Recent content by Ontario Hunter

Interesting. Are the "color phases" of blesbuck natural or artificially cultivated? Golden wildebeest is a natural phase as is saddleback impala.

I remember that horror story. Definitely don't take your wife/girlfriend! I'm the kinda guy who appreciates adventure but that safari had too much of the wrong kind. :D

Last I knew raising bontebuck was highly regulated. Behind fences only and no blesbuck anywhere near them. This is to keep blesbuck from interbreeding which apparently is not uncommon. To restore the species fully requires pure gene pool.

I wouldn't pay the airfare to fly across the street for an impala hunt. Warthog might take a day or two if not baiting them. If baiting or over a waterhole, the "hunt" is an afternoon project. Just for kix why don't you ask for their trophy fees list for all available species and then get...

Exactly. Blesbuck are not very challenging to hunt. It was the very first animal I took and I had to think to myself is this what African hunting amounts to? Shooting oblivious dumb animals from quad sticks? Helen Keller could do this. Fortunately next up were impala and warthog. Very...

I guess I still reload mostly because it gives me time to reconnect with my dad. I started helping him reloading in the early sixties. I still have his old RCBS press and Herters powder measure. The press I still load with but his POS powder measure is now relegated to decoration at the back...

I'm pretty much a skulls on the wall only guy so there really would not be any point in taking one for trophy purposes anyway. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between one and blesbucks already on the wall. If I was a social butterfly with lots of wall space, yes I think I would have...

The big difference between the standard action and magnum action is the length of the action and the bolt. A standard action is 8 3/4" long from front of locking ring to end of the tang. The magnum action is 1/2" longer. The locking ring is not rebated on a magnum action. It's not necessary...

Can't remember the last time I heard a black angus gobble. :D

True. But we were raised by parents who survived the hard times of the Depression and WWII. Those hard times molded them and they molded us.

Yep. That's cheap. I have about $2700 in my 404 but that includes two stocks, $150 for bluing, a hundred bucks to the machinist for opening the bolt face, and $150 for used Winchester Express sights that I could have drilled and tapped myself but the gunsmith who mounted my barrel offered to...

A couple of years ago I gave my son-in-law a set of 308 dies for Christmas with invitation to use my equipment. He's yet to show up. They don't even change their own vehicle oil! Pay someone hundred plus for the labor to do that? Another poster put it in the proper light I think. In my day...

I really doubt you will be able to load shells with copper shot cheaper than you can buy steel shot factory ammo. And steel will work if you know how to use it and what shells to buy. I use Walmart Winchester 3" twelve gauge BB @ 1550 fps and almost always batting 500 or better shooting...

I paid $400 for my bottom metal. Barrel was $410 + $600 for a gunsmith to cut, crown, ream, thread and mount it in the gun (I brought it to him as a 30-06 to get around cross-border restrictions on gun parts trafficking).

416 WSM? I searched hard and could find almost nothing about this cartridge. Couldn't find any ammo for sale. Rim is almost same diameter as 404 so bolt face opening is same. 404 builds on a standard action easily enough. I don't see any advantage. I'm shooting 400 gr 404J at 2200 fps and...