Recent content by Sika98k

I truly enjoy these books written about hunters exploits in the first half of the 20th century.

European cartridge cases hold significantly more volume than American. Norma, Lapua, RWS,Seller&Belliot and Geco are available.

In a similar vein to the previous tale I was told the following while in South Africa recently. A South African family were holidaying in Mozambique. They awoke one morning to discover that grandfather had left the building so to speak. There was sadness, sorrow followed by consternation...

It will be interesting to see what this rifle makes at auction later this month.

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Saturday dawned in the Karoo and we stirred into life. Today was to be a walk and stalk day. I elected to hunt a blesbok not having hunted these animals before. After breakfast and suitably composed myself and 2 of the farm staff set off in a bakkie. We set off into the hills where one of them...

I should have explained earlier that this was a “ driven springbok hunt”. Now to any of us who have seen springbok at full speed you’d wonder how in the hell you could shoot those animals bounding across the veld. I’d heard of this and have done plenty of driven boar hunts where at least the...

My God ! With that ramp and double door I have to ask. Are you reloading a cannon ?

Last December in Czech a number of South African hunters joined the group for the 2 day hunt. They were good company and took the initiation into the company of boar hunters with a smile. One of them invited me to come to their annual hunt in the Karoo this year. So some months ago we touched...

A great read. Although I have read numerous books about hunting in Africa I only picked up 4 of John Burgers books recently. He wrote very well.

Unfortunately we are breathing recirculated air for the duration of the flight. There is something called I think, HVAC, that is meant to clean the air. However I too have frequently picked up some kind of bug on flights, mainly of the ENT type.

John Burger wrote several good books. J. A. Hunter also wrote some great books. Ian Nyschens book “ Months of the Sun” is a great read. There’s a lot of great books out there !

I think AI has had a bit to do with the picture if you look at it closer.

Nosler do this.

And a pretty old gun with original barrels. The left barrel is marked choke so it may have been in the colonies at some stage where a shotgun carried ball in one barrel and shot in the other. 11/4 ounces is a hefty load also.