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DSC in a couple of weeks; Red Stag and Water Buffalo in Argentina in March; Roe Deer and playing tourist in Croatia in April; Pheasants in South Dakota in October; and deer here at our place November and December. Am considering a free range Scimitar Ibex in West Texas in the fall.

I know this whole editorial thing must be confusing for some. The opinion piece you are pasting was written by an editorialist and does not remotely represent the views of the paper. Guest editorials are printed to offer alternative views. On the other hand, the article I posted was prepared...

Here is another of @spike.t Mike's lovely Kafue Lechwe from Takeri. @PeteG 's very experienced description of how the herd mills about and begins to drift away was exactly my experience. They also usually manage to be on the far side of a dambo (flat) when first seen. A hand gun would not be...

Very solid piece from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board on the growing political fiasco that is Minneapolis. I realize we have at least one committed Trumpster here who believes the Journal is the domain of liberals and communists. The truth is the WSJ represents the opinions of most...

I almost won't walk twenty feet to the latrine much less a stalk without quality binos. Judging and spotting game is as much part of the experience and working with my PH as pulling a trigger. I usually use my Leica 10x42 Geovid Pro with range finder for North and South America and Europe...

Regrettably, the 14th amendment is very much in play with respect to who is counted which is why the influx of non-citizens to sanctuary blue states like California and New York , that are otherwise bleeding population, is so important to the democrats. The apportionment clause of the...

Good. Have known a couple of folks who set off pretty blindly on one of these adventures only to find real issues. You'll have a grand time.

That is called a sale. Buy now is not an auction.

Incremental bidding against your absentee max is how virtually all auctions work - firearms, estate, art, etc. I have participated in them locally and nationally for four decades. Throwing out a high bid is an individual tactic that you can't do absentee.

Abetted by state and local leadership.

If New Zeeland, be sure what you are getting into. The whole helicopter thing has zero appeal to me.

Not sure about your guy, but I don't take my significant other anywhere she has to squat in the thorns - or over a bucket. In Namibia at least, there are some wonderful lodges, hunting and non-hunting related, where a clean loo, hot shower, and gin and tonic are the perfect way to end a day in...

The 1930's decade following the NAZI assumption of power was not this country's finest hour as we refused entry and denied applications of thousands of German Jews attempting to flee the country. The most notorious incident was of course the MS St. Louis carrying 937 men, women, and children...

He is after all an expert on everything else. He makes Jerimiah Johnson look like a piker with his lone ventures into the Great White North; knows everything about dangerous game hunting and never had to leave South Africa; can do anything with his trusty Browning Auto 12 that Vincent Hancock...

Setting aside the choice of weapon, it is the worst hunt on which to take your family. You will be gone well before sunrise and return well after dark. You likely will not have an evening dinner with them until you take your cat. You will spend your days checking baits and freshening them as...

I do indeed, purchasing the set in the UK some years ago and hand carried it back (went under the seat not in the overhead!). Unfortunately, I keep it and most of my gun related library next door while the desktop is in my office here in the main house. My problem with this rifle was that I...

One of the common refrains of the uninformed chattering class is that ICE activity is not taking place in Red states. Currently, Texas is detaining an average of 176 illegals a day, or over 1200 a week. That is being accomplished with a minimum of public notice, much less outcry. Minnesota...

THANK YOU!! I have been trying to decipher the first two letters for years. Had not come up with “La”.

:unsure: Fair point. He did somewhat miss the possibility that we would continue to figure out how to robustly pursue politics by other means in the nuclear age. Spoke with him at some length around 87 (while he would have been writing "Mask of Command). It would have been interesting to...

You naval persons are oddly educated. Keegan's "Face of Battle" is the one of the most exceptional meditations on warfare ever written. Whenever I commanded, it was required reading for my subordinate officers (and yes, I would grill them on it through discussion). It is admittedly...

Against base population is another excellent way to demonstrate relative contribution and further underscore the blatant hurtful ignorance of my president.

My journey with firearms has been almost totally sentimental. It is surely why I own and use so many form the golden age before WWII. That doesn't mean practicality isn't a significant motivation - were it not, I would never have purchase an R8. But even the Blaser has a certain elegance as...

I suspect that the US Army has more specialized arctic troops than most of NATO combined. In 2022 the 11th Airborne Division was reactivated and is stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Fort Wainwright in Alaska. It represents a reorganization of two brigades of the 25th Infantry...

True, because I at least was that desperate to avoid the alternative.

Of course I know she is of Hindu culture. It is also general knowledge that she and her husband have an interfaith marriage and are raising their children as Christians. I simply find you a Cretan for thinking it is somehow of interest to anyone here that you would want to somehow try to...

If he doesn't need it, the smart thing is to keep it intact and leave to heirs. Their cost basis begins upon his death. I would hate to imagine some of his capital gains were he to try and sell.

I can highly recommend Martin Neuper's FN Hunting https://www.fnhunting.com/ in Austria with whom I have hunted several times and as recently as a year ago. When there for chamois, I hunted the Styrian Alps and it was a fabulous experience. Martin is represented in the States by the Hunting...

The two are virtually identical though his is a much finer finish. Mine has a Birmingham address and the maker's name (you can blow up the photo above) is something like Subenburg ?!? :E Shrug: I have never been able to find anything on him. Were it Suhl with a true trigger plate action, I...

I respect the service of the NCOs you know in the SOF community, but I think I'll stick with my assessment of the contributions and sacrifices made by our NATO allies in Afghanistan and in trying to put those sacrifices in some sort of context. For instance, because the US was providing so much...

Virtually all of NATO participated in some form to support us following 911 and essentially stayed to the bitter end. Polish troops earned a reputation for being particularly effective and fully 33,000 served during the course of the war and 43 were killed in action and nearly a thousand were...

Thanks to @rookhawk 's posting in classifieds of his lovely rook rifle and the discussion it generated, I thought it might be good to devote some discussion to these interesting little rifles that were so quickly eclipsed by rifles chambered in rounds like the 22 Savage HP, .22LR, and the flood...

When Trump spews absolute nonsense like this with respect to the sacrifice NATO troops made in Afghanistan it makes me sick to my stomach. This isn't clever trolling - it is ignorant disrespect. Nearly 500 British troops were killed and more than 2000 were wounded supposedly hiding "behind the...

In both my experience and and I would suggest even the briefest appraisal of history, boundaries and funerals bring out the worst in human beings - individuals or nation states. Whether a boundary fence, sovereignty, inheritance, or assassination, people and nations quickly slip into...

Well done!

Best I can tell Mark Rutte brought a copy of the already in place1951 defense pact with Greenland to the meeting with Trump and it forms the "framework" for whatever eventual "deal" is reached. :unsure:

"Anyone have better insights? I'm trying to plan when I get off the bus and take my winnings." This doesn't smell like a bubble - it reeks of one at this point. I do think geo-political actions have underpinned the run-up, but there is a very large layer of speculation and bandwagoners on top.

I was once pretty fluent in German (it returns pretty quickly after a week or so in Germany or Austria), so I can usually follow the gist of a conversation in Afrikaans - or at least enough, as @sureshot375 suggests to tell if I am the subject. :cool:

But get a Rand if you do not already own one.

They are special, but as @Tanks correctly notes they do multiply.

I will note this is the Economist, but assuming it is generally accurate - and other polls suggest it is - how does the ability of the administration to govern survive fall's election? https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

Really? That is rather sad. You have eliminated much of the finest prose ever put into the English language, a huge amount of which has taught me lessons or encouraged exploration that biography, history, or political science only suggests. For instance, I frankly can not imagine engaging the...

And yet the program was eventually cancelled for which one can point a finger squarely at Boeing and Army naivete in dealing with them. The Army named Boeing the system integrator rather than a traditional Army supplier like GD. Then, in an inexplicable act of stupidity allowed Boeing to...

The administration is serious about Golden Dome (as was Regan with SDI). We'll see what happens when the democrats return to power. There are three phases of flight in which an incoming missile can be engaged - launch, mid-course, and terminal. Israel's Iron Dome is a terminal phase intercept...

"A Night of Camp David" is a rather remarkable novel written by Fletcher Knebel in 1965. He was also the co-author of "Seven Days in May." Both are still in publication and Camp David was on the NY Times Best Seller List for 18 weeks. Without giving away the plot completely, it is the story...

If Biden had personally written, as Trump clearly did this, such incoherent, narcissist, babbling nonsense as this, the most staunch Trump supporters here would be alternating between derision. disgust, and demands for his resignation. This isn't a negotiating tactic. This exhibits the...

King ranch has one of the largest collection of rattlesnakes I have ever seen. Growing up in South Louisiana, I have a high tolerance for ole no shoulders, but I would not dream of hunting the King without snake boots. There will be occasional prickly pear, but little cactus compared to aoudad...

But unlike Roosevelt, Cota was in the second wave rather than the first. Of course, had Cota been in the first wave at Omaha, he likely would never have had the opportunity to rally those troops. Others landed as well. BG William Wydman, ADC of the 1ID, landed and was instrumental in getting...

I think what you described is absolutely accurate in effect if not exactly how I believe the "umbrella" came into being. Eisenhower was a great operational leader for an international army. With the exception of approving Market Garden, his decisions were generally cautious, but represented...

As a Trump skeptical conservative, I appreciate, even if not always in agreement with, many of your contributions to the political discussion. That said, I have enormous respect for @Scott CWO. You, I do not know form Adam. But he brings a hands on, hunting related business perspective that...

The mounts alone on that .416 would set someone back a couple of grand to have installed. Great pair of rifles.