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If you aren't worried about the head stamp keep your eyes open for 375 Ruger brass and just resize that to 416. A quick search shows the Coastal Firearms site has 375 Ruger brass in stock.

At the time Accurate Innovations had a laminate stock in left handed Ruger M77 long action. The barrel is larger diameter than a standard barrel so I had to sand out the barrel channel a bit to get it to free float, but otherwise it worked perfect. I really like walnut and I've thought about...

I got mine in GunBroker too, from a guy who put maybe 100 shots through it before he sold it. Probably less, but that's another story. It just requires some patience. Things definitely cycle on the auction sites. And I too got a better stock with a better pad, worth the extra cost. The tougher...

Got a pair of Conklins I've managed to keep track of. Lost a few others over the past 20 years. My father was enamores with my Conklin All American when he saw it last year so he gained one for his last birthday.

Congrats. As a member of Blacksheep Bowmen on JBER over the years I've known quite a few folks to draw and seal the deal on this tag. Cheers.

Got curious and looked up Tok Alaska today. A mere -52 F. Anchorage isn't perfect, but I can still function at -5 today.

Saw these today. The Patron Saint of Passing, Weed,and Beer Bootlegging amongst many others.

Had my youngest brother thought of that when he was younger he'd have burnt the house down. He hated spiders with a passion.

I'm OK with my winters. I grew up in Tucson. Zero interest in those summers anymore. And we have a lot less people.

21 F or -6 C in Anchorage Alaska. And according to my unofficial deck table snow gauge we',ve had 26 1/2 inches of snow since last Tuesday.

Sir, I see nothing wrong with his post. He's pointing out he'd put this on the top of his list if he had the time and means to travel there. I can think of a few species I'd love to hunt but limited resources prevents me from pursuing them. And I agree with him, this would be high on my list too...

Next questions, what's his budget and how much time is he thinking.

I'm on Facebook to keep in contact with some friends. I recall seeing that group and decided this one won for my interests so I never connected with it. What's the old saying? You can please all of the people some of the time. Some of the people all the time. But you can't please all of the...

It's your safari, what do you want and expect to do? Talk to your outfitter and find out what they consider the likely shot distances and opportunities. Combine that with the distances you want to shoot at and what shot oppotunities you're willing take or pass up. At 300 yards or so or less...

In general, 300 yards. Most hunting I do is with a 30-06. For really big non dangerous game like moose the velocity past 300 is down enough I don't think it's got the energy to effectively kill one. My 300 Win Mag would give me more range. As for caribou, deer, kudu, etc. It gets to be a small...

@akrifleman I agree. Use what works for you. As for my comment on what is always found on the shelves, it was to state what the locals use. The store isn't going to keep what no one uses. I see the basics of 308, 30-06, 300WM everywhere. And every manufacturer makes a rifle in them. So Remington...

Killed or wounded? I've heard of a few horror stories of AR's and AKs not doing the job very well. But 30-06 is still probably one of the most common cartridge stocked in stores, be it the cities and towns on the road system to villages off of it.

Which one do you prefer. All of the species mentioned have safely dropped to both cartridges. The only possible advantage of one over the other would be the heavier bullet 300 WM for grizzly. Run the question past your guide(s).

Took my Dall sheep with a 150 grain Hornady Hornady Interbond, offhand at 100 yard +-. And multiple caribou with 30-06 and 7MM-08 in Barnes TTSX of various weights. Nothing went far.

Todays peak in Anchorage was 14F or -10 C. I head to Fairbanks tomorrow, forecast of a high of -7F/-22C to a low of -23F/-32C. And that's not really cold in central Alaska. That's just cold.

I bet I've heard of more caribou and moose dropped by a 30-06 with either Remington Core-Lokts or Nosler Partitions than any other combo around.

Certainly adequate, just not a common round in the US. I'm sure someone has one here, but I've never seen one around and I can't say I've noticed the ammo on the shelves much, even in Anchorage.

I lost track of this post. Here's a close encounter my PH's son took a quick shot of. That's my Left-handed Ruger M-77 African in 375 Ruger restocked in an Accurate Innovations stock.

The 300 grain TSX is a popular bullet for the 375 rounds for dangerous game, plenty have used them here if you do a little looking. The ammo is all up to whether it shoots well out of your rifle.

Here's a cancellation hunt advertised earlier this year to get an idea of things. 20k Euro in Daily fees, 8,900 Euro for plane charter in country, and another grand for dip&pack and export paperwork. And that's before trophy fees and travel costs to the country...

Add the Thompson/Center Encore and Contender to your list. You can get left and right handed after-market stocks, but the action and basic rifle stock is ambidextrous.

Congrats. Sounds like a great time. I have a friend down on Prince of Wales island I was going to hunt this year and got postponed. Good to hear someone did well down that way.

For me it's my only javelina. I grew up in Tucson, Arizona and javelina are a pretty common animal to bowhunt in the area. I've known plenty of people who had no difficulty getting one a year or at least one every other year. I on the other hand could not. I stumbled on to them out of season...

Which island? Each island is different both land wise and the reef/ocean around it. As an example a friend loves fishing off of Kauai, but when I got a quick trip to Maui he informed me offshore fishing there required a long trip out. Big island has scrub bulls (feral cattle) to hunt and moat...

I'll second that. I have hunted Namibia twice in May, and then South Africa in August/September and in January. Each had their ups and downs. If you're up for it you can hunt those two countries any month of the calendar.

You chose wisely. From experience Marius @KMG Hunting Safaris and the crew will treat you well. I set up my first hunt two years in advance and it worked out well, allowing me time to coordinate everything properly. Good luck.

Gents, I won't say the 6.5 Creedmoor won't do the job, I will say it doesn't have a lot of margin for error. If you've practiced, know your and the weapons limits and only take that correct shot, it does its job. That last part is where outfitters have issue. People stretch yardage and/or take...

From what My PHs and outfitters from southern Africa and friends up here in Alaska I chatted with have grumbled about. The 6.5 Creedmoor, because people expect too much from it. Not a good round for anything larger than a blesbok. Yet the latest hype and then lore about moose in Sweden dropping...

Gemmerbier, especially the locally made stuff in a recycled bottle like this brandy bottle.

Video- idiotic I agree with you on everything but the warning shot. Alaska Magazine had an article 10 or so years back about bear protection. One of the take aways from stats and experts was warning shots aren't really all that loud to them and rarely phase them much. And now you have less shots...

I was bowhunting only for years for big game aa a kid into my 20s. Then I picked up a rifle and realized for some game I enjoyed that. So I've come to the happy medium that I'm bowhunting only for certain species. I grew up in Tucson Arizona and to me javelina is bowhunting only and only on...

I have taken my own rifles on three hunts(two in Namibia and one in South Africa) and used a rental on a fourth in South Africa. No regrets either way. I just weigh the options. I took my bow on all of the hunts too. I rented on the one hunt because I was planning on travelling for a week and a...

If @BRICKBURN can take all that and more with a 270 Win using 130 grain TTSX, your 280 AI with 140 grain TTSX is more than capable. https://www.africahunting.com/threads/making-my-way-to-barnes.36029/ Making My Way To BARNES

Anchor river, Alaska. 29 inch steelhead on my 9 1/2 ft ultralight rod and a home made spinner.

Yep, I can bum around the desert growing up in Arizona or hunt the bush in southern Africa in shorts. But when I did grad work in north Florida with bobwhite we lived in double faced Carhartts and Bean boots all year round to beat through the greenbriars.

Depends on where and when. Central and northern parts of the state, forget it. Both mosquitoes and biting flies can be just miserable and you're in a bug suit plus repellant at times. But the Kenai peninsula and streams off of the Susitna river aren't bad, especially if it's breezy.

I regularly wear a Utilikilt fishing in Alaska. Hunting, not so much. I thought about it for southern Africa but thorn trees catch on lose clothing and a kilt is pretty lose compared to shorts, so the shorts won out. Bugs can fly up it a bit more than shorts, which I'm also often in, but not...

Thompson/Center Encore with a Great Plains keyhole stock. The previous stock, which cracked, was also uncheckered. I can't see a reason to blur this beautiful walnut with checkering.

Because we don't just want to just kill something, we want to hunt it. For some odd reason people seperate food and trophy hunting. You can do both at the same time. I had a goal of a mature bull on my first caribou fly out hunt. I got it, but trust me it filled my freezer well and tasted as...

Who would want to hunt so many animals. It's perception in both cases. The giraffe because of that neck and the zebra because it's a horse. I took both on my first hunt, and looking back that was probably number one and two on my list. To anyone who has been shocked about a giraffe hunt I have...

You state you needed to look deeper and find the less than perfect reviews. This is one of those and the outfitter needs to be named to prevent this from happening again.

Both the blue in the back in the first shot and the golden wildebeest in the last have good spread beyond ear tips and from basic appearance are good mature animals. Shooters in my book if they're what you're after.

Congrats on the steenbok with a bow, not an easy thing to do. I gotta say dealing with umpteen minor versions of a species and differing prices is not my thing. To each their own, sounds like this works for you.

So out of curiousity, does that mean Mississipi would allow a Thompson/Center Encore in 35 Whelen for that primitive season? It's got an exposed hammer and 35 caliber. Not exactly primitive, but whatever.