Recent content by Ontario Hunter

You have already spent a lot more than expected on this project. I cannot see that this would give you any advantage over simply polishing the bolt. Dad polished the bolt of my Springfield 1903 when he sporterized it in 1962. Looks the same today and that gun has gone through hell over the...

Get used to it when this topic comes up. A lot of snobs when it comes to Cape buffalo. I went to Africa the first time as a trial, unsure if that style of hunting would fit me. I'd spent almost sixty years hunting almost entirely alone and DYI. So I booked a "beginner's package" for plains...

I can't imagine a "super lightweight" 375 being very useful. 1) A person who wants to hunt Alaska brown bears generally needs to be fit. It's not like they aren't capable of carrying a heavy gun. Typically the camp is not far from where he will be hunting because transporting a giant bear...

https://www.africahunting.com/threads/cape-buffalo-is-the-sci-trophy-scoring-system-wrong.14867/ This should answer your question. Scroll down for a diagram.

Construction screws are better. The heads are thicker and threads are closer together = more thread biting per bone thickness. Mine are held on with only two screws. One is at the same location in the below gemsbuck skull. The other is about half way down through the roof of the mouth (no...

My first was a cow I culled on a breeding station. Only about 3700 acres. It turned out to be a far more interesting hunt than I anticipated. The herd was extremely wary. In the thick stuff we suddenly found ourselves surrounded on three sides by the herd on their late afternoon walkabout...

It's an easier conversion than Duane Wiebe's booklet which is for 375 build. 375 is longer than 404 and requires relieving metal from the locking ring to allow for ejection of loaded cartridges. Also his advice for carving the feeding rails in "flame" shape didn't apply to my conversion. Not...

Another Ontarian here, formerly Montana. I return home ever fall for six weeks to hunt birds with my dogs ... and mule deer. It was a great season last fall. Probably the best in the last fifteen years. Thankfully because my two dogs are long in the tooth. Fr Britt will be fifteen in May...

Wait ... are you a club member? Maybe we're neighbors? That would be weird. Guess we could grab a coffee at Tim's some time?

The 416 Rem box will be longer than your standard length action's follower. I know guys have made the shorter standard action follower work but having a follower full length is more asthetic and keeps stuff from falling down inside the box over the opening above end of follower. The military...

Duane Wiebe's booklet for building magnums on standard 98 Mauser was very useful for my machinist to set up for opening the bolt face. Before you start working on the rails, load up three dummy 404 rounds at standard OAL. Start with all three loaded in the box. That will leave top cartridge...

Their website needs some work. A lot of dead end links. Showcasing "custom" rifles in plastic stocks? Really? Unclear what they are using for actions. Who is making the barrels?

You need to understand plains game are antelopes not deer. They don't shed their horns every year. Once in a great while we stumble on a skull in the bush, but typically they are a bit on the rotten stinky side. Not something you'll want to stick in your checked bag. Or you can rent a gun and...

Thanks. I hope I can fit some time in. Well, if you want to shoot a couple of rounds, maybe I'll have to bring a sleeping bag :D Parker is a natural. He shot sixteen his first round of skeet this past summer. And he'd never fired anything bigger than .22 before that. He's only twelve...

I built my own 404J on a standard action military surplus Czech 98 Mauser. Very portable, nice balance, manageable recoil, short bolt throw, cycles flawlessly, plenty of punch, and looks pretty good. Cost me somewhere around $2700 when all said and done, including scope. But I did most of the...