Recent content by Sika98k

To date I have used Barnes TSX and Woodleigh PPSN 300 grain bullets. 4 shots, 4 kills.

I have a Browning A-bolt in 375. It has a tang safety that is pretty intuitive and easy to operate. My Mauser actioned rifles have Winchester style safety’s.

As I understand it from somebody in the aviation industry firearms travel in the front hold along with crew baggage. Thus they are separate from general checked luggage. This at least is the excuse I was given when my shotgun was not offloaded in Copenhagen some years ago. . The plane left on...

Shipping in a piano is going to be bloody difficult!

A Zastava is a modern Mauser action. What can possibly go wrong with it ? The Ruger is pretty similar. I can’t comment on the others.

Suppressors will add length to any rifle. In tight situations where your life can depend on fractions of a second a rifle fitted with a suppressor will be susceptible to getting hooked up on something. Then you could get hooked up. . I’d go for a recoil reducer.

I’m beginning to understand where you get your handle from!

I believe that tags that can be picked up by Android phones are now available.

Just to make anyone aware that if flying with Ethiopian Airlines and transiting through Addis Ababa they take a dim view of binoculars and scopes in your carry on. Mine were all in my checked baggage, no worries. My friends high end Leica binoculars and his scope were in his carryon. Security...

I have a Meopta R2 in 1,7-10x42 sitting on a rifle and am well impressed with it.

I’ve just been reading up on “Pondoro” to satisfy my own curiosity on some points of his life. He ended up as the night caretaker at the Battersea Cats and Dogs home and died in 1969. He was to all intents and purposes in poverty. A sad set of circumstances for someone who led such a life. Who...

Go for it ! 7mm Mag is good medicine.

Brilliant ! What an innovative way of funding your trip. Good luck.

If you have a bit of time in Windhoek and are going out for dinner can I recommend “ The Cape Town Fish Market “. We ate there last week and the food and general ambience was excellent. It’s in Klein Windhoek just of the top of Nelson Mandela Avenue. The security guard totes an M16 so I reckon...

Barbecue night at Astra Safaris in Namibia