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Berretta made a gorgeous double rifle - the Model 455.

Have you considered the 9.3x62? It's a superb classic calibre that can take everything up to DG. I've taken cape buff and onyx with mine.

My wife's not a hunter - but she is a gorgeous babe!!

All the meat is given free to the locals. This is biltong cut from my elephant, being hung to cure.

An old cow taken with my 458 Win Mag.

My cow elephant taken at 35yds.

Inspecting the NP Scout's AK47.

Some of the amazing character of my beautiful dagga boy!!

Beautiful old dagga boy taken after an incredible stalk - the last 50yds taking over 30mins!! - to get within 35yds.

We found some bushmen rock paintings in the middle of Savé.

I totally agree!! I was there in July. Savé is a very difficult place to hunt - but so rewarding!! After a difficult, meticulous, stalk (50yds over 30mins!!) I managed to take a beautiful old dagga boy. Though my 500gr RNSN broke the left shoulder, tore the heart almost in two, and broke the...

The question is: what's you're favourite hunting cartridges, not calibres. So, if I had to choose only 3 to cover every eventuality I opine: 22LR, 12g shotgun, and 9.3x62. Why the 9.3x62 and not the 375HH? 1) It can do everything the 375HH can out to 250yds, 2) It's just as accurate (and has...

Hunter - by J A Hunter Uganda Safari - by B Herne (a really good, and funny book!!) Africa's most dangerous - K Robertson (considered by many to be the "Bible" on hunting cape buff.)

That's why I got a .458 Win Mag (the Lott was not commercially available way back then) as my first dG calibre, and have never felt under-gunned ever since. Indeed on one buff hunt in Zambia, my Zim PH was using the camp 375HH. One day his tracker was lagging behind with the 375HH when we came...

In my own experience, Ive taken buff - broadside - using 500gr RNSN over 72gr AR2206H powder. In every case the bullet has been found under the hide on the opposite side.

I reload my own ammunition for hunting, and I've taken a few cape buffalo and hippo using copper-jacketed Woodleigh 500gr RNSNs in my 458. Without exception these projectiles give superb straight line penetration and weight retention (98%). I've also taken cape buff with my 9.3x62, using...

Congratulations on the wildebeeste!! Your experience reminds me of my experience with a wildebeeste. Back in 1990 I was 19 and on my first African hunt. One afternoon I was restless in camp, so my PH told me to take a tracker and go see what I could find (my PH stayed in camp reading "Lonesome...

Hi all! I'm considering doing a buff/tuskless and PG hunt with my son into the Savé Conservancy. Has anyone hunted there recently? And if so, what was the numbers and quality of game like? Thanks in advance.

I blame COVID. IMO some outlandish prices may be due to some dealers capitalising through profiteering in the wake of the worldwide epidemic.

Pre-1909 rifle calibres I'd take: 470 NE 9.3x62 7x57mm - and for me that's saying a lot because I love my 30/06 Spr. Of course a 12g, matched to my 470 NE double, would be "de rigueur".

A few hours ago, idly watching YouTube, I found two great videos on the calibre for anyone who's interested: 1) Ron Spomer's: "The surprising 9.3x62 rifle cartridge" 2) Bill Wilson's: "The Ruger 77 in 9.3x62mm: Bill Wilson's favourite hunting rifle".

Yes I've heard that too about the 375HH. However, Kevin Robertson in his book "Africa's most dangerous" states that his Brno 9.3x62 "client" rifle has taken over 600 cape buffalo. And just like when using the 375HH, placement of that first round is critical, and always have your PH backing you...

It's a SUPERB calibre. Dropped a cape buff with mine. No sweat!

I heard that too from PHs I was with in Zim and elsewhere. As identified by others he embellished stories - and used his gift for telling a story to write some entertaining books - but I think the problem arose from those stories he implied were his OWN experiences (ie: writing in "the first...

The weirdest thing I've shot is a shovel nosed shark, using my Ruger M77 in .30/06. 1 shot brained it.

Howdy mate!! Im glad you've pulled up a chair and joined us!! (y)

Yet republicans are ok with calling the opposition "demonrats" but get upset when labelled a supporter of the "repugnant" party? As someone replied earlier: "You know that is simply not done in polite society" - so sorry, but if you can't take it - don't dish it out. QED.

Im sure of that. But IMO when the expert political analysis starts, it's gone from a hunting forum for hunters, to just another form of the media - with a the inherent bias!

Maybe it was "bomb throwing" but just to test a point to the nth degree. But in casting normal political action/reaction as some kind of underground resistance to a tyrranical regime is stretching the point a bit too far I think - as you said yourself, "that's not done in polite society". But...

So triggered if someone has an opinion that different from yours? Hmmm!! Then maybe that's probably why there are opposing political parties to start with, huh? If there wasn't then we'd all be under one party states, just as Germany became in the 30's, and look what happened then. But as for...

IMO that has a lot to do with the manipulation of the media in not supporting/advocating for sport hunting or target shooting. Yet it's quite ok and proper for society to tacitly condone your local abbatoir by enjoying the convenience of buying cellophane portions of meat and fish at your local...

Some of those recovered hydros look as if they could be reloaded. (y)

I totally agree!! Woodleighs are a great game projectile. I've taken over half a dozen African DG (so far), from a hippo on the run at 120yds down to a quatering on cape buff at 35. Their 500gr RNSN, atop 72gr of AR2206H, just flattens game!! I run Woodies out of my 9.3x62 (286gr RNSN) and my...

You're just upset, and venting your (wildly inaccurate!) xenophobia, that someone other than a repugnant party member or demonrat has an opinion on this forum. By the vitriol some have expressed through the mainstream media (yes, I know it's all 150% incorrect if not pro-repugnant), it's seeming...

Only point I've ever made has been confirmed by analysis of those in the business, and now on here, that Trump lost because voters didn't like him, per se, than the republican party policies. I never like him, and not only have the balls to say so, but why - which now seems why he lost. But the...

Then I'll keep an eye outfor you in the wholly untrustworthy media - those who are obviously not pro-repugnant party - for the headlines.

Yep, another member of the repugnant party. But for all the ranting and raving it's now become the fashion for those who lose an election to bitch and cry foul, no matter what. If there was electoral fraud, then such expert armchair political expert analysts should stop ranting on and on about...

Yep, another member of the repugnant party but for all the ranting and raving it's now the fashion for those who lose an election to always cry foul no matter what. If there was electoral fraud, then all the expert armchair political experts should stop talking about what they KNOW, and...

I feel your pain brother!!

I can't say as I've got no first hand experience in using them. But I can only suggest you talk to Geoff at Woodleighs as they're his company's projectiles and he'd have all the gen.

You've more or less stated the same thing as another guy's response. O,disrespect, but I'm not going to repeat it, but just read through - you'll find it. Cheers!

Yep, I get it you're a dyed-in-wool member of the repunant party - as opposed to those villainous good for nothing demonrats! But this is the US democracy, as enshrined by your constitution and laws, as the bastion of the free world - so let's see how this one pans out!! If Biden gets in, then...

Yeah that's fine to agree to disagree, but your figures may just go to show how many people come out of the woodwork for this election - OR - BOTH sides have been indulging in a bit of voter fraud to get the record numbers?

Its a much more laid back affair in Oz, people just accept the outcome - and if they don't like it vote the other way in 3yrs time! But to keep the 2 main parties honest, if the state government is one party, some people vote the other way (federally) - that way there's some degree of checks and...

I acknowledge your point, but regardless since the early naughties, each side has accused foul when they've lost the election. The ongoing post-election shit-fight seems to be a normal part of the fun now.