Recent content by grand veneur

All my Kynoch cartridges 577 Nitro Express have Berdan primers, but they can easily be replaced with new ones.

I had more cartridges, but not in boxes. Since the rifle and the ammunition came from Nairobi, I did not know how it had been stored and also assumed that all the unpackaged cartridges were sometime in the field. I disassembled that all. The Cordite was mostly decomposed. I destroyed the big...

The market is shifting. I am at the shooting range of my hunting association every week and I see what kind of rifles the younger hunters use. All rifles with synthetic stocks, shorter barrels, and suppressors. Rifles with wooden stocks are increasingly associated with high class hunting rifles...

These must be a very old ammo box from Norma, perhaps from the fifties or early sixties, but I don't remember when Norma using such boxes. Further evidence for an old age are the unformed brass for the cartridge 300 H&H Magnum, a cartridge which, like other cartridges, were first loaded with...

We all used such bullets for shooting heavier game back in the seventies and eighties, but never heavy DG. As @matt85 wrote, using FMJ bullets or solids for buffalo hunting was the norm during those times and that well into the nineties. Many FMJ bullets that were still in use, as @Hunter-Habib...

According to the lot numbers, the ammunition dates from the fifties and early sixties.

Everything is loaded with Cordite. I have shot quite a few rounds of them, but I would for a lot of reasons not use them for hunting.

I am not an expert of Ruger firearms, and I have never owned one, but I shot few weeks ago an elephant with the model quoted below. It was a borrowed rifle from a game department, but I can give a positive account of this type of rifle in terms of manufacturing, precision, and perfectly quickly...

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that someone put the marks on the rifle, no an official proof house.

What kind of rifle is this? I cannot identify the proof marks as absolutely British because normally there are much more signs. Some appear to have been added later. Be careful with this rifle.

Choosing the right bullet is not easy either, as it has to be suitable for both PG and DG. However, this should not to be a too big problem, because any bullet caliber 375 suitable for buffalo is also suitable for PG.

Unfortunately, there is no ideal zeroing distance, and also no general rules regarding shooting distances, whether for PG or DG. It is better to use different rifles. In all cases, compromises have to be made with a rifle that has to be versatile. Therefore, it is best for Africa to zeroing your...