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For anyone actually seriously considering buying one of the two rifles, Safari Outdoor in Johannesburg has both available on premise, so you can handle both in person before buying, and perform a side by side comparison to your heart’s content. I thought both were far too beautiful to take...

Following with interest.

This thread has done an excellent job of convincing me to avoid western hunting, and to spend my money in Eastern Europe and Africa.

Governments are always reaching for your wallet.

I’d be interested in knowing which dealers those were, if you still remember.

I’ve read they aren’t recommended for elephant, but I’ve also seen a number of references to their successful use. What says the Brain Trust?

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Like many on this board, my “overnight success” only took 40 years of work to achieve.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we crossed a border or two, but that’s one of the reasons why I’m not taking my own rifle on this hunt. We’ll see what we see.

Safari-EHA. My primary goals are Balkan and Carpathian chamois.

I’m also hunting Serbia, only in October. Be sure to keep us posted on your trip.

Your gun collection is just to die for.

A while back I bought a stainless Tikka 695 in .300 WM just because it had a relatively expensive scope that was worth about $100 less than the asking price of the combo. Much to my surprise, the rifle, complete with pre-scratched laminated stock, turned out to be a lights out shooter. It's my...

You will love the .500. It’s probably the easiest .500 to load and feed in existence. H335 is your friend and all you will need unless you want to get tricky and use .50 BMG bullets or go cast. The various 4895, 4064, Varget, Benchmark, RL15, all generally work well, and I’m sure there are half...

I stand corrected then. I suppose it ends up easier to find a local buyer.

The simple answer is to order some powder mail order, then re-use the correctly marked shipping containers and ship via the same method the original package was sent. It's reasonable to assume, Midway, MidSouth, Natchez, and Powder Valley know what they're doing and are well within the law.

Their very modest fee was more than repaid when my return flight was cancelled and the airline (United) tried to shovel me into a miserable and convoluted itinerary. I called their emergency number, and my situation was fixed in a couple or three hours.

I hunted with them in 2016, so my info may be dated, but feel free to pm me. TL;DR I have nothing bad to say about them, and a number of good things.

I’d look closely at the CEB solids, myself.

Bringing this to the top in case anyone missed this opportunity. The more, the merrier!

Out of curiosity, was the .500 brass correctly head stamped? .460 brass can just be run through the sizing die with a little imperial sizing wax, and .416 brass is easily fire formed with the cornmeal method, but I’ve been hesitant to travel internationally without correctly head stamped brass.

I can't imagine that anyone who doesn't practice that exact task on a regular basis has much of a chance of success. Shooting that well isn't trivial, regardless of what you see in the movies.

I often joke that the only decent airlines are the ones owned by dictatorships.

For the "500 Weatherby", is that the .500 A2 or the Wells, or yet another variant of a .460 necked up to .512"?

The AB Raptor looked really interesting until I saw the 22” minimum barrel restriction for 375. That pretty much killed any interest I had.

The challenge is working with straight walled cases. If they were bottleneck cases, I'd just use the WFT or similar trim tool and let it spin. Doing the same with the RCBS tool, which handles straight wall cases without difficulty is just masochism due to the slow trim speed.

I’m actually making .40-70 Sharps bottleneck brass from.45-90 brass, and cutoff plus jig is where I’m heading. That said, making a convenient jig isn’t all that simple, but I’m stumbling through it. I was hoping someone had an easy button, but they seem to be in short supply.

Hi everyone, What's the best way to perform larger trimming operations on brass? For example, cutting down a .500 S&W to .500 Special or similar, where the usual trimming or filing tools fall short. Thanks!

You took the words out of my mouth. I was born in UCLA hospital, and feel exactly the same way.

At the end of the day, good shooting with quality bullets rules everything. The only argument in favor of small calibers for general use is that you may shoot them better because of the more moderate recoil and noise. If the more powerful cartridge has no effect on your shot placement, there’s...

Always a compass. A gps, if reasonable. My gps also has iridium text, so it’s a must in truly rough areas.

The biggest plus for the Rigby is that you can walk into Safari Outdoors in Johannesburg and buy one off the shelf, if you have the $$$. I won’t lie: they were really pretty.

I did the same.

Say I have a nonstandard rifle receiver, like a P17 that's been customized. It's easy to measure the distance between the drill holes, but what's the best way to find the matching scope base thicknesses? Inquiring minds want to know this. Thanks!

That's what they say, but I recently had a near opportunity at about 115 yards that didn't come to pass because of visual obstruction. Try to be ready for any situation within reason.

I have a shoulder mount on the wall, and it turns out there are only two possible places it might fit in my house, which isn't small.. I'd do a pedestal mount instead if I did it again.

I just bought the Hi-Lux alternative, complete with TD-3C red dot. I won't pretend that the TD-3C is an RMR, but for $250 combined, it seems pretty solid for normal use. Installation on my 1957 M71 was a breeze once I removed the original screws which probably hadn't been moved in 60 years...

While I appreciate the huge step forward, I’ll let someone else be the first guinea pig.

Not to belabor the point, but at least 50% of the perception of recoil boils down to rifle weight and stock design. I have rifles in 378, 416 Weatherby, and 500 A2, and the recoil in all three is very acceptable. The 378 is a Brevex Mauser, the 416 is from H-S Precision, and the A2 is is an...

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I don’t know. That feline looks pretty suspicious to me. ;)

@matt85 Did you find learning to cast troublesome? I've got a couple of rifles that I "should" cast for, but I've been afraid to go down that rabbit hole. Can you really produce decent results with minimal equipment?

His work is still relevant today.

Correction: What a great place to be a dog with a really, really thick coat!

What a great place to be a dog!

While not high art, his videos nicely show the size of the bull reindeer. They also nicely show the windy conditions you can expect when hunting in that area.

The 16ga tri-barrel drillings tend to be much less blocky than their 12ga counterparts. I second the previous recommendations to focus on the 16ga if you want two shotgun barrels.

I’d dump the box, myself. The brass is either bad or suffering from some form of internal corrosion.

Well, you could just go full retard and split the difference by getting a brand new rifle in .358 Norma. I’m pretty sure even @Bob Nelson 35Whelen would approve. ;)

Just wow!