Recent content by grand veneur

In my opinion it depends on which country you shot the elephant. If tusks are exportable outside this country and importable in your country, then surely other parts of elephants, tusked or tuskless, are also exportable. Since everything is listed under CITES, you have perhaps the same procedure...

The cartridge 458 African is in my opinion something different than just a longer cartridge 458 Lott. Normally the latter is called 458 African Express or just 458 Express, but it seems to me that there are constant mix-ups. We recently discussed this as @Gert Odendaal was looking for a chamber...

The designation 7.9 or 8mm Mauser is somewhat misleading for a continental European, as it should normally refer to the cartridge 8x57IS and not 8x57I.

The brass is fixed in the self-made tool, a hole is punched into the primer using the pointed pin and the hammer, and then the primer is pried out. Work perfectly with the 6,45mm primers from CBC.

I have only bagged a few moose in my life, but all with the cartridge 9,3x64 Brenneke. I am not so sure if you need such a large caliber, because other hunters have achieved the same results with the cartridge 30-06 Springfield.

In my countries, the caliber 9,3mm was in the past the standard when it came to shoot wild boar's.

As far as DIY hunting in Africa is concerned, hunting buffalo alone is above all dreaming. It is simply not possible to do it completely alone, because who among us can perfectly assess and follow a buffalo track, and also perfectly identify the game? This means that in every case, you are...

I don't know why, but there is a particular atmosphere surrounding this topic again. This does more harm than good.

I don't understand where this discussion is drifting in. So far, I have not negotiated with Spear Safaris about hunting in Uganda and therefore have not rejected any offers.

These are not assumptions; we were planning a hunt in Karamoja North for early this year. That involved significantly more than $2,000 USD for the charter. Divided among several people, it would have been doable. Unfortunately, nothing came of it because we were only two hunter interested. By...

The hunts in Uganda are certainly not the most expensive in Africa, but the charter flights that were offered to me without any alternative have already driven up the price of a hunt on a 1x1 basis considerably, but this also applies to other hunting areas in Africa.

Karamoja south 1994

There don't seem to be many interested parties. This is probably due to the prices of this hunts and certainly the main reason why many are hesitant to book a hunt in this country. I hunted in Uganda more than 30 years ago, in the southern Karamoja region as well as in the southwest of the...

The rifle is assembled from older and newer parts, carefully I hope. The parts don't match as far time periods are concerned, and the engravings are also no authentic. The comments on the sale offer must also be evaluated very critically. It is allowed to built such rifle, but they must be...

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