Recent content by grand veneur

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.

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...