Recent content by chashardy

Agree: not sure about rifling in a shotgun--but that aside, the DT11 is a superb sporting clays shotgun. I shoot one and I can really say it has made me a much better shooter. Perfectly balanced and designed with very minimal felt recoil. If you are serious about sporting clays, this is a...

416 Rigby with Federal's 400g Trophy Bonded Bear Claw

And, did you ever notice that guns on TV and movies apparently have no recoil?

I admit I got hooked on the Yellowstone TV show and it's spinoffs. The prequel 1923 has a character--Spencer Dutton--who is introduced while hunting in Africa. He dispatches a couple of problem leopards with his double rifle, which to me looks like a 375H&H. In a later episode in Season 2, he...

Sounds like you have your paperwork done for getting your rifles into Australia. I did a buffalo hunt in the Northern Territory in 2023 and my outfitter handled all the paperwork. You will have to meet with Australian police after you go through customs to clear your rifles. And they are very...

Beretta makes the SuperLegerro (sp??) which is a light weight model designed with women shooters in mind. Also consider the Beretta A400 Extreme Plus that has the recoil reducing system. Almost no felt recoil and she could use it on upland game, ducks, etc. when not shooting clays. I agree...

I have hunted 4 times with Eric Visser at Quagga Safaris. First class operation on 57000 acre Manketi Reserve. Beautiful accommodations, great food and excellent game.

Ditto on 300 winmag. I've taken a couple of dozen plains game animals, from stenbock to eland with the 300 winmag, using 200gr Federal TBBC or Nosler Partition.

Great bulls! Congratulations. The mounts are beautiful.

First safari, 30.06 180 gr. Next 4 safaris, 300 winmag with 200 gr. Federal Nosler partition or Trophy Bonded Bear Claw.

The Botanist gin, and Q TONIC with a healthy wedge of lime.

The Rigby is an amazing rifle and hard to beat. I took it to Australia in 2023 to hunt buffalo. I shot my bull on the second day at about 80 yards. Frontal shot and he dropped in his tracks. Same with a scrub bull the next day. Then we did some culling of donkeys and I was shooting off hand...

I originally bought a Model 70 Safari Express 375H&H for my hunt in 2018, which I booked at the 2017 DSC show. After the show and before my hunt I found a Chapuis 375 H&H double online at William Larkin Moore. The price (below $9000) was too good to pass up, so I made an offer which was...

Welcome Dave! Big fan of your tv shows.

Might be an opportunity for one of the bigger companies to acquire the sporting rifle division of VC. Beretta acquired both Chapuis and Holland & Holland, so both of those companies have the financial stability of Beretta. They probably don't need VC added to their porfolio, but another...