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I guess you could say that I am slow to commit. Always interesting discussions and info here. I've been lucky enough to hunt all over the past 30+ years. Fairly experienced but looking forward to learning more about big bores and big game hunting from this seasoned group. Who knows, some of you may even be blessed with my opinions in the near future.

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Welcome to AH!
 
Hello Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy,

Khomas Highland Hunting Safaris of Namibia, welcomes you to the greatest forum on earth.

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Velo Dog.
 
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, welcome to the AH forum! Looking forward to your input.
 
Welcome aboard!
 
Welcome to AH, @Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy! It is a great site, glad to have you here.

If we can be of any assistance with US Customs or shipping, please call, email, or send me a message!
 
Welcome aboard "TSF," what part of Texas do you "hail" from. What do you consider "big bore." Are you implying that not all Texans " can shoot the eye out of a fly at 100 Yds. with iron sights?" LOL Looking forward to your input.
 
Welcome to AH Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy! Glad to have you on the posting side.
 
Welcome to the AH community!
 
Welcome aboard "TSF," what part of Texas do you "hail" from. What do you consider "big bore." Are you implying that not all Texans " can shoot the eye out of a fly at 100 Yds. with iron sights?" LOL Looking forward to your input.
I'm in the DFW area. To me, .375 H&H and up is a big bore. Purists may scoff and call that a medium bore but growing up in a deer camp where everyone carried a .270 (and me borrowing my granddad's .243) any .30 cal was a cannon.

I have a .375 H&H and .450/.400 currently and am taking a hard look at a .404 Jeff or .416 Rigby next.

My user name comes from a scientific fallacy based on an old joke. Guy says he's a great shot. To prove it he unloads at the side of a barn then goes and paints a target around his three closest shots. Thus proving his skill. The scientific fallacy is when someone cherry picks select info to confirm their bias and ignores the rest of the data. Thought that was a great name for a common concept.

And no, I am not in the hard sciences, I'm in business. Just have a curious mind.
 
Welcome to the dark side. AH is a great place for hunters of all kinds.
 
Welcome to AH!
Thanks for the welcome. I'm sure you hear this often, but thanks for giving a voice to the hunter in Trophy. That was a great opportunity to reach out to middle. Us hunters stay in our echo chamber too often.
 
Giday and welcome to the A H forums
 
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TSF, as a Michigan deer hunter I thought that a 30-06 was the largest caliber rifle I'd ever need. Then I started reading Shooting Times, Pederson's Hunting, and American Rifleman. I quickly discovered that in order to take an Elk, I needed a much more powerful and or a longer range rifle. I covered that perceived need, then I joined AH, where I discovered that all I had was a proverbial fly swatter. The need for bigger and bigger rifles never ends. Enjoy!!
 

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Currently doing a load development on a .404 Jeffrey... it's always surprising to load .423 caliber bullets into a .404 caliber rifle. But we love it when we get 400 Gr North Fork SS bullets to 2300 FPS, those should hammer down on buffalo. Next up are the Cutting Edge solids and then Raptors... load 200 rounds of ammo for the customer and on to the next gun!
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Spending a few years hunting out west then back to Africa!
mebawana wrote on MB_GP42's profile.
Hello. If you haven't already sold this rifle then I will purchase. Please advise. Thank you.
jbirdwell wrote on uplander01's profile.
I doubt you are interested in any trades but I was getting ready to list a Sauer 404 3 barrel set in the 10-12 price range if your interested. It has the 404J, 30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor barrel. Only the 30-06 had been shot and it has 7 rounds through it as I was working on breaking the barrel in. It also has both the synthetic thumbhole stock and somewhere between grade 3-5 non thumbhole stock

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