Recent content by JimP

A number of years ago in the turkey woods I learned the effectiveness of Permithin. Something about sitting on the ground under trees and bushes that just attracts ticks to people and animals. When I mentioned Permithin to a friend he just asked "what". I explained it to him and that...

I was more or less referring to the legalities of exporting a firearm to a foreign country from the US. Not to mention the hoops that you may need to jump through to get it to him in SA.

Have your future SIL talk to a gun shop. I'd almost wager that it would be quicker and easier to just give him the money to buy one.

Looks like the mate to my 340 SS Someone's going to get a great rifle at a great price

I had a 42 Ford military Jeep. I wish that I still had it.

It's more like... On my last hunt there was a huge black wildebeests at 50 yards or so. My PH asked me I wanted him? It wasn't on my list and I already had one very close to the same size so I passed. But I was tempted.

What year of Jeep?

The problem with the smaller calibers such as the 6.5 and the others that you listed can also leade to wounded lost elk very easily. I had a coworker who knew absolutely nothing about hunting and he had a 14 year old boy who wanted to go elk hunting. So off they went to the local sporting goods...

I'll throw a little bit of a curve on this one. I've traced Butch Cassidy's trail through quite a bit of Utah's badlands. He held up the Castle Gate payroll in the mouth of Price Canyon and was seen back in a Price bar with a very fresh horse in the afternoon. A good friends grandfather...

I've quit wearing my heaver high top type of boots since most of my hunting is now done in the fall of the year and the Crispi non insulated Colorado II's work quite well. However a high top boot will never go out of style for a lot of reasons and you should have no problem wearing them on your...

I have followed this reintroduction since it was first talked about in the RMEF Bugle magazine. It is a testament to what can be accomplished with some hard work and suitable habitat for a elk. I believe that they will also find out that with the elk will come more cougars in the process. I...

Anyone who thinks that hunting elk is easy needs to come out west and try it. If you don't want to go the expense come on out on a vacation and see just where they live. Not the ones in the parks that have grown accustomed to tourist but the ones out in the hills from 5,000' to 12,000'...

Yes I have, my dream hunt for a grizzly in British Columbia. we only saw a single one in ten days of hunting. But the experience was outstanding. We saw elk, moose, black bears, coyotes, and a number of other animals. If the cost wouldn't of been what it was I'd consider going again. There was...

If you just want to shoot a animal then Africa is the place to go to be successful, but what is successful? I've been on a lot of hunts where my rifle was never shouldered at a game animal and some of those hunts were my most enjoyable ones. I have often said that I don't need to kill a animal...

The problem with thinking that your elk hunt is over on the morning of day one is possible, I've shot two elk on open morning, one took the rest of the day and into the night to get the meat to the truck. The other one I was able to drive my truck to it. Other than that most elk hunts will run...