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    Favorite cocktails

    Rum and dr pepper sometimes Usually it’s Tito & soda Old fashioned when we go to Bobs steakhouse
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    What is the purpose of carrying a knife out in a safari..

    lol, sounds like my wife when i cut up her hamburger when we are driving and they don’t give her a plastic knife in the bag She uses my knife almost as much as I do and ask to barrow it every day
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    Binos for Africa

    I’m not a rich person, so every dollar counts when I buy something I am sold on Steiner 8x military on binoculars ( and have been for 30+years) And Swarovski spotting scopes if I am glassing at distance all day fwiw I think that’s a brushy area so 8x should work better than 10x
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    What is this ?

    Lucky him , I usually don’t catch a break
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    What is this ?

    I think he had finished turkey hunting and was going back to camp , when he saw it And had a deer rifle in the truck, a lucky stumble across as exotic animals aren’t usually found around the area
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    What is this ?

    Buddy went turkey hunting and this walked up , any I.D on this African antelope? Young water buck ?
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    45-70 dangerous game?

    Like wearing gasoline soaked underwear While barbecuing
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    45-70 dangerous game?

    Yes , definitely! but common sense had short term memory, only 45-70 that might ( a big might at that) That can handle a very hot special loaded bullet is the #1 ruger Imo you are boarding mentally insane trying to hunt dangerous animals with a weapon like a lever action 45-70 or larger...
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    Opinions please: Pros/Cons of .375 Ruger vs .375 H&H

    I hear you brother ! Amen! And I have a SS , black fiberglass, 375Ruger, and cuss the gun manufacturing industry and hornday every time I see it . Back in 2021 as was grabbing some 270win ammo ( whole shelf full) there was a couple of people trying to find some 6.5 prc ammo ( none ) when I...
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    Bullets that well advertised but were not that great

    Really? Sierra tmk VMax NBT Eldm Berger Are all hyper explosive, they even advertise 2 inch penetration then total core disintegration On rockslide.com there is a 600 page discussion on which bullet is most explosive
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    Bullets that well advertised but were not that great

    NBT Anything Berger Eldx I’m not a explosive bullet fan , bonded or mono ,H brace design like A frame, north fork Only for me now
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    7x57 factory ammo

    If I had a 7x57 I know I would be shooting 7x57 Mauser 150 Grain TXRG Sellier Bellot Xergy Blue Ammo
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    Any love for the federal terminal ascent?

    I like them and wish they came in 375 My uncle brought them in 300wm when we went moose hunting up in Alaska, we didn’t get a moose , but he did kill two caribou with one shot on accident when the bullet held together enough to punch two , I definitely think they would be great for any PG in...
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    .270win and lead free ammunition

    I don’t know about marginal, it’s pretty good with 130gr barns TSX and Norma oryx 150gr on nilgai and aoudad My buddies wife just killed a huge old aoudad with 140gr TSX, went in last rib , through the heart and lungs, neck ,and stopped under the eye She killed her zebra with same gun @ 200...
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    Help me join the 21st century regarding scopes

    My leupold on my 375 is a 2-7x36 The rest are Steiner made Burris 3-9x , I wouldn’t spend $1500 + for a scope unless I was doing more sheep hunting or hunting in mid Asia for MP sheep and ibex where they want you to shoot 400-800 meters
 
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