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My absolute most accurate load, sub-MOA, is Oryx at about 2250 fps. I wouldn't use those on buffalo, but I'd sure use them on anything else.

Same, except with 2000MR and 286 A Frame at 2475. I got identical performance from Big Game that I do from 2000MR

OAL is unique to rifle and bullet. Literally every 286/285 gr bullet I've put into my 9.3, which includes all except Woodleigh and Barnes, ogive was on lands at about 84.5 or 84.6 mm. As @baxterb pointed out, the 300 gr is a swaged-down 375 bullet, so different nose profile. But - as with...

Depends on the restaurant. At high end establishments where the bill is often $500 or more (a lot more), a FT waiter can earn 100K USD+ At low-end establishments frequented by a certain demographic that doesn't tip, maybe $15 - 20k

You should watch "Man of God" about Saint Nectarios (free on Amazon Prime in the US). I don't know how he maintained such a state of humility. I'd be eaten up with at least 2 of the 8 Deadly Passions, probably 3.

“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or...

In the immortal words of Cpl Ray Person...there are levels of retardation. This moron hit the pinnacle, or the nadir, depending on your POV I guess.

I'd hunt ele under 2 conditions tuskless cow an old bull on his last set of molars, don't even care about the ivory, wouldn't care if one side was completely broken off at the root and the other side was half broken. One broken tusk sitting up here next to my office would still be a great...

Has the ZA government finally changed its stance on this, or are you talking SW Moz? Last I checked with my Limpopo PH a few months back, Timbavati and surrounding areas was still no ele hunting, not even for tuskless (which is pretty stupid if you ask me, especially given the ele population...

I've heard Mark Haldane his own self say not to use TSX for risk of over-penetration. I'm loading up North Fork 430 gr SS for my 404J when I go back next year. I had good fortune with A Frame last time, but they're unobtanium in anything but .366 for a couple years.

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The helo squadron my son flew in out of Norfolk, VA - had been assisting the USCG with drug interdiction in the Caribbean for quite a long time until around 2022 or so. Those helos went on those missions armed for bear.

this may be a repeat, but it's worth the storage, I think

That I am aware of, all spiders are venomous. How-some-ever, for most of them, the venom is not toxic to humans. And in some cases, the venom is only toxic to humans and their prey (funnel web spiders fall in this category, I believe, but they're only in Oz). I'm not a huge fan of spiders, I...

Yep. 11 weeks old on Friday, I've already got him sitting and laying pretty consistently. "Come" is a work in progress, as are "sit stay" and "down stay". Still easily distracted, so the click with sit and down has to be within 7 or 8 seconds. He's also doing a pretty decent job of...

That's what I got myself for Christmas (well, the missus and I got ourselves). Biscuit is a border doodle.

Especially if that 1 drink is white zinfandel.

In Africa, I'll deal with what comes. White tail hunting loses its luster in weather like this.

Currently 81º here. And humid. Did I mention it's humid? Surely I've mentioned it's humid. No way am I deer hunting in this crap weather.

We can stipulate there was a kingdom of some sort in Rhodesia. But those sorts were the exceptions, as I've now twice mentioned. Africa is rich in natural resources. That is without question. What is also without question is that even the "advanced" civilization in Rhodesia at that time...

You are describing exceptions, not rules, which is really my point.

My friend, this Fall has been insane. I haven't even been on the reloading bench yet, let alone to the range. I'm off until 5 january, gonna try to get on the bench tomorrow and the range monday.

Hornady COAL is just stupid short for those Interlocks I ended up at 3.325 - 3.33 with AF, 62 gr of 2000MR got me to 2475, started the ladder at 58, half grain increments, still mo pressure at 62, but figured 2475 was as much as I needed anyway

I think the idea of governance is an alien concept to people who do not think in the abstract, who often really just don't think much further than tomorrow, or at most, until the next harvest. Imagine an army run by nothing but PFCs, with no thought on logistics or strategy. I think that's...

While true, what this overlooks is that corruption is the norm in sub-Sahara Africa. I'm actually not aware of any exceptions to this. Allegiances there are narrow, small: family and the local tribe, in that order. Europe is certainly tribal, but it was never THAT tribal. Today's western...

And knowing this, they still can't grok that 1 trillion seconds is about 31,500 years.

Back in the day when I bird hunted and did a bit of skeet shooting, my best day at the range was 24, but normal 19 - 21. So I'm out dove hunting, single bird coming straight at me from the high house, I miss it 3x. Flies by me maybe 50 yards while I'm reloading, pulls a 180, flies right back...

Can't remember, I know your dad and I had a few phone calls about it - which bullets did you guys settle on? I have more different bullets for my 9.3 than anything else - norma, swift, nosler x2, hornady, speer, and hammer, but no RN, though I am sorely tempted to try out some Woodleigh 320 RN...

I have one, the stock cracked right in front of the trigger guard, so I replaced it with a Boyd's. They seem to have missed the center line on mine for the scope mounts, too far left by about 15 thou as nearly as I can tell by the amount I had to drift the front sight to the right to get it to...

The salient point is what can you do with the Weatherby that you can't with an H&H? Extend lethal range by an extra 75 yards? That might be useful in Coutadas 10 and 11. But where else? A 300 gr bullet at 2700 doesn't kill buffalo any deader or more reliably than it does it 2500. I just...

What can you do with a 300 gr bullet at 2700 fps that you can't do at 2450 or 2550 fps? Better is better, and faster is faster. But it doesn't follow with necessity that faster is better. Ol' Roy had some pretty good ideas in small bore, but big mediums and large bore...the game is very...

I've got 150+ 286 gr A Frames on my loading bench waiting to be used. That'd be a "nah" on the Barnes. And if I can't get any more Swift, I'd go with North Fork SS or Woodleigh 320s.

I have it on good authority...the chick on the right is named Gorlock the Destroyer

Of course He did - via voluntarism. There is no morality outside of volition. To the Church, I give as much as I am able. To the government, I "give" as little as I can get away with giving and not go to jail. The 2 are not even remotely the same.

https://freebeacon.com/america/no-us-citizens-meet-the-it-firms-discriminating-against-americans/

I'll take "crap that never happened" for $2000, Alex. Thought about sticking this in politics, but what the heck. Not a subscriber, but you can read it here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/A-gun-in-the-editor-s-top-drawer-13045074.php

Man, what a painful season. How do you have a 4K yard quarterback last year and do absolutely nothing with him this year???

For 225 gr pills, you've got quite a few choices with BC north of .45, and that's what it'll take to reach 250 with enough speed for expansion and with enough energy to put through an elk. For the lighter ones, what you gain in speed you give up in BC and still end up with about the same max...

338 bullets are common, so is 308 brass.

Always wanted a 338 Federal. Nice thing about 225 gr pills at 2400 fps is that's still in the wheelhouse of reliability for non-premium pills.

That didn't take very long

In for a penny, in for a pound. If you roll your own, you can always dial 458 Lott back to 458 WM loads, but you can't push 458 WM loads to 458 Lott levels.