Recent content by grand veneur

Why not, it is certainly a bit early for a foreign hunter, but you can hunt any time of year. l will also be in the area in March.

We certainly don't operate in the same world. Not a negativ meaning, but the USA is not representative of the entire planet when it comes to rifles, and certainly not our Forum either. The majority of hunter I know acquired their more or less expensive double rifle with the appropriate...

I would not use this bullet for that purpose. This bullet was originally designed for hunting heavy dangerous game. Its design is somewhat stronger than that of match bullets or bullets for shooting varmints.

Old ammunition that is no longer manufactured. The bullet is thin-walled and no longer meets today's standards for FMJ bullets used for hunting DG. I also have some of these bullets for reloading my cartridges 9,3x64 Brenneke. I would keep the cartridge in reserve in case one take a rifle...

Primers often fail by such actions, and sometimes pieces of the shells must be pulled out of the chamber. This should not happen while hunting DG, but it is not a major problem at the shooting range. I know all this because I have also often used old ammunition, especially 8mm Lebel, and...

I have reloaded and am still reload some different belted cartridges by using the same procedure than with rimless or rimmed cartridges. I have never taken the belt into account in my approach, that without any problems. However, there are differences in the wear and tear of the belted...

Not absolutely. It is sure, one must be careful and know where the ammunition comes from and how it was stored. Pulling bullets for looking inside a few cartridges can also reveal something about the condition of the ammunition, like it was quoted in our discussion. Unfortunately, that says...

People in the past had a more relaxed view of such things than we do that nowadays, regardless of the caliber. Even if all bullets in the same series had the same diameter, which was also not always the case, there were often significant variations depending on the manufacturer. There were...

A praise to the cartridge 458 Winchester Magnum in the Gun Digest of 1960. There was hardly any competition, as the classic dangerous game cartridges disappeared one after the other. Gun Digest 1960 14th Annual Edition

@Hunter-Habib Interesting report. This problem was already reported on several times decades ago. The clumping of the powder, caused by extremely high compression loads used to try to achieve unrealistic muzzle velocities, combined with the poor quality of Winchester bullets, greatly...

In all the areas where I have hunted elephants and/or buffalo, I have never seen a very big tusker. The biggest one I have seen was in the Caprivi Strip on the Kavango River during a buffalo hunt, and it was estimated by the PH at around 60 lbs. It is in my opinion not easy to find a record...

Regardless of size, you have to track and find the elephants. It is certainly faster and easer to shoot one under 40 lbs than one of 80 lbs or more. This tusks weigh between 30 lbs and 40 lbs, but I also needed several hours a day and several days before I could shoot them.

One should consider not only the weight but also the length and the shape of a tusk. I have seen very different tusks depending on the country where they were shot. Nowadays, the focus is primarily on elephants of the Okavango / Zambezi area and somewhat further south in the triangle formed by...

The days when you could bag whatever came your way for a fixed price are over. Nowadays, it is all first and foremost a question of the price you are willing to pay, then you have to choose an area where there is a chance of bagging a bigger tusker, and finally the time you are willing to invest...

I went for Moose hunting several times in these areas of the far northeast of Asia from the late eighties to the early nineties, first in the Soviet Union and then in Russia. It was all very adventurous, but it always went well. I went back to Russia for hunting about 20 years ago, but the mood...