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As long as it does not exceed the current Croatian national No. 1 bear it can be exported. This one does not (barely).

There were red deer everywhere. I would expect the roar to be truly awesome. You both also will have a ball playing tourist.

DO NOT use the link if in the US. Order it thru the regular US Amazon site and you will not have the import or extra shipping costs.

Lufthansa is one of my favorite rides - Delta, just reconfirming it over to Europe and back a few days ago, remains one of the worst. I should add that a Lufthansa flight crew also tends not to look like an overweight post menopausal support group. Your family may be too large, but a couple...

I have known Roger Jergenson, who represents Worldwide Trophy Adventures (WTA) https://worldwidetrophyadventures.com/ in Europe, for seven or eight years. We first hunted together when he was employed by Martin Neuper's exceptional FN Hunting https://www.fnhunting.com/ operation based in...

Facts and actual experience vice what one “knows” is true. Bubble or stovepipe, it is a form of self-induced intellectual imprisonment that is far more effective than anything conceived of by Goebbels or Molotov. Yesterday’s highest search term on X was “staged.”

I am sure things should be improved, but I don’t think any personal security detail on the planet will stop an assault by “10 to 20 highly trained” assassins.

Great hunt, beautiful location, and wonderful hosts. Start back day after tomorrow.

It is early morning in Dubrovnik, a must visit for anyone booking a hunting trip in Croatia. I will be writing a full report when I get back, but I wanted to put a quick stop to negative speculation, by anyone who has not actually hunted with Mike and Lisa at their lovely Hunting Lodge or used...

Joseph Goebbels would applaud. The evil Jew and his machinations undermining an Aryan Nordic Elysium.

Thus far, the US Israeli combined operations have destroyed the Iranian capability to project any real combat power, relegated their nuclear program and missile production to the future projects office, and when coupled with the damage done HAMAS and Hezbollah, left their proxies in...

Seems to occupy your mind daily - perhaps hourly.

If it doesn’t roll it doesn’t fly. I use a military style rectangular wheeled go bag by Force Protection. The current one has been going strong for at least a dozen international trips. I am looking at it now as I type here in Zagreb. I do put TSA locks on it, but if someone wants to rummage...

Been traveling internationally with firearms for 20+ through a number of different ports of entry over the years and never had gun related delay remotely like that returning to the States.

He truly isn't worth the response time. He is trolling. He is interested in reciting talking points and being a contrarian - not debate. Like too many post millennial trollers, he oozes entitlement rather than applauding, or more importantly, representing achievement.

Original condition, about which Winchester and Colt collectors obsess, is not so important in an English or Continental firearm. It looks like the stock was freshened not so long ago. Assuming the rifling is in good shape, think I would send the metal to Turnbull and have it renewed with a...

I grew up in an academic family and watched my father, a dean, deal with the whole tenure nonsense back in the seventies and eighties. It has only become worse as the university teaching profession has become more lucrative (thanks to the student loan came). My decade and a bit in the...

Exactly. :cool: And a successful one with two successful children apparently your age. Though, they didn't learn about credit and financial responsibility in college.

Not just the Pakis. All the Gulf States and Israelis follow the same practices. I twice walked past ajar hotel rooms during talks to catch glimpses of significant electronic equipment which I have no doubt was monitoring phones, in room conversations, and typically video. One of those hotels...

What I find particularly amusing were it not so unfortunate for the country is the typical Millennial complaining about how their every failure to properly save or invest, apply themselves, develop some real sense of ambition, or value hard work over grievance is all the Boomers' fault. They...

They also grow them big in Austria and Spain. Both of these were spot and stalk. However, would agree the best value for a large boar would be Central Europe.

If we can step back from all of the cross Atlantic gnashing of teeth for a moment, it is interesting to watch Trump when he is playing shrewd politics. He sends the Vice President of the United States as his head of delegation to the talks with Iran. Vance, of course, has the trust of the...

LOL meant to type "HAVE A GREAT HUNT." :E Shrug: Have no odea how mine may turn out.

I have grand hunt. Will be in the same country for driven boar in late November. Will interesting to compare notes

In most cases, questions like this can be answered by the heart or the head. My heart would say either a Highland Stalker or Bailey Bradshaw in 9.3 to match my .275 or 7x65R respectively. However, at that price point, my mind says it is not even close - a Blaser R8 standard configuration...

Of course they do not. However, the more capable, the better equipped, the better trained, and the most adaptive force will react more quickly and lethally to those changing conditions. Russia holds none of those cards in a contest with the United States. I frankly believe they have held only...

There will be no conventional missile "exchange" with the Russian military. It is a lot of trouble for small and unlikely return to put a single small to medium sized warhead - typically 500 - 1000 lbs on a strategic target. It is why we only employ them in the tactical environment. The...

All, I would suggest ignoring @Big Easy. He has been here a while, but on this thread he is a typical troll, with the intellectual capacity and discipline of 14 year old. Heck, after looking at the few non politics posts he has made, that may be generous. When he gets no responses after...

I know many of you, for some good reason, despise the NY Times. I also suspect many have rarely read an article ever actually printed in it. I would urge all of you to make an exception for this one - if there isn't a paywall. During any administration, there will be three or four journalists...

Well - not exactly. We have had the technology to destroy drones - alone, in pairs, and in swarms since I left the defense industry (2014). We have not done anything meaningful from a procurement standpoint because we have been wishing away the problem for that same decade. I would be stunned...

I was literally staggered by when one of our Australian members posted this righteous boast. "At least we hold people accountable for yet to be proven crimes" Truly Orwellian.

Absolutely ridiculous. But I am sure the government, the prosecution, and the woke Australian left are wallowing in their collective virtue. Awarded the Victoria Cross.

It is a very open target market - and a well off one.

I would agree with @mdwest with respect to Politico. It is a tab on this device. The NY Times is terrible and the Washington Post is worse on political and cultural issues. But how else does one understand the confirmation bias of the left?

Interesting, if somewhat overwrought, view of the current global situation from a British conservative position.

Exactly one. Most of Fox's evening programing in relentlessly right leaning, even Trump fawning editorialism. However, Bret Baer hosts the evening news program. While it leans right of center, I find it far and away the most thorough pure news option in this country. It is one reason...

No, but it does say something about Ukrainian ability to deal with those air defenses. Were that the US Air Force or Navy tasked with taking down that bridge how long do you believe it would be left standing?

Whenever I go abroad, I am so despondent when I realize the average informed European, who tries to follow some English news content, only sees CNN international. Even supposedly moderate raters of our news services consider CNN left of center in a more normal political climate. For the last...

Actually the Russians built it. Completed it four or five years before the 2022 invasion. Putin dedicated it in person. Prior to the invasion it carried railroad and road ladened fuel and materiel - some military and some not. Lots of Russian tourists used it headed to the beaches of Crimea...

Turn 74 this year. Have had the good fortune to take four cape buffalo in three different countries over the last dozen years or so. Have taken a leopard and no desire to take an elephant or white rhino. No reflection on those who do or have. Have crawled up close on a black rhino and huge...

Awarded a frigging Victoria Cross.

Oh my God!!!!! - "At least we hold people accountable for yet to be proven crimes" - Exactly the point I am trying to make. That reads like it was copied from the woke catechism - or perhaps "Mein Kampf" (or perhaps George Orwell). Every dictator in history would heartily agree with you...

I am not sure Down Under has a lot to talk about this evening. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668

Beat you to it. :cool:

As @mdwest has pointed out ad nauseum to the culturally effete, Trump has is own method of negotiation + business or internationally. Would it be my preferred bunting for such actions - no - but the fundamental methodology - employment of unbearable power is something both I, any fan of Teddy...

You have a gift for stating uninformed things with such sarcastic conviction. The bridge was built by the Russians. Work began 2016 and Putin himself opened and dedicated it three or four years before the invasion. Prior to 2022 it carried fuel and material by both rail and truck - some...

Let's not get too carried away. Mark Rutte is the current Secretary General of NATO and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He seems quite competent, and moreover seems to manage Trump rather well. I think Europe's greatest risk will be whether it is able to form a lasting continental...

In the spring of 1982, the Regan administration was in the midst of a major diplomatic initiative to develop better relations across the Southern Hemisphere and particularly with the Junta in Argentina. This was part of the administration's refocus on national interests rather than human rights...

People make up authoritative sounding nonsense about anything. Other people are ignorant enough to believe it. We have the a vast concentration of our SOF assets in the region. Not only is it absolutely plausible that this mission was planned and executed on this timeline, but that two...

I suggest a better study with regard to the American perception of the prosecution of war would be for you to study our Civil War and Sherman's March to the Sea and subsequent immediate drive through the Carolinas. It tore the economic heart out of the South, making it impossible to supply...