Recent content by Ontario Hunter

Keep your weight down, don't smoke, and you should do okay on safari. It's mostly spot from a vehicle and then stalk on foot a short distance.

Don't overthink the sling issue. You will have plenty of time to get the gun off your shoulder while PH is setting up the sticks. It is a special PH who will let you shoot a snap shot offhand at game unless your life depends on it. Mine will but they know I can shoot. I had never seen...

Lost my lovely 14 year-old son to a seizure in the night (which is when most die) Christmas 2009. Terrible to hear this. My heart goes out to you and your family.

The gator was just trying to feed itself. That damn pitbull ... no excuse! It's owner needs to slip and fall on a baseball bat ... several times. Shithead.

A really cool dude uses bra? Crazy enough when those millennials started shaving chest hair. Now they're covering their bare boobs with women's underwear? What next? To quote Major Hoople: "Harumph!"

Hammer makes quite a variety of 404 bullets (.423 cal). And they offer them in trial packages of thirteen. Great people to deal with. I tried their 307 gr and didn't get great groups with the few I fired. But the barrel on my Mauser build was brand new and the load data I was given was from...

If you don't use "bro" and "dude" as pronouns for everyone and don't use "like" as an adjective/conjunctive for everything, then you may be a curmudgeon ... or should I say "u r a curmudgeon?" :D

I was lucky enough to get an outfitter and PH the first safari that I was happy with. Since then I just don't see any need to risk changing to someone else for these very reasons. I'm there to relax not pursue more new and nonresident species. So I'm okay with no big changes. My guy runs a...

That's quite a story. Like something one would see in the movies. Lucky you saved him. My Lab Pearl who succumbed to kidney disease ten years ago last week was bitten by a rattler in Montana and eventually recovered just in time to get my last rooster for possession limit on the way home. We...

Consider having one built on a standard 98 Mauser. I built my 404 in three months for less than $3K. Just depends on how fancy you want to go but I'm sure someone could build you one just as cheaply (e.g. a decent piece of wood sans checkering + Timney deluxe trigger with 2-position side safety.)

I joined and became a measurer because we had a client who wanted his wife's muley scored for a silver medal plaque. Then he stiffed us. Personally, I think the plaques are cheesy. I would have removed the medal and made another plaque for it. As far as credibility ... This is my first elk...

Wait till you're over 65 and can no longer hear the damn thing unless it's turned to speakerphone. Actually, I see more young people doing that bullshit in public places. Especially East Indian young people who hang out in the nearby donut shop zooming with their relatives in the Punjab. On...

What happened to your eye? Not sure I recall your hunt from hell report. Got a link?

Curious about your 404 build. How long is the barrel? What kind of safety? Doesn't appear to be Model 70 style and original is obviously removed. Who did the bolt handle modification? Very nice looking war horse.

I note Springfield bottom metal appears to be very close to 98 Mauser. Gauging the action screw displacement and position of trigger slot with a caliper and all seem to be same or very close. Unfortunately the original 8mm bottom metal for my 404 build 98 Mauser seems to have disappeared so I...