I LOVED my G. Father on Dad's side-Also amazing, but then he re-married with a woman that was a (better-looking) carbon copy of the 1st. LOL ('Creatures of habit!) All the characters I mentioned were on...

LOL Addendum - thinking about hunting w/ my 93 y/o G. G. in the early 1970s, I am reminded that my parents would take us camping ALL over the US and CN...but I remember the first whitetails I encountered (or recalled as a toddler) were in the Green Mtns. of VT...I was SO enamored that my parents...

Codified in the DNA in my family. G. Grandfather taking me out (and him getting a nice buck with his elders' plains rifle when I was about 3.) That was THAT, and I knew it prior! The concrete jungle I can completely attest to....it's phony, and for sale to all who care to pay. I've been...

Name it for ea bbl: Dick & Jane. (That way, when you take it out hunting, you can have Fun with Dick & Jane!) Or... The most direct Swahili phrase for a fat woman is mwanamke mnene. Other common terms describing a heavy or chubby woman include mnene (fat/thick), mwanamke mwenye mwili (a woman...

Love "Uncle Roy's" creations! 'Have Mk Vs in .257 and 6.5-300, and have shot friends' in 7 300 and 340. Phenomenally accurate (and it's due in part that that HUGE action w/ 9 lugs!) They can be heavy, but worth the extra heft. The 6.5-300 is all carbon (excepting the action and inner bbl.)...

Do you know Les Claypool? He grew up in that area and LOVES fishing (has written many songs about it! Many funny ones involving the dumping of cheese off-shore to drive the price up, etc. Send it to Africa!) I think he/his wife finally got to the point where they bought a winery! All he...

My Grandfather RIP was an exec for a "stevedoring" Co. that did shipping, tugboating and airport shipments by land. *He used to bring the C&H individual sugar packet (for hotels, restaurants, institutions, etc.) home and up to a fam vaca place when I was a kid. Though I've driven around and...

I like them! (M77s-all variants. NOT the newer, non M77 variants.) Ruger is famed for being tough, actions being too tight and triggers way too heavy!! Shot a pile of old wood/blued M77s owned by elders as a kid, then later picked up a MkII in 22-250...After some valve lapping compound...

The whole thing is interesting, but 28:30ish to your inquiry and other points above (he praises NF bullets in his books)... but he's talking specifically about a 375 (the legal min. in many places.) The shot placement/results comments are spectacular...

Agreed fully on the SST (used 'em a bunch on deer.) I did seem some higher velocity uh-ohs using RN bullets...the V has to be suitable for them (not orig. designed for high V rigs. 06s, 757, etc. N/P!) I did see one Nos 160 disintegrate very badly w/ poor penetration in a 6.5 mag, original...