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Barrel length ?

Here is a video that is linked to in the first article I posted. It was produced by locals in Botswana, and does a good job of examining the human wildlife conflicts and detriments of lack of legalized hunting.

Just ordered this book from Ebay, thanks !

Thats just it, explaining it is tough. Thats why I was thankful to come across a well written unbiased article that I felt really was successful in changing a point of view. There has to be more resources out there, whether they be books, youtube videos, articles, etc that could be useful in...

We were having a conversation around the lunch table at work and a co-worker became visibly upset when she learned I was planning on hunting an elephant this year. It's not her fault, she is not anti-hunting, in fact she hunts here in Alaska, but her view on elephant hunting has been shaped by...

Just throwing it out there, another route to an inexpensive 9.3 would be buy one of many older Mausers in 30-06 and have JES Reboring convert it to a 9.3x62. You would want to pay attention to barrel contour to do this, make sure it doesn't have too slim of a profile.

That was late 2025, just a few months ago. Sure Freight Cargo Solutions out of Namibia handled the shipment.

I was pleasantly surprised at the price of shipping my crate from Namibia to Coppersmith in Seattle. It held a buffalo skull-w-horns of course, a euro wildebeest skull and horns, and three flat skins, buffalo, zebra and wildebeest. Shipping was $1,300.00, almost the exact same price as...

I wanted to share an update. I was able to get my buff looking the way I like it. I experimented with a couple things on the back of the horn in small areas where it is not readily seen. Just for Men hair dye in dark brown was a bit too dark for my liking, almost black. Kiwi brown shoe...

Jim, my number one choice for your 375 Weatherby would be the North Fork 350 Semi Spitzer. The NF SS is sort of a hybrid between a A-Frame with its bonded front lead core, and a TSX with a monolithic shank/rear portion. At least that's my take on it. A-Frames are great bullets, but the rear...

I just finished up a project that was something of an experiment, but it turned out really good. Thought I would share in case someone else wants to build one. I converted military 1917 bottom metal to a hinged floorplate with a floorplate catch inside the trigger guard. I utilized the...

I am not aware of any. I have seen some custom one-off extended buttons for 1917s. I just finished up converting a 1917 to a hinged floorplate, maybe I will post a thread showing that.

As much as I admire the Swift A-Frame it would not be my bullet choice on buffalo at those velocities. Here is a 300 grain A-Frame at approx 2400 fps impact velocity on my buffalo from 375 H&H.

As far as not needing sticks, that may well be and I consider myself a pretty fair offhand shot as well, just realize that the vast majority of PHs will want you to utilize sticks time permitting. If you havent, it would be a good idea to spend some time shooting from sticks so its not brand new.

What bullets are you throwing at 2800+ velocity ? I imagine you are aware as you have been spending time here, but bullet construction becomes very important at those speeds for buffalo. Personally I would consider upping to a 350 grain bullet and slowing it down a bit. There is a very short...