WASHED-UP-VET
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Hello gents,
I just completed a quite successful plains-game safari in South Africa, Limpopo province. I booked the hunt with John Mcadams of Big Game Hunting Adventures. He is an Army Veteran. I am also an Army Veteran. He plans with attention to detail and covers everything. He double-checked our flights, had our weapons permits ready. Everything was smooth. Our PH Johan picked us up at the airport and helped us with baggage and firearms and the staff assisted us until the end when dropped back off at OR Tambo Intl Airport. Our trip was from June 20th through 29th, those were the dates we flew. I took my son Marshall with me, who is 11. My good friend Wayne Morgan from church who is also a USMC Veteran came and hunted plains-game as well.
Kobus Kok & Johan Seyffert are the two PH's who are partners in running the hunting camp. Both were excellent, support staff were also excellent. Lodging was first class, meals, accommodations, daily laundry.
Essential Kit:
Remington 700 Sendero .300 win mag
Vortex scope
180 grain Swift Scirocco Handloads at 3,050 fps
Vortex binos
Garmin gps
Iridium satphone
Buck knife
Gerber tool
Camelbak
I successfully took 7 different species with 7 rounds of ammunition. I attribute this to practicing off sticks regularly, and lots of hiking in boots each week. I also studied The Perfect Shot book for shot placement. The .300 win hit hard, only the wildebeest and zebra stopped the bullet. The others were full penetration and exit wounds. Game reactions varied from falling straight down to running no more than 60 yards for recovery. I took a female Sable, Jackal, Blue Wildebeest, Zebra, Blesbok, Warthog, Impala. My son also took a Blue Wildebeest on the last day!
The recovered Swift Scirocco bullet began life as a 180 grain projectile, it weighed 143 grains or 79% weight retention, overall diameter was 0.660" which is around 2.1 x expansion. I so enjoyed sitting at the firepit at night, eating freshly taken steaks for dinner. I even got to shoot my PH's .458 win mag and it was awesome.
I did not post my friend Wayne's pictures, but he successfully took Kudu, Gemsbok, Impala, Zebra, and Blue Wildebeest. He also used a .300 win mag. We are already discussing going back for Cape Buffalo as well as some of the other plains-game stuff.
I just completed a quite successful plains-game safari in South Africa, Limpopo province. I booked the hunt with John Mcadams of Big Game Hunting Adventures. He is an Army Veteran. I am also an Army Veteran. He plans with attention to detail and covers everything. He double-checked our flights, had our weapons permits ready. Everything was smooth. Our PH Johan picked us up at the airport and helped us with baggage and firearms and the staff assisted us until the end when dropped back off at OR Tambo Intl Airport. Our trip was from June 20th through 29th, those were the dates we flew. I took my son Marshall with me, who is 11. My good friend Wayne Morgan from church who is also a USMC Veteran came and hunted plains-game as well.
Kobus Kok & Johan Seyffert are the two PH's who are partners in running the hunting camp. Both were excellent, support staff were also excellent. Lodging was first class, meals, accommodations, daily laundry.
Essential Kit:
Remington 700 Sendero .300 win mag
Vortex scope
180 grain Swift Scirocco Handloads at 3,050 fps
Vortex binos
Garmin gps
Iridium satphone
Buck knife
Gerber tool
Camelbak
I successfully took 7 different species with 7 rounds of ammunition. I attribute this to practicing off sticks regularly, and lots of hiking in boots each week. I also studied The Perfect Shot book for shot placement. The .300 win hit hard, only the wildebeest and zebra stopped the bullet. The others were full penetration and exit wounds. Game reactions varied from falling straight down to running no more than 60 yards for recovery. I took a female Sable, Jackal, Blue Wildebeest, Zebra, Blesbok, Warthog, Impala. My son also took a Blue Wildebeest on the last day!
The recovered Swift Scirocco bullet began life as a 180 grain projectile, it weighed 143 grains or 79% weight retention, overall diameter was 0.660" which is around 2.1 x expansion. I so enjoyed sitting at the firepit at night, eating freshly taken steaks for dinner. I even got to shoot my PH's .458 win mag and it was awesome.
I did not post my friend Wayne's pictures, but he successfully took Kudu, Gemsbok, Impala, Zebra, and Blue Wildebeest. He also used a .300 win mag. We are already discussing going back for Cape Buffalo as well as some of the other plains-game stuff.
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