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View out of my front window of 150 or so elk in the field across the road and BozAngeles in the background. A winter sunset out of my front window. Some turkeys out of a window in the lower level of my house. More turkeys out of my kitchen window... Looking out of my Sister's kitchen...

I've hunted antelope most of the last 50 years in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. All DIY or DIY solo. My longest shot was 351 yards, and on most of my antelope hunts I've had my Golden Retriever with me. Much of antelope country has prickly pear cactus so leather gloves and knee pads are...

Many small caliber cartridges will kill an elk or moose, but there are much better choices.

My .223 Vanguard is one of my favorite PRACTICE rifles that I shoot almost every week. My .300 Wby and my 7mm RM rifles are my elk and moose rifles. I'll be using my .300 Wby for my Montana mountain goat this year.

Depends on the temperature. Sometimes shorts... Sometimes jeans...

I used a 168 gr TSX from my .300 Wby on my leopard. He died 19 steps from where I shot him. Before my leopard hunt I was considering a lion hunt and worked up a moa load with 300 gr Partitions for my .375 RUM.

I have recoil reducers in the stocks of 2 of my competition shotguns and in one of my hunting shotguns, along with reducers in my .300 Wby and my .375 RUM. One of my recoil reducers is mercury, the others are mechanical. I don't remember which one is mercury. They all help to reduce the felt...

I've been fortunate enough to have taken the GSCO Super 10 North American big game animals plus 9 more. I took 7 of my Super 10 animals here in Montana on DIY solo hunts that each only cost me a $25 resident tag and a tank of gas for my pickup. I've literally turned my house into a wildlife...

My Dad wasn't a hunter so I didn't go on my first deer hunt until 1965 and 1966 when I was in college with one of my roommates. I used borrowed rifles on those hunts. Then in 1967 I decided that I needed my own centerfire rifle so I ordered a .30-06 barreled action and semi-inleted stock blank...

To the OP's original question, I wouldn't hesitate to hunt a leopard with either a .308 or .300 Win. shooting any 150-180 gr expanding hunting bullet. Most leopard hunts are short range at a stationary target. Bullet placement is most important! With a shot through the chest, I wouldn't worry...

Beautiful stock! It's almost a twin to my .300 Weatherby that I built and checkered from a Richards semi-inleted blank.

I shot 300 gr Barnes TSX bullets from my .375 RUM on one African hunt. They completely penetrated the plains game that I shot with them. This picture is of of the one that I shot my buffalo with. It went in the near shoulder, throught the chest cavity, and stopped in the off shoulder. It's...

The first special tag that I drew after moving to Montana was for a Mountain goat. One of my co-workers was from Phillipsburg, MT and told me where in the Pintler Wilderness to find one. I waited until late season for the goats to get their long winter hair. When I finally went, I drove as...

I thought the day you resigned and put your bow down was the day in Mozambique when you killed your Roosevelt Sable with my .300 Weatherby. :LOL: (y)

I've only done two African DG hunts, both one shot kills with rifles that I custom stocked. A Zimbabwe Cape Buffalo with my Remington 700 in .375 RUM with a Leupold 2-7x scope and a Barnes 300 gr TSX handload... and a Mozambique Leopard with my Weatherby Vanguard in .300 Wby wearing a...

Since 1996 I've carried a Leatherman on my belt just about everywhere that I go. I'll usually also have a small folding knife in my pocket. A few years ago when I shot my Leopard in Mozambique, when the camp skinners started to skin him, I took out my pocket knife, similar to this one, but...

I prefer full body mounts over rugs. Fifty some years ago when I shot my first black bear I had him done in a rug mount. At one time I had it on the floor, but that gets in the way, and if people walk on it, that will ruin it. An animal rug takes up a lot of wall space, but I l now have him...

That's why I started to do pedestals. :D

Congrats on finding you dream rifle. Growing up in Colorado then moving to Montana 51 years ago where I've practically lived on the elk that I've shot, I've been a solid .30 caliber fan. My first centerfire rifle was a .30-06 that I later had rechambered to .30 Gibbs. At that time I also...

My taxidermist converted my Scimitar horn oryx wall mount to a pedestal mount by covering the back of the form with leather and imbeding a 1/2" id square tube inside the form. The tube in the mount slides over a 1/2" square rod that is welded on a 1/2" dia wood screw that screws into the top of...

Ive hunted both Bontebok and Blesboks. The hunts were very similar except the blesboks were in small herds, and the Bontebok was by himself. My Bontebok has a shinier and "richer" coat, and my bontebok (and many others that I've seen pictures of) has a solid white blaze on his face, while the...

OUTSTANDING!! I wish I had seen yours a few years earlier. :LOL: I am looking to do an Axis deer hunt....

Looks GREAT!! I've made 8 pedestals, all out of cherry wood, for some of my mounts, but they are all vertical hexagons and octagons. I made panels in the sides of the pedestals for my Sables and Zebra mounts and filled the panels with the hides of the backskins.

I didn't grow up in a hunting family so I didn't go on my first big game hunt until I was in college back in 1965. One of my roommates was from NW Colorado and he invited me to go there for my first deer hunt. He loaned me a Win 94 in .32 Spl and I shot a spike muley buck with it. Back at...

Short answer is that I used my 7mm RM on 2 African hunts, my .375 RUM on 2 hunts, and my .300 Wby on 3 hunts. I took a 7mm RM for PG in the Limpopo Province of South Africa on my first African hunt. My second African hunt was in Zimbabwe for Buffalo and PG where I used my .375 RUM, then back...

I'm like Ontario Hunter as I'm old school and I think that most of the modern "tadtical" rifles are just plain butt ugly. I've re-stocked most of my rifles, upgrading to fancier wood and doing the work myself. For two of my rifles I've always cringed on taking them on hunts where foul wet...

My .375 RUM came with a 26" barrel and I had a 2" brake installed on it. I've used it on 3 hunts with absolutely no problems.

In probably my first 10 or so years of living in Montana I wore the same yellow plaid shirt hunting...

Moose are not hard to kill with properly shot hits and proper bullets. You want a deep expanding bullet into the heart/lungs. I've shot 3 moose. Two Montana Shiras bulls with my .30 Gibbs and 180 gr Nosler Partitions and an Albert bull with my .300 Wby and a 180 gr Barnes TTSX. I took a...

Many floor pedestal mount forms are made with a concave curved back, but standard flat back forms can be used on pedestals. The previous pic of my Scimitar horn oryx is a flat back form that is mounted on a floor pedestal. My taxidermist has used two methods of attaching mounts to floor...

I used my .375 RUM with 270 gr Barnes TSX bullets on one South African hunt for 2 Steenboks, a Vaal Rhebok, and a Jackal. The holes weren't bad enough that my taxidermist couldn't fix them. I've had a hard, unsuccessful time finding 7mm FMJ bullets for my 7mm RM and ended up swaging .308 FMJ...

Years ago I was a big fan of Nancy Glaizer's North American wildlife paintings and I was able to buy #29/100 of 9 of her Artist Proof prints. When she still lived here in SW Montana, I had her sign several of them. I had 8 of these prints framed and on the walls of my Trophy Room and Living...

The 5 kilo flight limit applies to the total weight of the ammo that you are carrying, and may differ from the amount of ammo for each rife that you may bring into their country. On my 2nd trip to Mozambique, I was only after a Sable and some plains game, and only took my .300 Wby, along with 4...

I've only hunted 2 African dangerous game animals, a Cape Buffalo and a Leopard. Both were one shot kills with my handloads. The buffalo with a 300 gr Barnes TSX bullet from my Rem 700 .375 RUM and the Leopard with a 168 gr TTSX bullet from my .300 Weatherby.

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Annealing the brass before forming may collapse the shoulders.

Beautiful mount and a definate space saver!

There's a huge difference between encountering a close call and in provoking a close call.

I've only used my .375 RUM on two African hunts. The first hunt was in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and I used 300 gr Barnes TSX bullets handloaded at 2830 fps. A 50 yd broadside shot went through one shoulder, the chest cavity, and stopped in the off shoulder. It was a perfect mushroom: The...

I shot my first Antelope when I still lived in Colorado in the early '70s. After moving to Montana in 1975 I drew antelope tags almost every year and hunted them here until just a few years ago. I enjoy hunting them and like to eat them. I shot my first few antelope with my .30-06, a few...

I've been making pedestals and bases for some of my mounts for about the last 25 years. My first was this simple oak octagon base for my Muskox. Then I made this oak cabinet for my Central Canadian barren Ground Caribou. Then I made a bunch of hexagon and octagon bases out of oak and...

I've corrected that problem on a couple of bullet seating stems by radiusing the mouth of the stem with a Dremel tool. Using an inside case de-burring tool would also fix it, but the steel seating stem would be hard on the sharpness of the de-burring tool. A countersink drill bit in an...

The purpose of MAGNA Porting is to reduce muzzle jump. From their own advertizing, it will only reduce felt recoil by about 15%. A muzzle brake will reduce felt recoil by up to 50% or more. I bought my .375 RUM in 2004. At that time I was 58 years old, 6'1" and 220 #, lifted weights 3 times...

I made my first African hunt in 2000. Because of complictions of very nasty divorce I couldn't use my own rifle and borrowed a Rem 700 in 7mm RM with 140 gr Nosler BT bullets. The Outfitter and PHs all said that those bullets were a poor choice, but by the end of the week, I had used them to...

In the '70s through the '90s, two of my bighorn rams, one of my Shiras moose, my mountain goat, and about a couple of dozen elk that I hunted alone here in Montana only cost me a tank of gas and a $25 or less license.

I've hunted in Africa 6 times: 3 trips to SA, 2 to Moz, and 1 to Zim and SA. I've tried to hunt different critters on each trip and have mounted most of them. I still have a bucket list of African animals that I'd like to hunt, but along with my other North American and New Zealand mounts...

Years ago I found a 12 ga Rem 870 Express for a little over $200 and I thought it would be a good field gun so it followed me home. It has a black barrel and action and is in a black pllastic stock. I called it my UGLY GUN. I also bought a Skeet choke for it. When I got it home I put a spacer...

I have a .270 that I won in our gun club "Top Gun Shoot" 30 some years ago. I brought it home, glass bedded the action and put a scope on it, then worked up a 5 shot moa load for it, and have never taken it hunting. With my .257 Ackley, .308 Win, 7mm RM, and .300 Wby, I just can't fit my...

While I was working I wore a cheap Casio watch. At the end of this month I will have been retired 18 years. Since then my watch has been sitting, basically untouched, on my "catch all" kitchen counter. The time on it now reads 2 minutes fast than the time on my cell phone. I don't know...