Recent content by Pirkan

That's quite the exaggeration. Most hunters use something a little more powerful like a 308, 30-06 or 8x57 and occasionally 9,3x62 depending on where you are. The 6,5 is far from dead but it's certainly not the most popular by any kind of margin here. There's still massive amounts of old Mausers...

i really enjoyed their attitude towards baboon hunting when I hunted with Tally-Ho

I had the opportunity to shoot the sako 90 at the world premiere and talk to some guys from Sako. They assured me that the 90 will be sold with an XL action in calibers bigger than 375 HH but couldn't say when it'd be available so hopefully they're released soon.

This one is admittedly not much of a trophy but it was a fun hunt. When I hunted with Tally-Ho in rsa we saw a large group of waterbucks at a waterhole near the butchery where we dropped of other animals I shot multiple evenings in a row so we decided to go to said waterhole the next evening and...

I enjoy practicing with a 22lr from sticks and with random improvised supports shooting at clays and some steel targets like in the attached pictures so I don't have to take time from shooting to check paper. At around 200 meters I can make repeated hits but definitely not 100% on the steel and...

One thing I did to minimize the cost of taxidermy was to boil the skulls and bring them home with me in my luggage to have "euro" mounts made locally by a guy I know. In total I think I spent roughly 800 usd on taxidermy for a blue wildebeest, Impala, duiker and warthog as well as some money for...

I used my T3 in 308 with 180 gr Norma Oryx handloads in South Africa with no complaints. The biggest animals i shot were zebra, bwb, and waterbuck and they all died in a timely manner from a single shot. When taking pot shots at baboons at >800 meters the drop was considerable but other than...

For that deal you need to be a permanent resident in Luleå but I think members of the club that organizes it are allowed to bring guests. I moved here quite recently and you need to attend an in person meeting to join but they only have that meeting twice per year and the next one is in may...

There's still plenty of public land in the north of Sweden where I live. Just the city where I live has 49000 hectares of land that you can get access to for something like 150 euros per year iirc. Unfortunately stuff like that seems to be very rare on the continent.

Trying to get the required permits to go through Amsterdam with one was an absolute pain so I just borrowed one in Africa.

If there´s a good mount available where you´re at you might want to look into an Aimpoint Acro. It has a closed emitter so it´s not as sensitive to dust etc as some other suggestions and it´s designed to be mounted on pistol slides (which are subject to very high acceleration) so the recoil of a...

A friend of mine that has a dealer license and a bit too much money has offered me a free Cetme C rifle if I tattoo a shrimp on the specific body part you're probably thinking of. If I didn't already have a nice L1A1 and all my other spots filled I would've done it immediately. Since we're in...

I recently tried another quite interesting dish that made me think of this thread. My girlfriend is from north eastern Thailand where they eat a lot of organ dishes. We were hanging out with her mother and some older female relatives and they had cooked a lot of super nice dishes. Some were...

JG Jakt get somewhat close to this though. I visited their booth at Elmia and they had a couple old Rigby's and Mauser's but the coolest thing was a Westley Richards 8 gauge side by side that I think they wanted 300 k sek for iirc. They were also really nice and let me look at them all despite...

My dad enjoyed our trip to South Africa back in April quite a lot so we're going to Zimbabwe and Namibia in June. It'll mainly be a tourist trip to look at the Victoria Falls etc but we'll also hunt a couple days with @KHOMAS HIGHLAND HUNTING SAFARIS . I'm not quite sure what I'll try to shoot...