Recent content by Safari Dave

Most are hunters and have rifles and shotguns. The women liberals have pistols for self defense.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to deal with customs with a suppressor. The reason I would go with a .30 caliber suppressor as opposed to a .338 is simply the versatility of the .30 caliber and using it on other rifles like something chambered in .300 Blackout, which is really quite. My son puts one...

Around me, it's simply a "gun culture" that doesn't even follow politics. I have several liberal friends and they all own guns.

I think we may be on the "same page." 100% of the rural Americans I now know and associate with, own and know how to use more than one gun. Male, female, and everyone older than 12. Life is still good in most of the hinterland.

I know we are mainly speaking of the US here, but it is amazing to me about the dichotomy of the urban/suburban person vs. the rural person. I have (briefly) lived in two, somewhat, urban areas in my life. Most of my life has been spent in rural areas. I, literally, don't know a person...

I enjoy obtaining rifles chambered for many, various cartridges. I am a contrarian, to those who want to "downscale" to just a few chamberings. The ammo shortages of a few years ago taught me the folly of having only a few chamberings. There have been at least two times in the last 15 years...

Kudo's to you! I'm a "rancher" with 3 only cows...

I seem to like CCI primers now.

I run a Husky 45 & 55 quite often. (These have been great for nearly 30 years!) I also have a small Jonsered, that I run on occasion. My next chainsaw will probably be a larger one. I think I will buy a Stihl next time. My buddy's big Husqvarna has had many problems, and has he hasn't...

I think the limit is either where you run out of secure storage space or if gun collecting starts to cause financial issues. If they are secure, I think that guns, probably even more so that precious metals, are one of the best investments a person can make. Golden Rule: "He who has the...

So, 81 years ago, the U.S. had a superior sniper cartridge, but we just didn't want to use it for some unexplainable reason???

IMO - The .300 Weatherby Magnum is the best .30 caliber ever devised. Roy Weatherby developed it in 1944. Winchester developed the .300 Winchester Magnum in 1963. Remington came along several years later with the .300 RUM. Then, Weatherby came along again, with the .300-.378 Weatherby...

Lechwe. Notice to all other members... Please make me delete all further posts ASAP! A semi-aquatic antelope in the deserts of Texas, just might make me "lose it..."

With a .338 Win. Mag or a .340 Weatherby Mag., at least, you don't have to worry about the bullets in rifle. The most inexpensive factory load of "cup & core" bullets will, cleanly, take any PG. Kudos, to you for not wanting to try to take an eland with a .243, arrow, pistol, or blowgun!

I killed a cape buffalo and baboon in Mozambique in late August of 2021 I picked up them up in Atlanta on 1/6/2023. I took them to the taxidermist the next week. I still don't have the mounts. 3 years, 8 months and still counting...