Recent content by Safari Dave

I really wanted my buffalo to be very close, so I could take him with my open-sighted DR. However, that opportunity NEVER presented itself when I was hunting in Mozambique in 2021. I had to use a scoped .416 Rigby to make the shot at 70-80 yds. In a perfect world, I wish I could have taken...

When I was a junior in college, a friend and and I cut enough fire wood to pay for a week-long skiing trip! There was customer who didn't want it split, because he enjoyed doing it for exercise, but he paid us, just the same. A Fiskars Splitting Axe is a marvelous tool! However, different...

I'm fortunate, in that I never have to buy, or even cut down trees for firewood. Like the OP, we use our fireplace mostly for aesthetics, but it nice to have when the power goes off and we need to keep warm. I have about 16 acres of mostly hardwoods (red & white oak, primarily), as well as...

If I could only have three: 12 gauge shotgun .22 Long Rifle .416 Rigby

Yep, I have encounter five. 3 females and 2 males. I was "suspect" of the men. I was completely "duped" by the women. The women, were, by far, the most horrid.

I saw a giant Sable and Kudu in Mozambique in 2021. https://www.legadema.co.za/safaris/ Everything there is "free range," but (IMO), that hardly means anything anymore. As I see it, you can buy a tag to take an animal that you might not even see (The USA model), or pay a "trophy fee" to...

Honestly, I think many fairly newer cartridges maybe so confined... All of the Remington Etronx cartridges were dead on arrival several years ago. - Practically, all of the WSSM's - Practically, all of the RUM's Just speculation... .22 Creedmoor .22 ARC .25 Creedmoor 6mm Creedmoor 6.8...

IMO, the .300 Weatherby is the best .30 caliber cartridge ever devised! (When you collect a bunch of eccentrics, what should you expect?) I just bought a .340 Weatherby. (I already had a .338 Winchester) IMO, the .340 Weatherby is the best coastal brown bear and polar bear cartridge ever...

If H-H is mediocre, then I'm not even a jester in this circus. I'm the guy who changes the oil in the clown go-carts, at best!

Wingmasters are really a large step above regular 870's. Not in terms of reliability, but just fit, finish, quality and smoothness.

I probably have too many shotguns as it is (I have an 12 gauge 870 Magnum Express with screw in choke tubes), so I don't really have room for this one, but that's a super deal.

That's a really good deal on what is IMO, the best pump shotgun. (I've never owned a Winchester Model 12, so I may not know) My father no longer hunts (he's about to be 89), and had a Model 870 Wingmaster 20 gauge with a modified choke. I have a nephew who has just taken a job as a Project...

Oh, if I could only have some of my old vehicles back, that I sold... 1972 Corvette Convertible with hardtop - $5K 1972 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40 - $2K 1974 Toyota Landcruiser FJ55 - $2K 1968 Land Rover Series IIA - $1K 1972 Land Rover Series III - $5K 1983 Jeep Scrambler - $3K

Funny, when I has in high school I bought a Marlin 1894 in .44 Magnum for less than $200. I didn't keep it very long and traded it for something. Just a couple of weeks ago, I gave $1,000 for another one! I've never suffered from gun "buyer's remorse." I've been hit with "seller's remorse"...