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Day seven: impala This is my fourth hunting trip to southern Africa and the first for me to hunt impala. This kind of surprised everyone since they are one of the most common game animals around. But they actually weren't where I hunted in Namibia and I had other things in mind for the East...

Day six: bow treestand and steenbok. The night prior we got some rain at the lodge and the morning started with a beautiful sunrise. It also had us wondering what happened at our waterhole stand. A phone call confirmed there had been rain there too. But we decided to try anyway. Upon arrival we...

Day five: bow blind day On the way home the day prior we passed another concessipn Bossie had, also in the mopane but a little drier area with just a couple waterholes and notorious for warthog among other species. Bossie got an idea to put up a two man tree stand near one of those waterholes...

Day four: Blesbok bowhunting We decided to pick up the bow again. Bossie has a concession he'd walked quite close to animals on while walking along a river bottom so we headed the other direction over the Soutpansburg mountains into the mopane woodlands. After meeting and greeting the owners...

Day 3: Blesbok and Black Wildebeest With a few more days on my trip for plains game than anticipated I had a few choices. Warthog, blesbok, and black wildebeest were tops on the list. Bossie has access to black wildebeest on another concession also known for its blesbok and good warthog. I opted...

Day 2: Relaxation and steenbok I'm in decent shape for 50, but our first day took it's toll. Both Bossie and I were sore from day one. And I had the added bonus of a sunburn for unwisely forgetting sunscreen. So we woke up late (0600! I'm a morning person) from our tented rooms and took it easy...

Day 1: Buffalo Up early, 0530 coffee and rusks. Checked the rifle quick, spot on, and on the road to Peiters concession by 7. Morning was overcast and cool. Within a half hour we spotted a couple bulls crossing the road and worked up to them. The one we though was hard bossed disappeared and we...

First things first. Everyone asks about equipment so here it is. It's summer in South Africa. I travelled in a pair of cargo pants but I was in shorts and a T-shirt hunting. Some mornings I had a canvas cover shirt on but not for too long. I didn't even bother with a coat when I looked and saw...

This hunt was originally planned for March-April 2020, then postponed u to September-October 2020 for all the reasons we all know. So when travel finally opened this winter I figured out what hoops I had to hop through and took the plunge one more time. First things first- Travel days. With...

I am left-handed and I just used that very model in on a buffalo hunt and it worked flawlessly. My scope is an older Leupold VX2 1-4. Factory ammo isn't as common as the 375 H&H but if you reload it isn't an issue. Brass is readily made by Hornady and it works well with many common powders like...

I'd like to say this surprises me but I recall Sportsmans claiming bankruptsy and planning on shutting their doors in '09. Amazingly they got back on track. Then Bass Pro and Cabela's moved into Anchorage and I figured there wasn't room here for all three. So my guess was Sportsman's was going...

Hyrdro dip is commonplace on compound bows so I wouldn't be surprised at all if this were on a bow someday soon. Not my thing for a rifle, but neither is the various camo paint jobs some like. But if it's your thing, go for it. At worst you have it stripped and dipped in the latest and greatest...

The majority of American firearms have always been engineering to a price point with the available technology. That's just the facts of the businessto survive. That said, technology has in general improved to the point most can be MOA or better out of the box from the factory. So it's sad to...

I don't know how the recoil is yet, I'm waiting for the scope to shoot it. I have a Leupold VX-3i 3.5-10X 40 mm on order for it. And since the local temperatures were hovering in the single digits (Farenheit) this past week I wasn't real anxious to head to the range anyway.

I think I saw 80 a few times this past year. Oh wait, that was when I was working in Miami for a couple weeks back in the January. Sweltering....

It is. It's carved, and then checkered and stippled between the carving depending on the area. It has a better feel and grip to it than regular chekering in in my opinion. I messed up and doubled one shot, I meant to include the wring handed cheekpiece (I shoot correctly, AKA left handed). I'll...

Well, I decided to take a gamble on another Ruger #1. This one was on Gun Broker recently and I decided to give it a go. 300 Win Mag, Serial # has it from 1977, but the wood and carving/checkering is definitely a custom job. I need to see how it shoots. I'm hoping anyone who put the money in it...

Don't forget the silver bullets.

The rifle can certainly do farther, but under field conditions 300 is generally my limit. My partner and I were looking over two rams for easily an hour at 300-teens range I could have taken had either ram been legal. We had a good spot to shoot prone from with not a trace of cover between us...

I'm an amateur at sheep hunting, having taken a Dall sheep and a mouflon. I used a 30-06 with 150 grain Hornady Interbond bullets. No complaints out to 300 yards if needed, though neither shot was over 100. My rifle was a Thompson/Center Encore with a synthetic stock and a Leupold VXII...