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It's good that you pointed that out. We mainly read the novels of all these authors, where everything is often presented in a somewhat embellished way. If we could see videos of their exploits, we might also be disappointed sometimes.

In Africa, superstition is deeply rooted in many people. In Burkina Faso, every time I shot a buffalo, I had to distribute some of its body parts among the guide and the trackers. As long as they are only animal parts needed for local medicine, it's okay. Unfortunately, in some countries of...

There are also other prices for hunts in Africa, but they depend on other factors. If you know people, have friends and various connections to certain countries, prices sometimes look different than in the previous catalogs or the current websites of the outfitters. Unfortunately, nobody can...

The cheapest PG and buffalo hunts were in West Africa, especially Burkina Faso and Benin, which offered hunts comparable to what most people know from Southeast and South Africa. Unfortunately, the hunting areas in both countries are no longer accessible due to terrorism. In the other countries...

You cannot get a useful answer to this question. The prices vary greatly depending on the country, on the game you are hunting, although there can be very different prices depending on where this game is hunted. You also have to take the outfitter into account because in the same area some are...

Hülsen Horneber Fürth/Germany

I don't want to talk you out of your choice, but for that money I would rather have a nice rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum built. A rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum is because of the recoil anyway at the upper limit of what can reasonably be used, but is much more versatile if you need to...

As many have already written, you can easily shoot the heaviest wild boar by using the cartridge 270 Winchester. As always, this assumes a good shot placement and that is where the problem lies by hunting conditions at dusk and at night with a night vision scope. Many of us are familiar with...

As a side note, the title is big tuskers, but the heaviest wild boars don't always have the biggest tusks. The heaviest wild boar I have shot was in Malaysia. We did not weigh it, but two of us could not move it. Since I once shot a wild boar weighing 140 kg, in comparison this wild boar...

Not just the cartridge 270 Winchester, even smaller caliber cartridges will do the job. A friend of mine shot of his hunting area from a hochsitz a wild boar over 100 kg with the cartridge 6,5x65R because nothing else was available at the time. He was hunting roe deers and the boar was an...

Don't do that. I have been hunting worldwide for 40 years and have seen how everything is getting increasingly difficult when traveling with rifles and ammunition. Nowadays a little detail that an authority does not like can completely ruin your trip. There are enough standardized containers...

Your question surprises me a bit. Are you a native Austrian? No matter, this is about hunting abroad and with perhaps expensive hunting fees. Whatever is wounded will be paid for. Stalking at dusk and at night is not without risks. Sure, you can shoot wild boars with the cartridge 270...

I use this boxes for the cartridge 577 Nitro Express and 600 Nitro Express. https://www.frankonia.de/p/mtm/patronenbox-rf-22-lm/133994

K.H.Ritterbusch/Seehausen am Staffelsee-Bavaria/Germany No longer active.

If you want to be 99% sure that the bullets will stay in, you have to use classic SP bullets. The newer SP models with reinforced walls are also no longer an absolute guarantee. The problem with such bullets remain their working on heavy big game, which is not quite optimal in all cases...

You will have to ask them. A lot can be done to order. It's not always easy because they want to make money, but compromises can be found. I had a similar problem with my rifle caliber 500 Schüler. At the time, there were no serial rifles in the caliber 500 Jeffery and you could only have one...

Maybe, but I had two times also a pass trough with 450gr A-Frame bullets. Perhaps the 460 Weatherby Magnum cartridge was the reason, I don't know.

That's right, the majority of buffalo are shot near or in the herds, but the use of premium bullets like TSX or A-Frame are in my opinion a no 100% guarantee to avoid a pass trough.

Famous French proverb : L'exception confirme la règle ! The exception proves the rule.

Sure, but it is not only about money but above all about the risk of wounded another animals with all the suffering that this brings.

It's called hunting fever. Not all of us suffer from this, not even when we are younger. Without it makes us stay much calmer and better able to assess many situations.

It's not always easy to shoot a buffalo in, or even close to a herd. Aside from all the disturbances that the herd causes and lead to movement and mass flight, the main problem remains if something is behind the selected buffalo. If this is the case, you don't shoot, no matter what cartridges or...

It's very difficult to judge and condemn all of this if you were not there. @Hunter-Habib As for the attack in Africa’s Black Death, we interpreted it differently in the 1990s. MS could have easily shot the prone buffalo, but he waited a long time before firing and missed it. But that was the...

@Wildwillalaska I try to answer the topic as objectively as possible because most of us are non-professional hunters and as far big bore rifles caliber 50 and up are concerned, we are in the domain of enthusiasts. I own a rifle caliber 12,7x70 Schüler that I had built end of the nineties...

I don't know exactly what you are looking for. Recknagel has something like that. The piece is not machined because they need to be reworked as needed to fit at a rifle and according to the customer's specifications. https://www.recknagel.de/info-service/katalog/ Katalog 10 / page 7

Sure, if you consider shooting distances of up to 50 meters maximum, there are hardly any noticeable differences. But there is room for discussion about shooting distances on DG always being under 50 meters.

It is certain that at close ranges, the difference in the effectiveness of 9,3mm and 375 caliber cartridges can be comparable. Nevertheless, one should consider the impact velocity of a bullet, which is a more important parameter than the muzzle velocity. Many bullet failures are due to a lack...

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The cartridge 9,3x64 does not have the same aura as the cartridge 9,3x62 for hunting in Africa, as it came onto the market somewhat later and then found sufficient use for hunting heavy game in Germany of this time. In the French part of Africa it seemed to gain a certain popularity after the...

That is a good argument for its use. In Europe, you hardly hear anything about it, but we have no problems for buying factory loads 9,3x64 or components for reloading this cartridge.

Offers no advantages over the cartridge 9,3x64. Rarely found nowadays.

There are differences between legal and ethical. The legal minimum is often a compromise to ensure that a suitable rifle, that everyone should normally be able to handle, is used. If for ethical reasons you set the minimum too high, there is a risk that some people will no longer be able to...

You can kill larger game with many different smaller cartridges, as long as the bullet is well placed and penetrates deeply enough, but it always remains very risky. Mistakes by the use of combined rifles are reported where bigger red deers would be accidentally killed with the 22 Magnum. But...

Apart from all that, it is very difficult to load cartridges with cordite and almost impossible to reload it with cordite. Bottle-necked cartridges would have to be finally shaped after the load was inside. With cylindrical cartridge cases it is a little easier.

The cases we are talking about in post # 6 are all Berdan cases. Berdan cases can be reloaded easily if you have the right primers. The main problem remains the removal of the fired primers, but it also works. As for barrel corrosion, at last only the mercuric primers were responsible for this...

November is a good time to participate in a driven hunt, a hunt which is not too difficult to organize for a foreigner at short notice. It is best to ask the outfitter I mentioned above about this. Such hunts are one of his main focuses.

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https://westfalia-jagdreisen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Angebote2020/Mongolei_Argali_2024_ENG.pdf I found this one in Altai during an Ibex and Maral hunt. It is not very big.

Reloading the cartridge 460 Weatherby Magnum is necessary in all cases, primarily for cost reasons so that you can train as often as possible, but also to make loads suitable for the tropics. Initially I tried hunting with original Weatherby ammunition from the seventies. That was barely...

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Original rifle Second stock The last one

The rifle was built with a Brevex Magnum Mauser action and remained as it was originally. I had to change the stock two times in the last thirty years because it cracked over the time and after many shots.

You can have one built or buy an used one, what I did about thirty years ago by buying a custom rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum built 1974 and without any recoil reducing devices.

I have some Silver's pads on older rifles, but I would not have one mounted on a modern custom rifle.There are much better butt plate pads available nowadays and even some models that might satisfy traditionalists.

The smell after shooting did not surprise me. It smells mostly like our NC powder, but since the nitroglycerin content is high, it would perhaps more comparable to double base powder. I could not detect the acetone smell that some people have described, but perhaps this refers to the smell of...

Like me, English does not seem to be your first language. We therefore have to concentrate very hard on what we write in order to be understood more or less well. I don't understand what you are trying to tell us, because the original topic of the discussion was whether, if the cartridge 9,3x62...

If the ammunition is not in its original box, the year of production cannot be determined. Kynoch discontinued production of cordite-loaded cartridges in the early 1970s. Generally, the age of ammunition plays in theory no role in its usability if it was stored under good conditions, but in...

The elephant looked aggressive and ready to attack. Perhaps they should have been a bit braver at the beginning, approaching it closer to shot it, Mark Sullivan style.

36:25 The shooting opportunity, but we don't know what the hunter saw because we have the camera's angle. I see a lot of branches and there may have been a problem. It certainly did not go ideally, but despite everything, I would not judge the hunter and his PH from the armchairs at home. The...