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I intentionally hunted all of the previous deer season with my .300win to prep for Zimbabwe incase I got my tuskless early and glad I did. This season I’ll be taking my .375 BRNO and using 270gr Federal blue box SP to build up a base of loading brass. I will be aiming for the front shoulder...

Cigarettes in Zimbabwe are $2 per pack at the local Mola village store, in the city some can be bought for as cheap as $6 per carton so if your gifting cigarettes you might as well buy them there. I skipped the bringing knives and brought a Costco sized box of rice crispy treats and Kirkland...

Agreed on the assholes, there was a massive collection of them with their ENTIRE family at DFW and each person had a bag the size of a studio apartment. It took over 3 hours just to check in. As for the global entry, I have TSA precheck and it did me absolutely no good.

If your going through DFW that still may not be enough time; seriously I got there 4 hours early and after check in and security I walked up to the gate as boarding began. If I would have stopped for dinner on the way to the airport I would have missed the flight.

Because the entire Qatar staff is relying on 1 person who knows what they are doing, so you have 5 people watching one person fill out a form. Neither myself or my hunting travel agent knew anything about this new form until I walked up to the counter. Seriously, the Qatar counter @ DFW was...

I feel your pain!…. I got to DFW 4 hours before boarding and it took me over 3 hours to check in, it took so long to check in that TSA precheck was closed at the gate. I walked up to the gate just in time to board, seriously my worst airline experience to date.

I found their axes to be of more utility compared to what you typically get in the USA; the dark handled one was actually used on my elephant.

I did contact Woodleigh and they said I had to go through a dealer; had an OZ dealer ship some over but he no longer ships internationally. So I’m glad to see @RAVEN ROCKS PRECISION taking up the Woodleigh imports.

I followed @Mark A Ouellette advise and put a 1moa RMR on my .470 and couldn't be happier with it.

@HankBuck - I fully understand where you are coming from; because I've been down that road myself with suing a gunsmith. https://www.africahunting.com/threads/avoid-gunsmith-quicksand-classic-barrel-gunworks-prescott-arizona-dan-pedersen.70629/ I've also been through this with evicting a...

@JeffUSMC What’s your time worth? Because by the time your done with small claims court or any other legal means of recourse you will wish you had kissed that $1K goodbye…. And that’s assuming you win. I’ve done at least 6 trips to Canada and after my last trip to Ontario I decided that there...

Target practice….. imagine slamming a couple 500gr .470 solids into the outboard motors of a pirate skiff as it attempts to deploy a boarding ladder. Honestly, I’d pay for that aqua Safari!

It’s called a photo op… Clinton did the same thing and then signed the 1994 “crime bill”

I agree with you on the average liberal voter; the problem is the liberal elite are blatantly exploiting the moral high ground delusions of their voting base to achieve their goal of power consolidation and crushing competition for their financial overlords.

I’ve been crimping for the last 25 years and see no reason to stop. FYI - you will also listen to PH’s and others talk about (insert random “logic”) is the reason you pull the back trigger on a double first - which is incorrect.

Well I can personally vouch for the .474 Hydro and would like to see it in stock. This one recovered from an elephant, the tip was found by axe. I use Woodleigh .474 500gr SP & Hydros and get same point of impact with the same load in my .470ne

The .423 are Hornady - Just compare the blemished product # to the factory product # I've used their .474 blemished bullets in .470ne and they were excellent.

Yep and as mentioned, that’s a lot of grips, handles, ect …. No telling what the “value added” total would be in the secondary finished product for anything from knives to handles for extremely high end ladies hairbrushes that are also a status symbol for certain cultures.

Not that hard to figure out.... I've been told that raw ivory in China sells for $800-$1,500 per pound. So for 112lbs of Ivory your looking at a value from $89,600-$168,000.... Purchased for $27,000 There are LOTS of Asian people living in Texas that would have made that purchase all day long...

I am cautious about this issue when hunting with others, when I'm guiding whitetail hunters I always insist on taping the muzzle of the clients gun so it doesn't get clogged with mud/dirt incase of a stumble or fall..... and I use ORANGE electrical tape for this, so even in the dark I can tell...

I used PWP for my first trip to Zimbabwe a couple of weeks ago and I had a few issues that had to be sorted. My Zim paperwork had an incorrect birthday listed - glad I caught that when Kasey sent me documents for review before she sent them out. I sent them copies of the 4457 forms for my guns...

Great caliber, I’ve seen them used extensively for whitetail in the USA. The 101gr Barnes LRX bullet at 3,300fps shoots like a laser and hits hard. 120gr Nosler partitions at 3,150fps is extremely effective as well.

That’s one classy and versatile rifle sir; Krieghoff cocking safety is really growing on me after seeing Philips in Zimbabwe and that 500/416 with a good red dot and practice could be a 200yd rifle or probably much further on various game. Combine that trajectory with TSX and a premium solid...

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If Biltong is your car air freshener!

VOLATILE chemicals being distilled under pressure and all the seals are kept tight by dozens of vise grip pliers....... YEP; in Texas that's what we call a TMO(Typical Mexican Operation)!

@Gert Odendaal I too would suggest CH4D dies - I upgraded my .470ne dies from Hornady to CH4D at the suggestion of Ken Owen who regulated my .470ne and I can honestly say my brass is lasting much longer although I will say that CH4D is a small company and don't be surprised if they take...

Well said sir! I completed my first dangerous game hunt less than 2 weeks ago and I'm afraid I'll be chasing this dragon in perpetuity.

Agreed! I found out about the Atlanta move 3 days after I paid for my DSC life membership.....

Well I didn't want to highjack the OP thread but hear you go.... Recovered .470 Hydro- 494gr because it was found with an axe that cut a part of the tip off The report.... https://www.africahunting.com/threads/zimbabwe-2024-my-first-trip-to-africa-dalton-york.84009/

Agreed, Thankfully Botswana's president had the best response to this.... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68715164

I don’t believe stocks are on the list of controlled items for import into Australia FYI

With your criteria @towserthemouser I believe the 450/400 is your best bet and will get the most enjoyment out of; having said that I’ve owned my .470ne for a few years now and love it especially since I shot my first elephant with it two weeks ago.

.470ne 500gr Woodleigh Hydro 78gr of IMR3031 and Knyoch wad with WLRM primer. Muzzle velocity 2050fps Shot distance 11yds on tuskless estimated 3.5 metric tons. This bullet is believed to be the first shot at the tuskless cow that was quartering to me and nearly cut a 3” diameter tree limb in...

Nancy Pelosi isn’t crazy….. she’s another C word that’s more popular in Australia

I hear you and agreed with you about taking foreign carriers whenever possible; this last flight just opened my eyes. I will also say the appearance of the Qsuite was much better than the DFW- São Paulo AA business class suite thing I had a couple years back.

Well that is interesting, I will say after flying cattle class(economy) from DFW to DOH for 14hrs then 8hrs DOH to JNB on Qatar I was seriously unimpressed from start to finish and would not fly Qatar again unless I was in a Qsuite. Yes I have flown both business and economy on flights just as...

You are correct, basically impossible to hold someone against their will..... ever since Carter

I'm not sure of the chefs name but I know he took great care of us, my favorite was the Impala Schnitzel(Chicken fried steak) and he makes amazing gravy to go with it. Field lunches were equally amazing.... Chef made chicken quiche and we added fresh grilled buffalo steak, roasted elephant &...

Green - .470ne With Woodleigh Hydros

On arrival to Jburg we stayed at African Sky and on departure we stayed at the Intercontinental hotel. Both are great, but I will say that I enjoyed African Sky more; it was nice being around hunters from all over, Ivan Carter and family were having dinner at the table next to us.

Agreed! I believe the 6gr loss of weight was due to an axe hitting the tip of it during meat cutting. Especially considering it went through a 3” branch before hitting a big cows front shoulder, heart and break rib on the off side… yeah I’m a believer now having used Woodleigh .470 Hydros now...

Dan WORKED for that bull, I'd be willing to bet he walked more during those 9 days than every other hunter in camp combined! Hope I'm assisting and not intruding - but here is a pic of the recovered cup point I took during the meat recovery from Mr. T.

Yes I have pics... but post mortem and I wanted to respect Dan @abnhog, incase he wanted do his own write up. Which looks like he has https://www.africahunting.com/threads/dalton-and-york-safaris-and-mr-t.84058/

Not Botswana or Namibia, but I did take my first elephant on July 2nd - Tuskless in Zimbabwe. Not only was this my first elephant but my first ever animal in Africa; I studied the videos and diagrams but Murphy's law being a ruling factor in my life the shot that was presented wasn't discussed...

Yes and you bring up a very good point! Gentlemen, imagine making your living as a PH and having to pay $200usd for a box of 20 .308win and upwards of $900usd for .458Lott or .416Rigby. So I would suggest bringing the maximum amount of ammo for your rifles that you can legally haul and leaving...

Yes it is!... and that's actually Scott's palm in the picture. As you well know Scott is working towards his PH license and has to log a certain number of hunts in order to meet the requirements to be examined; so he was spending as much time in the bush as he could while also taking care of...

Appreciate it.... But Hornady is me and my friends least favorite die company and if I'm going to have to wait months to get a set of dies I'd rather wait on the brand I want. Still looking for a set of .450Ackley dies

The following morning all that is left is to pack up and get our invoices from Dalton With enough time to take a quick pic beside this massive Baobab Tree Then catch our ride back to Harare Then just like that my first trip to Africa/Zimbabwe comes to an end and we start the return journey...

Day 10 - Best laid plans..... With Dan's Bull on the ground and close to camp Dalton want's to bring in a tractor and load the meat up and take it all to a nearby village to keep hundreds of people from stomping around the lodge/hunting area and disturbing the future hunting. Unfortunately the...