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Red clothes, like many plaid wool coats are not as visible to ungulates (and other mammals) as is blue. However, even here jeans are worn by hunters. Maybe slacks, often covered by vegetation, are less visible than coats.

In the small corner of Europe I live and hunt in, some dressing code is still alive. While modern Gore Tex apparel instead of loden (too heavy) are widely accepted, I remember an affluent lawyer, criticised for wearing a dark grey business suit instead of a traditional loden while visiting the...

Welcome Isaiah! Pity that you cannot own rifles in China, but I know you have some rare and interesting animals, like goral, serow and takin. How do you hunt wildboars? Stalking, sitting on the high seat or driven?

Attach a string to the can. So it presents itself for a second shot and, anyway, cannot get lost to pollute the area.

I prefer "braless", provided that the potential content is inspired to Korean, not to European neither to African standards

Thank you for the good pictures and congrats for the trophies.

Welcome, @mauser98! Years ago I travelled several times to Kelowna. Unoftunately, it was for business and I never had the time to arrange a guide hunt. Presently I am a bit to old for hunting in B.C.

Spooksar, a good story after a good hunt. Pardon my ignorance, what is a Red Sheep?

Weidmannsheil von Suedtirol!

Welcome Stig! Please, find the time to talk about caribou (or reindeer). It is an animal I read about but never saw.

Welcome to AH! Same question as VertogoBE here above: What will you be hunting and who will you be hunting with in Mozambique ?

Proneshooter, i sincerely wish you are not offended by my joke. The rifle is simply fantastic! In my ignorance of the American medium-small gun manufacturers ,I never heard the name "Satterlee" Do they produce actions starting from raw material or are they working on existing actions?

Note for younger people: the Peugot 404 was popular in the '60s-70s

A 404 can do everything in Africa!

Many thanks for to all collegues for interesting advices. After having getting rid of a few hundreds of bullets I still own enough lead and copper for many years of future stalks. I think I will give up researches. I am close to 80 so I will concentrate my efforts to zeroing and using the rest...

My Answers: 1. to SRvet. Yes I have a chronograph (an Ammomaster, sold by Sierra). The number of shot was not enough to establish a solid statitiscal base. 2. to KMG: I have no personal experience with buffaloes, neither with other large animals. My usual european quarry consist on roe deer...

Welcome to AH!

Last Saturday I tried a new load for Barnes bullets in .30-06. I used: -TTSX 150 grs bullets -Norma 203 B C 51,5 grs -CCI BR2 primers. The accuracy was good: 6 holes within 40 mm at 200 m. However the recoil was very heavy and the neck was regularly but completeliy blackened. Tomorrow I will...

I would like to hunt again in Namibia before I am too old (I will be 80 in August). Can anybody tell me what is the Covid situation in that land?

Sorry, I realise I posted my message in the wrong section. A warm welcome to the newly arrived and apologies for the mistake

I would like to hunt again in Namibia before I am too old (I will be 80 in August). Can anybody tell me what is the Covid situation in that land?

Maximum respect for the member of organisations like Global Rescue, but I am wondering about thei financement. Expensive recovery by air and ER treatment should by paid by a compulsory insurance, not by the Ladakh or Nepal (or Savoye) residents.

It'from Russia, i.e. from the aggressors. Send it to the Ukraina embassy as a contribution.

Hi Jim, I would be grateful for your" .30-06 with Barnes" recipe. I am trying to find a suitable replacement for the Sierra Gameking 150 grs I am using now, but I didn't succeed in duplicating its accuracy, Thanks ain advance

The manufacturing Country is not so important. Ages ago (1971) I bought a Nickel 6x30 (made in Germany) that 30 years later suddenly broke the crosshair (it was metal wire, not etched glass). After that failure i bought a Conquest 4,5-14x44(made in USA) still in service on a 7 mm Rem. Mag.

Welcome, with envy for your arsenal and for the hunting chances you have!

Don't complain with us. Just think that in this part of Europe we pay each year €173,166 ($182) for the shotgun/rifle licence. I may continue for ages, boring everybody and increasing my rage. You live in a happier place, believe me.

Nobody in liberal Europe is tested for emissions. Farthing is not forbidden by law.

I had good accuracy (3 shots in 30 mm at 200 m) with Barnes LRX - TSX-TTSX in 7 mm Rem. Mag., as wella as good terminal effect. One chamois doe ran about 80 m before collapsing, while many other aniamals (from roedeer to gemsbuck) fell on the spot or few steps away. On the other hand, I cannot...

Welcome to AH, Woody! Please, don't exaggerate tour problems. If declare that Illinois is a Communist republic, whta can say a poor European (or, worst, a Brit) about her/his Country? You can possess as many guns as you like, handguns are not forbidden and I may continue for ages. In France and...

Hungary is a great place for hunting European game (except chamois, mosse and bison) but a bit expensive. The hungarians (very friendly, I must say) will charge you with insurance (even if you are covered by the best in the world) hunting permit a.s.o. Anyway, amomg several godd hunting agents...

Hi Spingardone, Sorry for the horrible delay. I read just today your introduction. Your nickname reminds me a huge gauge 4 fowler gun exposed outside "Corte", a gunshop in Piazza Fontane Marose. With present days restrictions the gun cannot be there anymore, but maybe you know whether the shop...

Welcome Phil, ben arrivato! If memory helps the Giordano surname belongs to Piedmont. Am I right?

Terminal ballistics should be studied on inert targets (soap, phone books a.s.o.). Tests on living animals, unless dictated by hunger and/or unavailability of suitable ammo/weapon are as indecent as child porn.

The "last bite" is a Central European tradition, i.e. German, Austrian, Hungarian, Czech a.s.o. but not in use in other European Countries. I, living close to the Austrian border, follow that tradition while hunting here and in those Countries. The first time I hunted in France, however, I broke...

Hi Raye, Personally, I never hunted in Croatia, although I was there years ago on holiday a couple of times. The country has a good reputation as a host of hunters, with special reference to mouflon in a Mediterrenean environment. The coast and the islands where mouflon live ner the sea are...

I live in a very small flat and the space for trophies is limited at the point that I present them to friends or friends of friends. I hunted twice in Africa: the first time in SAR, later on in Namibia. I imported one set of warthog tusks and one impala skin from South Africa and nothing from...

Weidmannsheil as they say. One question, if you don't mind: How did you measure 102 cm horns?

12 ga. .30-06 7 Rem.Mag.

I read it just today. Mark, you are a great story teller. Congrats for the ram and the story.

Hi Mark, I appreciate your kindness. Lovski blagor!

Hi Janez, What game and where in Slovenia are you hunting? What is the the Covid19 situation now? Tanks for the attention and regards

A couple of friends of mine are planning a "culling hunt" in Maltahoehe (Namibia). The agency is sound (we already hunted with them), however I would be grateful to the forum colleagues for suggestions and advice. The proposed plan, ten heads (orix,sprinbuck, hartebeest) per hunter, seems to me...

Thanks again for the suggestions. Now I have another question. I had good results on roe and chamois with my 7mm Rem.Mag. and Barnes TSX-TTSX 140 grains bullets. Which weight do you suggest for oryx with the same type of bullet? Is 150 grs enough or have I to jump to 160 grs (shooting a bit less...

Many thanks to all of you

Non trophy antelopes, maybe warthog

Three friends are trying to tow me to Namibia. The idea is a cull hunt in Maltahoehe. Questions to the colleagues: 1. When is the best time in the year? 2. If the choosen month is June, is better at the beginning or toward the end? 3. What about security? I understand the situation worsened. Are...

Many thanks to everybody for the expertise. I am just back from SA, where i brought my CZ stutzen in 30-06. I was with 3 friend going after buffaloes and my rifle looked like a pea shooter among: one Steyr .375 H&H, one Ruger .416 Rem, one Sabatti double in .500. However my rifle did well, and...

Question for a friend, planning to hunt buffalo in South Africa with a .375 H&H. Which factory ammo, and in particular which Norma ammo (they are commenon in our place)? Many thanks in advance.