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    Delta Update

    I'm done with Delta, even cancelled my Delta American Express Card, sick of their service and their politics
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    .470 NE Reloads and Fillers?

    I use IMR3031 79gr with 4gr dacron at 2145fps in a Heym with A-frames and it matches Federal factories with Woody's
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    Flying Ethiopian Airlines with a Rifle

    Im going thru Addis to RSA, found a form on line, is there a limit on the number of guns that you may transit thru Ethiopia to RSA ( I plan on a double and a takedown with 2 barrels)? Also, Will I need a Yellow fever certificate to enter RSA after transit thru Addis airport?
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    470 Nitro Express Federal Premium Ammo For Sale

    i'm third for them all
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    Traveling to South Africa from the U.S.

    Used "Travel With Guns' in San Antonio. Patrick is as good as they get when traveling to hunt! Headed out end of May and after a year dealing with schedule changes and Covid we are on Ethiopian Air which has been as reliable as anyone.
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    New Stanford Univ Covid Related Mask Study

    Covid-19/SARS-2 is a real disease, it has and will kill thousands! So was true with Polio, yellow fever, AIDS, and Ebola. Influenza has killed millions from the beginning of time! Wearing a homemade cloth mask likely only benefit is to remind one to wash hands and distant ones self from...
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    What Line Of Work Are You In

    I've cut Cancer out of people for 34 years!
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    Mixology report, whats your favorite mixed drink?

    After shooting P Dogs all day nothing better than a pint of pale ale with about 6 stuffed green olives, famously called a "South Dakota Martini" Otherwise a really good highend Bourbons on a few cubes
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    Stupid Question

    I'm using A-frames in my Heym with RL15 and like the 470NE they have been better regulated than factory ammo (DGX and Federals respectively) JJ and Bill at Swift have been extremely helpful.
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    For Sale Blaser R8 .404 Jeffery Barrel, Insert & Bolt Head

    Safe to use with aluminum action (Luxes) and is a steal receiver needed?
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    Stock At Powder Valley

    Lee Didn't know TX legalized "Whacky Tobackey" Only time I think I hear someone has H1000 for sale it must be a hallucination smoking dope 50 years ago! Lol Good luck with the Edge I love mine!
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    Delta just cancelled June 1 ATL to JNB flight

    The world has lost its mind and the US and Uncle Joe lead the pack! Last years safari to Africa rescheduled 3 times to this year and after tickets with 5 airlines and 10 different tickets we are headed out on Ethiopian Air (3rd best rated airline in the world from a country that struggles to...
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    Double delay

    400-450 and you wont regret it for a second!
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    A Few Alliant Powders In Stock At Powder Valley

    got some RL22 & RL19 needed both just need RL15 now
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    Best motivational speech ever

    Oorah!
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    Obscene Trophy Shipping Costs

    A half mount of an Aoudad shipped from Atlanta GA to Wyoming cost me over $900! That was half the taxidermy costs. A 72" moose from AK shoulder mount cost $1100 the same year! Weight of the moose mount was 5X the Aoudad Mt and at least 3X the volume and was in a wooden crate! The Aoudad was...
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    Dangerous Game Follow Up - Client and Professional Hunter roles?

    As an avid 3-gun competitor times taken to go to target from arms ready in seconds is approximately 1 second among high level competitors and second shots on target with an AR15 is 0.15-0.24 seconds. Do the same drill with a 470 double and times are much higher as I've practiced it several...
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    Informal Survey - What Major Issue(s) Is Keeping You From Safaris This Year

    Leaving June 3rd, hope to go second time in September!
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    Wyoming Senate File 103: Mar 2021 proposal to raise cost of non-resident tags

    As a Wyoming resident and a land owner in Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas I'm sick of the Outfitters Associations. The Colorado Land Owners draw for tags has become bastardized by outfitters into a disaster for land owners who used to be able to draw tags to hunt their own land, now nonhunting...
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    For Sale 470 NE Rhino Express Only 3 Months Old

    unable to view pictures
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    UK shooting really needs some support from the worldwide community... Please!!

    With the crazy Dems in charge here we are under severe threat of loosing our second amendment rights
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    United Airlines from US to Johannesburg flying prior to June 3?

    Has United decided to open flights to Joberg prior to June 3, despite prior cancellations???
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    The last pair of binoculars

    Bought a pair of 8x35 Swaro at the plant in Chez republic over 25 y ago and they have been all over the world with me (my dad was with me and he bought a pair too which I have now as he is gone) I've got Swaro 15x56 which are assume and 2 Swaro spotting scopes! My RF spotters are Zeiss 10x42...
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    JJ Paradeau Chapuis UGEX 2 Barrel Set For Sale

    Wish I had seen this earlier! I would have been the new owner!
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    Wyoming Senate File 103: Mar 2021 proposal to raise cost of non-resident tags

    I'm a Wyoming resident and land owner with over 20 moose points and the unit I live in had nonresidents draw with fewer points than I have! As a former silent partner in an outfitting operation, I fully support this bill, we have as wyoming residents protected and diverted for the Outfitters...
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    Is there an African animal you wouldn't shoot?

    Croc......as what you may find in their stomachs may be remains of relatives from local villages! Hippo in water.......on land that's a whole other story that would satisfy my adrenalin addiction!
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    Talk to me about the 450/400 NE double

    I HAVE THAT EXACT GUN AND LOVE IT!
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    Looking For RL-15 Powder In VA/Western NC

    I've been looking for it for a year
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    Preferred Shotgun Actions?

    MOD 21 WINCHESTER MOD 37 ITHICA MOD 12 WINCHESTER BROWNING SUPERPOSED PERAZZI MX8
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    Who’s going to Hunt Africa this year?

    Third round of flights cancelled! Now choice is British Airways or Ethiopian Air at more than twice the cost with questionable schedule! Going to try to reschedule Safari dates in hopes things improve. I just dont trust British Airways!
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    Help Deciding on Double Rifle Chambering

    I have both a Heym 470 and a matching one in 450-400. the recoil from the 479 is significantly more, but less than a Dakota Traveler in 416 Rigby! My choice.....Model 88 Heym in 470NE
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    Who’s going to Hunt Africa this year?

    Yes realize its a memorial holiday but both of us are surgeons/trauma specialists so PCR testing is available in both of our hospitals! Big concern is testing coming back as this am the CDC is mandating all travelers returning or coming to the US be tested 24hr prior to return! This will be a...
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    Who’s going to Hunt Africa this year?

    limpopo June 1 and working on Zim late August Got the vaccine, just need to get PCR 72hr or less!
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    IBM to help confiscate guns

    THE COUNTRY I WAS BORN IN AND LIVED IN FOR 66 YEARS......IS NOW A BANNA REPUBLIC THE SECOND AMENDMENT AND ARMED CITIZENS IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP THE LOSS ONE ALL PERSONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND OUR FOUNDING FATHERS GAVE US THE TOOLS TO RESIST........ GOD BLESS THE USA
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    Acquisition of a Double Rifle

    My plan exactly, 416 Rigby Dakota Traveler with S&B 1-6 and my Heym 88 in 470NE
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    Heym vs. Verney-Carron?

    I have 2 Heym doubles and love them, both Safari 88's with upgrade wood! and accuracy with loads recommended by JJ were spot on and frankly quit impressive! Looked seriously at VC but will stick with Heym!
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    Cancer diagnosis for christmas

    Ive been a surgeon over 30 years specializing in cancer! And the survival rates of colorectal cancer has improved each year! With neoadjuvent chemotherapy and radiation we are able to down stage almost all rectal cancers so surgery is much more successful. Now with the addition of new...
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    Powder anyone?

    i SWITCHED TO IMR 3031 AND NOW i'M DOWN TO 2#
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    Copenhagen in Africa

    As a former chewer stopping 40 years ago, it was the hardest thing I ever did! As a Surgical Oncologist I've made a living by cutting out cancers caused by tobacco for 30 years! This includes lungs, esophagus, tongues, voice boxes, jaw bones and many other body parts! Based on the number of...
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    Dakota Traveler For Sale 416 Rigby/338 Lapua

    I have same setup Mine was built in 2002, Cost then with a custom case and 2 S&B scopes with PacNor match barrels was $16,750. Both of mine with Swift Afames shoot 1/2" or better. Its a great setup, near perfect for Africa
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    Blaser S2

    I have a really nice one in 470NE that I'm going to sell if any one is interested!
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    My AHR DGR in 375 H&H

    Great buy at any price!
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    Best Bond is dead. Sir Sean Connery!

    It is truly a sad time to lose a great guy and actor like him!
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    I’ve Got An Idea!

    BUILT A 375H&H IMP SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND HAVE TAKEN A COUPLE BIG MOOSE AND 2 NICE COSTAL BROWNS! BUILD IS A MACHINED DOWN BLUEPRINTED R700 WITH A BROWN PRECISION KEVLAR STOCK, A #3 FLUTED BARREL AT 22" AND A KDF BREAK WITH A 2-8 LEUPOLD! WEIGHT WITH NYLON SLING AND 3 ROUNDS IN THE GUN7#1OZ...
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    .270 vs 7*57 Which is the best???

    I LOVE BOTH, THE 270 HAS BEEN MY GO TO FOR SMALLER NA GAME FOR YEARS BUT IVE KILLED SEVERAL THINGS WITH 275 RIGBY (7X57) AND IT WAS MY DADS FAVORITE "LIGHT" RIFLE FOR YEARS! THAT AND A 470NE DOUBLE AND PRE-64 375 KILLED EVERYTHING THAT WALKED IN FRONT OF HIM!
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    NAMIBIA: Omujeve Hunting Safaris - Caprivi Strip

    DID YOU CONVERT YOUR BUDDY FROM FISHERMAN TO HUNTER?
 
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