Recent content by Ontario Hunter

Thanks. I checked his website. Good to know. He even makes the magnum extractor with claw pre-fit for 404 rim. I should have a spare extractor on hand for my 404 in case mine breaks. $125 isn't cheap but if it saves me the trouble of modifying a standard extractor, it's probably worth it...

I think 1-4x is enough for 375 for buffalo as PHs will rarely let a client shoot more than 70 yards at them. 3-9x if you want to use the gun to scope plains game out further. I shot both my buffalo with 375 rental wearing 3-9x Leopold. It worked.

The difference between present and past wars is humans now possess the weaponry to totally destroy all life on this planet essentially forever. I don't give a shit about the human population but we owe it to nature to be careful about taking the shackles off. Survival of the fittest only...

Let's see ... according to Jewish scholars Abraham died 2123 AM (i.e. 2123 years after the creation of the world ... 66 million years after dinosaurs disappeared from a planet that didn't yet exist). That translates to 1537 B.C. The Iron Age starts roughly 1200 B.C. so it seems your "ancestral...

Those short wars weren't fought with countries slinging ballistic missiles. The list of short wars is indeed endless. That tells the tale. How many of them resulted in lasting peace or stability? If I read today's news correctly, things are about to escalate tenfold. If Iran closes the...

No one has won a war in that shithole part of the world since Suleiman. Not the British or the French or the Italians or the Russians or the Americans or the UN. Win a few battles here and there but in the end they had to give up and leave. Those people just live to fight and kill. There's...

Let's say your outfitter charges $400/day PH fees for a buffalo hunt per his contract at DSC convention. You arrive in May but the cost of diesel has quadrupled (I'm being conservative). What's he gonna do? Just absorb the difference? Or cut corners on the hunt? What concerns me most is...

Of course fuel prices affects your hunting plans. Fuel prices, or rather fuel availability, determines how or if you get to your hunting destination.

Exactly. If the airlines can't afford to put their planes in the air for the price of tickets paid, thanks to fuel going through the roof, something has to give. Already seeing Delta flights to RSA being cancelled. I would worry more about flights being cancelled and airlines going tits up...

These are traumatic times. I have a safari booked for August and I will be surprised if I am able to make it. Actually, I'll be surprised if the whole world doesn't go up in flames by then. A special thank you to those who voted Republican in 2024. Actually, there a few sensible GOP in D.C...

Take care of yourself over there. What a mess. Just so you know, I am an American citizen and voter who did his best to avoid this. Hopefully you can come home soon.

Great action. 1903 Springfield is slicker than 98 Mauser. Consider changing to Timney "deluxe" trigger with two-position trigger block safety on side of receiver. Then the scope could be lowered considerably.

If you bought the stainless rifle used, I suspect the explanation may be the original magnum extractor broke and was replaced with a standard length extractor. Shouldn't be a problem. When the bolt is opened, the shorter extractor should stay in its locking ring channel long enough for the back...

It is pretty much impossible to bring in a king like that with normal fly fishing gear without chasing it with a jet boat. Last time I was in Alaska I hooked four kings during a week float. All were thirty pounders. I had one rose colored hen into a backwater twice but she made it out the...

I bought a trial package of thirteen 307 gr 404J. They didn't group well but the barrel on my Mauser build was not broke in and turns out the load data was way too hot. Hoping to give them a go again this spring at the range ... if it ever stops snowing. Not a dangerous game bullet but I'd...