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The only special thing about my rig was that when I bought the mill, they guys at the shop insisted on directly bolting it to the bar. Rather than the clamps. That has turned out to be a great idea. Paid something like a grand for the 090, and guide. Paid for itself on the first project. In...

I love questions. It is pretty straight forward though. A lot of the issues come down to what you are trying to achieve. The scale. Is it to save money, or get something rare you can't buy. The mechanics for me were simple because other than milling cherry, mostly the projects were small...

How the saw works is obvious. The board has angle irons permanently screwed to it. At the ends, they are supported by wood. Strings are pulled tight and screws mounted to support the board above the log for a straight cut. This is part of the Will Malloff system from the book Chainsaw...

That is me. The most important thing is storage. :)

I have owned mostly Stihl saws in gas. But I heard good things about the Husky electric. One thing to consider is the overall battery system. Husky doesn't get you very far in that. I needed a replacement for my beloved barrel jigsaw that I had used to build almost 300 feet of personal...

If you think the US plays fair you haven't been, at best, paying attention. Just at the foundation they have the reserve currency that allowed them to send a blizzard of bad paper around the world and then have everyone else send money to the "safety" of US markets. Canada had the safest...

Here is a thought. If you look around, you will see articles saying you can reload 30-06 brass to 9.3x62. But then others say one should not do that because the head of the 30-06/308 family is a few thou smaller than the 9.3x62 standard, which is true. Then someone else mentioned, sure, but...

I do that, but only when the dandelions are ready to fall.

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Sounds good, but aren't there cases, sorta Reverse Schiffs, where they have to lie because they are privy to all kinds of info the public is not? Schity was famous for lying about what he wanted to weaponize since if he told the truth, he would violate secrecy laws and people fell for it. But...

Elui With World Record Cow Elephant Tusk, 1962 He documented, observed... Whatever the right word is, the death of 30 000 elephants for his book End of the Game He was married to Cheryl Tiegs, and had many other female admirers, and wives. The top photo is odd.

I did not mean it to be a smart az dis on gun handling. Given perspective, it might not even actually be pointing at the person in the frame. Just a joke about that Buffalo. As you know, they can play dead with thoughts of revenge.

Superb trophy, superb rifle, and someone is living a superb life. Having said all that, perhaps I can be forgiven for a gentle reprimand to the Buffalo for his safe gun handling...

Interesting question as to whether a single shot is controlled round feed. Assuming one does not drop the round, it would seem to have some of the features.

+1on your post. Spectacular trophy shot! I do feel on the expert thing, that it cuts two ways. There is something to be said about there being a challenge to using a more limited rifle. But a single shot works for people who if they can't be trusted to make a perfect shot, under the...

I agree with all that, basically. Professional shooters are not a good model for average joes. But if one wants to improve certain approaches it often starts in some form of competition. In the case of cowboy action shooting, there isn't a direct line to much of anything, but they have...

They were selling 9.3x62 barrels for the Garand up here in Ontario. Not a light and limber package maybe, should be able to put the hurt on, though. Speak of the... https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/9-3x62-Garand-Latest-update-/5-2428862/

The problem with that theory is that if it were sound, one would only carry semi auto rifles after African Game (because the point is so valid they would be widely legal). Or levers (in the few appropriate calibers), or things like the Blaser. Maybe doubles, though that tends to fall off in...

9.3x62. I may have already said. Where legal, could be in semi auto. There are several choices that show up on the 2nd hand market. I would note, that given all the brain wracking that goes into whether having two cartridge/action lengths is an impediment. Or whether a longer throw is a...

I would say: "...that they aren’t exciting or dangerous shoots…" Doesn't sound like a hunt at all. But the shooting could be riveting. A lot of African hunting is shooting from the client perspective, though you can develop hunting experience.

If neither had appeared in print, we would still know who Keith was because of the .357 mag, and the 44 mag. (without print he might not have had the chance with either, but the point is he was more than a prince of the page.)

1) These guys didn't seem to get on, at least in print, and that more than science seems to have been an issue. 2) While J O is remembered as Mr 270. Apparently he shot more game with the 30-06. The O6s have a ton of energy for just about anything. 3) Bullet quality back then either meant...

I have no idea where we stand at this point, but I was influenced by a competently done study decades ago that purported to have dispelled the big bullet for brush bucking theory. Basically the high velocity light bullets have much higher gyroscopic stability. Of course the bullet has be tough...

There are different legal rules on recording, but increasingly you need video for everything. Or audio.

I know it can be annoying, but in an effort to keep this thread on track... Experts suggest there is no point in getting a barrel to do a No.1 unless you have two actions, or are possibly planing a pistol in the same caliber.

My favourite if only in the general neighbourhood: https://www.westleyrichards.com/theexplora/john-millars-4-bore-hammer-rifle-a-10-year-labour-of-love/

Do you have a picture of the other side of that rifle. Interested in the peep. Cheers!

Is it possible that there is no happy medium? Either you need to be tight on the comb and ride it (sounds like a custom proposition), our you want the thing so low it can't lay it's hands on you. I had thought that the point of the classic Weatherby stock was that it would move back and...

Isn't he the guy who practiced law for one year before taking the express elevator to his current position?

The US military is the largest org in the world. You have contracting, military knowledge and politics. She is low to middling in all those things. Which is no slight. She is 43. Her military experience is medical and policing. She seems like a far nicer person than Kamila, and crushed her...

Necessity is the mother of invention.

My youngest is in first year, and many professors called in sick today...

Elitism and Wokism aren't necessarily lacking in idealism, or honour. Very much not my cup of tea. But elites have gotten us to where we are, and woke works because it is believed to be more freedom and civil rights, by people who haven't looked under the hood. The Democrats are closer to a...

Did Mark Elias report for work this morning?

I think we should spare a tear for the losers. It is good sportsmanship. Maybe Cheyney, and Waltz could go out for a hunt together, and see who wins?

The big question is who will MAGA run next time. Maybe Lake went down for the umpteenth time. Vance is good on the stump but he doesn't have the deep pockets that kept Trump out of jail amidst all the lawfare. Plus two experienced sons to fight in his corner. One option (?) Vance or Don Jr...

He probably owned a Model T, and crank phone at one time. Bullets were probably fairly primitive in his day. He probably had more opportunities for a mixed bags, and less concern about nearby dwellings and people. He was a tough guy, as far as his early life, and experiences like being...

In the grizz camp reports, the issue was that not only does the client screw up the unpressured shot with a heavier gun, and few even had 375s, the issue was that the guides did worse cleaning up the mess. Conceptually the client who saved the day, had to because he had already dropped the...

I mentioned that thing about the archery test, maybe a cheap (completely unsubtle version of the PSE test), would be to slow mo video a supplicant shooting an air rifle, a 30-06, and a "got me whatever I'm takin' to Africa rifle". Ultra slow motion, then compare that to a wholly competent...

I don't have an opinion on that feat, but another instance that I return to the early days of silhouette pistol for. Not there or anything, I just remember reports that one of the earlier matches was won by a guy with a 1911/45 ACP and hard ball. Targets that have to be hit out to 200 yds...

Same thing with Cowboy Action Shooting, which it being Canada, I did not do (you can, just a lot more red tape than I prefer). But it is a discipline that shows you how to run certain rifles, and how to get efficiency up. You can apply that thinking to any shooting activity, if you can get...

An option, if you can do it in a way that doesn't weaken a stock is to get the tungsten powder they sell for golf clubs, and mix a slurry up with a quality epoxy like WEST system, or RAKA. You can then get it to bond into the stock. Tungsten is heavier than lead.

Archery has an interesting phenomenon that may apply here also. Shooters from the best hunters to Olympians believe they can shoot bows that are actually too heavy for them. This is such a chronic problem that a top shooting school developed a program to counter this perception. At the end of...

That seems to me to be precisely wrong for today. Not long after that quote was first published (1879) military cartridges were available to drive even 6.5mm bullets into the brain of elephants. 7MM, and up, preferred. Round, softish balls increasing in diameter by the odd linearity of a...

It is questionable whether the issue can really be decided on a board like this made up of potentially more devoted participants. The reality of working retail 40 years ago when it was my uni job was that someone would wander into the store around 2 PM, on a Friday, and say they were off to...

Obviously one does not believe that a jazz playing actor is the same person that he plays in the movies, even if he did a lot of his own stunts. But watching him play mediocre golf really bursts the bubble.

I happened to get a letter to the editor of Traditional Bowhunting published, back when it was print only, on the subject of trophy hunting, which not even that community seemed to agree on. My point was that as we practiced it, it was normally a matter of self guided hunts, for superior...

There has long been a tradition of using the words "hunting", or "shooting" selectively. Hunters find the game and try to shoot it. Shooter don't find the game but may shoot it. Something like driven game shooting employing beaters, is likely not described as hunting. Using professional...

This isn't the '40s any more, most people are shooting those bush deer with a bolt gun, and possibly a 3x9 scope. Basically Carlos Hathcock's gear. Many of those same timber hunters shoot groundhogs in the off season, and in the pastures, those ranges can be extreme. I took an archery...

That has been on my rifle list for some time. Unfortunately they show up only infrequently, and then usually in the Ackley version for some kind of long range shooting, with a heavy barrel. There must be some other cartridge that is a stand-in. The 8s and 8.5s The 35 Whelen, 8.5x63, and the...