Recent content by Vintageguy

The method is old school, I’m old school and that’s how I do it. If I can’t get within that range, the critter wins and I need to try again.

I find it odd that a company puts as much advertising into a specific bullet for dangerous game and yet leaves it woefully understocked. I keep seeing comments about the smaller calibers being more popular and maybe they are but I don’t know a single person who uses those bullets. It’s the...

Got a gift certificate from the last SCI convention and still no 458 A-Frames. The last I was able to get were two conventions ago. My safari plans got derailed this year but if not, I would’ve had to go with Barnes. Hopefully, they come before next year season.

I think all bets are off on this because the government of South Africa appears to be doing nothing to improve relations. Sanctions targeting specific government individuals are looking more likely which would likely not warm the relationship any. They are cozying up with Iran and the openly...

The multiple failures to effectively and efficiently reload in the multitude of safari videos on YouTube wouldn’t support your assertion of 99.9 percent doing it. On dangerous game particularly, merely cycling the ammo you intend to hunt with isn’t enough. You need to confirm it will flawlessly...

All very nice but that Kudu was one crazy stud!

I mention this from the angle of someone out there who might be looking for inexpensive and reliable service O/U’s. I shot a lot of clays at clubs weekly and did some competitions from the late eighties until about 2010. I also had a side gig during that time specializing in work on doubles. The...

Twice for me with number three in the planning stage. I hope to get to see a multitude of different locations in Southern Africa. I’ve been bit by the dangerous game bug, buffalo namely, so I’m focused on locations with buffalo. Fortunately, that’s the majority of places I wish to see. Of the...

Watched one of his podcast leading up to this trip where he said he was hoping for a buffalo charge…. He’s someone I can take or leave but I haven’t made it through one of his “safari” videos yet. What I’ve seen so far has just been on location podcasts that I’ve left midway through from...

Everything would’ve been fine if he had only watched a few Mark Sullivan videos.

They certainly seem to have a lot of charges and close calls.

This is my last Buffalo on a homemade bracket I fabricated. Simple L bracket with half of a horseshoe turned upright inserted into brain cavity.

I really like the way you did that. I shoot iron sights on my 458 bolt gun and have placed a white dot on my back sight to insure alignment. It allows me to literally shoot my irons as well as a scope on the same gun despite needing reading glasses. Nice gun too.

My wife and I hunted South Dakota for many years until our farming friends passed away, retired, or sold out to corporations. Never cared for the crowds, drunken hunters at the motels, or hot temperatures of opening week. There are definitely some stupid and wild birds early. I too shun the...

Don’t be fooled into thinking put and take pheasant hunts are all advertised as such for the same reasons. No property in the Midwest is going to sustain hunting party after party limiting out week after week without stocking. They just won’t admit it and they won’t have holding pens about to...