Recent content by Nhoro

Although they are not equivalent to bonded bullets, even the old interlocks are pretty sturdy bullets. I use interlocks (and cup and core)in my 30-06 on plainsgame although I would have to be really careful with shot angles on wildebeest upwards. With a 338, you are overgunned for most...

30-06 factory ammo but I am about to start reloading. Here in Zim, factory ammo is expensive. $80 for Hornady Interlock last time I bought a box. So at $4 a shot, it adds up quick. My 458 lott is even crazier so I have been handloading with a friends equipment for years. That stuff runs about...

Maybe I am cynical but I don't really see what all these new cartridges really offer. They pretty much duplicate existing cartridges but are marketed as long range. They used to be called wildcats but now it seems mainstream manufacturers are the wildcatters. I suspect their marketing suckered a...

Zimbabwe limits the calibres that can be used on DG by diameter and energy. So lighter bullets usually have a higher velocity and benefit from increased kinetic energy because velocity is squared in the energy formula . So no DG calibres will lose by a change to copper and there are no legal...

I have said somewhere on the forum before that Hawke make a lot of springer airgun scopes. As crazy as it sounds, springer airguns are scope destroyers- some theorise that it is the double recoil, back and forward of the spring which wrecks a scope. In a nutshell, they makes strong scopes and I...

I shot an impala last year offhand. We saw him in a big pan at about 300 m and he was walking towards me. I set up and waited and he suddenly turned a trotted out of sight. We walked around the pan to look across an open area on the others side and walked right past the same impala. He was back...

I have open sights-just the standard CZ iron sights. I am good to about 75-100 m with open sights and tripod sticks on buffalo sized targets. I can’t really afford to go dangerous game hunting at this stage of my life- kids at university from next year and for the next 6. I am using my 458 for...

2 different scenarios- 1. Client takes first shot. Make it acurate. Probably 375 h&h is best 2. SHTF- now a charge for whatever reason. In reality, you take your best shot and hope for the best. A bigger bang may turn the animal if you don't put it down. Hope and pray and pull the trigger...

It may be the follower shape. The follower sets the angle of the bottom cartridge and can affect the second as well. Take some painters tape and put it on the angled bevel of the follower- you may need 2 or 2 layers. If that doesn't work try tape layers on the flat surfaces and remove from the...

I have used Caldwell electronic muffs for years. Over ear muffs are better for a lot of shooting, the in ear plugs are better for occasional shooting/ lots of stalking. My Caldwell must be more than 10 years old. They have fallen off the truck but keep on working. Pretty cheap too.

My guns sit muzzle up in a metal gunsafe- lightly oiled because of rust. I have a jar with silica gel to try and reduce humidity or at least control it. Before the silca gelz, I had a small area of rust develop between the floorplate and stock.

My first shots with my 458 were in a gravel pit that is used as the shooting range at the game conservancy where I used to live and work. My boys were there and wanted to dig for bullets in the gravel bank behind the target. So road gravel, mixed small stones and sand. The copper peregrine...

I chose 300 win mag but would actually use my 30-06. I would say 308,30-06 and 300 win mag are in the sweet spot. Ammo-I would use a Scirocco or Swift A frame. Something soft that expands quickly and wide but bonded so you can be sure of bone breaking and exit wounds.

Maybe you can dovetail a barrel recoil lug into the barrel if you have enough meat in the barrel contour? Also make sure you relieve the area behind the tang to avoid splitting the stock there.

Canvas tents are tough and heavy. Personally, I have several nylon ripstop tent because they are cheap and work really well. But I have lived and worked out of canvas tents. They are much tougher and stronger than nylon and here in Africa they often have steel poles vs the fibreglass ones in...