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We have offered the OP the benefit of our experience. No one was being a - how did you put it - "a prick." Taxidermy appears in Austin Auction shttps://www.austinauction.com/ , with which I am very familiar, every other month or so. Lots of Texans down this way have done a lot of hunting and...

In Africa, I have never used the outfitter's taxidermist for finished trophies. I have always used whomever he has locally for D&P/shipping. It is never an issue.

Your best bet will be an auction with other hunting related items. You won't get what you want for them, but you will get something, and they won't mildew away in a storage container.

"Something hinky" Seriously?!? This is your "contribution" to this thread. Looks like oil o me. What a classless thing to do to a classified listing. Send him a PM if you have such a question. There are at least two other photos that show the perfect rust blue of the same area of the...

Judging by the pins, apparently a true sidelock, however that is a butt ugly action treatment. Also seems to have undisguised sleeved factory barrels and it is not stocked to the fences, so perhaps an Italian creation? A quick Grok search indicates Strauss owns both a .470 and 450-400. The...

Meindl's Top Trail GTX is the finest true "stalking boot" I have ever owned. They are extremely quiet. I have three different pair of Kenetrek's. As a true mountain boot, they are great. My favorite of the lot is the Desert Guide. But as a stalking boot, you might as well strap on a pair...

I use suppressors on several rifles for specific purposes. My DD M4 is my primary repel boarders home defense firearm and it is suppressed. I have another AR based 5.56 that is equipped with suppressor and thermal to deal with pigs in the pecans and armadillos in the shrubbery. I have a .22...

I am a big fan of Hugh Hewitt. I have assumed, and suggested here a couple of times, that the President would likely pursue a comprehensive immigration solution during the second half of his administration. By that time, the vast majority of illegals with records would be gone and the notion...

Bodycam requirements have been one of the best things to happen to LEOs almost everywhere.

Friday Saturday as well. See you at dinner.

The turnout in the special election runoff was 15.3% of the more than 600K registered voters. Voter turnout in the General election of 24 was 63% and Trump won the district by around 17%. The republican party needs to figure out how to motivate their voters this fall.

Other than reiterate that there is a very good chance that we will witness a blue wave in November. The party has lost the narrative on the affordability issue, and the optics surrounding ICE operations are as bad as several of us warned they could be a year or more ago.

As I suggested several pages back, it is remarkably prescient for 55 years ago.

I can't tell you how important it is to have something to stay meaningfully busy - that doesn't mean a demanding schedule - but going from a daily pattern to zero is a great way to wake up dead within far too short a span of years. :rolleyes: The patch of ground plan is a good one. I have a...

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This is just one politician, who was promptly charged with discrediting the Russian armed forces, and it was in a regional Duma (parliament) in Samara, but one can't help but wonder if Putin's political foundation might be starting to show the first signs of stress cracks.

Yes, I made a couple of assumptions about the assertions you wrote. After all, if you claim Europe starts wars that it expects the US to fight, a logical supporting fact would be relative casualties. I provided them to illustrate how false that claim was with respect to WWI and II. You will...

Not strange at all - pragmatic strategic reality. The Anglo Polish military alliance specifically recognized aggression by Germany - the USSR was not mentioned. The French guarantee was also directed toward potential German aggression. The German invasion launched 1 September triggered both...

I think that is initially correct. However, with the Italian and then German occupation of North Africa threatening Egypt and the larger Middle East, and Japanese attacks on Singapore and India, the war became about Empire as well. 2.5 million Indian soldiers in addition to other commonwealth...

This is such a nonfactual statement. In what European conflict after 1900 has "Europe" started a war against a non-European foe? Excluding the Russo-Japanese War, in which we did not participate except as a peacemaker, such a condition has not happened. Therefore, I assume you are trying to...

At heart, I am a war profiteer. One year growth for Northrop is 44.4%, Lockheed is 37%, GD is 39%, and RTX is 59.7%.

How dare you challenge his incessant inanity. After all, you are only, well you know, a judge! One of the really sad things is when someone doesn't quite grasp when they are the subject of laughter and ridicule rather than a participant.

You have to love it. No idea whatsoever, not the most remote clue, what evidence was presented to a Federal judge to obtain a warrant but the situation is - how was it so articulately expressed - oh yes, "messed up." Our Joy Behar revelation of the day.

Those you who claim to understand what our President is doing on the international stage, please translate this note for me. What "deal" is the Iranian leadership supposed to make - self decapitation?

Very similar to Black Forest, but this is renaissance revival 19th C Northern France. The nice thing about Euros, particularly those done as Euros rather than Americos, is they work perfectly with period European furniture (our thing) or more modern or rustic looks.

I do all the whitetail and axis myself.

I get the European plaques off eBay and Etsy for whitetail/ mule deer and similar sized animals like fallow and axis. The warthog plaques came from a dealer who had a couple on 1stDibs.

Euro's are a great choice for most African game. I do not care for leaving the upper teeth in. Except for Spain, most of Europe slices the skull so it lies flat on the mounting plaque. Perhaps the whole skull, which to me looks like something found on the back forty, should be called an...

Assuming the restoration was done properly, and the stock of this one looks very good, all you have done is increased the value. Collectors treat American firearms like they are collecting coins or stamps. British and Continental guns were regularly refreshed.

ww A message to the public is critical, however the news cycle probably doesn't justify a counter lie.

Born in Thibodaux, and I also caught entirely too many choupique thinking I had nailed a huge bass.

Along with the President. To quote our most quotable senator - when referring to Trump, John Kennedy observed, "tweeting a little less would not cause brain damage," and that Trump "grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought." I assume that makes Kennedy a swamp traitor in what passes...

I continue to be very cautiously hopeful that Bari Weiss is making some incremental progress in dragging CBS News back toward the middle of the political spectrum. This is the most dispassionate review of the shooting of Pretti that I have yet read. One would hope the various spokespeople for...

I like and use them all. With respect to rifles that have a tactical look, that has been the story in this country after every major conflict. WWI and returning Doughboys largely heralded the demise of the lever action and mid-range loads as America's primary hunting arms. WWII made...

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...