Recent content by grand veneur

It's always difficult to judge this situation from the armchair at home, but I can still easily imagine was happened. This has nothing to do with the type of bullet when the herd is moving with a wounded buffalo inside. Shooting and hitting the game is rarely possible under such conditions. The...

Ultimately, it all comes to how each hunter views hunting in Africa, whether they approach hunting in Africa like any other hunt worldwide, or whether they want to realize some kind of dream. The latter, unfortunately, comes with high expectations that are not always achievable without some...

I don't know what the problem is. We are used to do cull hunts as part of wildlife damage control on behalf of authorities in our countries. I recently did the same thing in South Africa when I shot an elephant on the border of the Krüger NP. It is not exactly my concept of a classic elephant...

Hunting areas in Africa, like everywhere else, are increasingly heavy managed, just as it is in our industrialized countries. Anyone who dreams of hunting in the wild is mistaken, unless they are prepared to pay a lot of money to hunt in a more or less original area, but such areas no longer...

You will get confused after reading some of the posts of various Forums. I have shot about three dozen buffalo, certainly a third of them with FMJ bullets of different calibers, including marginal cartridges for this purpose, like the 9,3x74R or 10,75x68. Surprisingly, the buffalo dropped dead...

Go hunting to Africa, preferably a buffalo hunt combined with plain game hunting in a classic area like Zimbabwe, for example. This will give you a true impression of hunting in Africa and equip you to discuss afterward whether you like this kind of hunting or not. All other impressions you...

You should make sure that all these cartridges in the future are labeled a bit better. That would save some of you, in particular the professionals, from a lot of trouble. It is certainly not that difficult, especially since someone like me, living in a forest of west Germany, am I able to...

As I wrote, I only saw a few ABC bullets caliber 375 that were used for shooting antelopes at not too long range. My hunting companions in Uganda were all Austrians and very enthusiastic about this type of bullet for shooting various game species. Unfortunately, I cannot report any more about...

The ABC bullets from Hirtenberger were not entirely monometallic, the expansion was triggered by a tiny droplet of lead.

Yes, I used that one, in 1994 with the cartridge 375 H&H Magnum during a hunt in Uganda. I shot some antelopes with it and other hunters have used the same bullet with the same cartridge during this hunting trip. As far as I can remember, the bullets always worked well and mushroomed perfectly...

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I am so sorry to read that. Many of us in Europe greatly appreciated him and his work. My condolences to his family.

Antarctica is a scientific continent, and everything is regulated accordingly. Hunting there, aside from the problem of how to reach the hunting grounds, is currently unthinkable. Furthermore, there is not much to hunt, and what there is, is limited to coastal areas. Anyone who is very...

A few decades ago, hunting was still possible on the Kergelen Islands, a French territory off the coast of Antarctica. Mouflon and Reindeer were released there some time ago. This was an unsuccessful action, as the mortality rate of the game in winter was around 50% of the population. The...

In my opinion and after I have often read various paragraph from CITES, as long as the country that manufactures such products and is allowed to export them, you are also allowed to import them in your country, but after obtaining an import permit from this. When it is not about acquiring...