Velo Dog
AH ambassador
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2014
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- Location
- Anchorage Alaska, USA
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- NRA Life Member.
- Hunted
- Africa 7 times. And the USA - most western states including Alaska and Hawaii.
Good Fellows and Good Dear Huntresses,
Stop the presses ! .... This just in on the wire;
At long last, old Velo Dog once again is booked for Namibia = September 5 through October 5, this year / 2021.
My outstanding wife will be going with me this time.
It will be her 2nd time to Africa and my 6th.
Also, we plan to spend a few days touring Germany afterward, before finally flying home to Anchorage.
My Mother-in-Law will be living in our house and taking care of our hideous mongrel, until our triumphant return back here to Ruby Ridge Compound.
On this topic, my wife is not a hunter per se.
However, she definitely is not a floppy wrist either.
As a teenager, she lived on a family owned commercial fishing boat in Alaska, long-lining (halibut and cod primarily), from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor and was raised on wild seafood / wild game meat here.
As such, she has developed some truly amazing recipes for moose, caribou, blacktail deer, grouse, waterfowl, snowshoe hare, etc., etc., not to mention salmon, halibut, rockfish, trout, oysters, clams and so forth.
To watch her filet a salmon is amazing, (if not scary LoL), to put it mildly.
Likewise, she knows her way around a meat grinder, and vacuum sealer, more so than most of us men folk.
So, she is by the grace of God, my soul mate for sure.
Likewise, she is the best traveling companion I could have ever have hoped for.
Anywhooo, in the event that, any of you folks are interested in joining us this year, up at Khomas Highland Hunting Safaris of Namibia, we will skid sideways into Windhoek on the morning of Sept 21 and then fly out of Windhoek, on the evening of Oct 5.
For my fellow Rifle Grumps, I plan to use my employer’s (Philip Hennings) scoped Brno 602 Magnum Mauser, for everything - eland to steinbok.
I dunno what ammunition Philip will have in supply, during these Covid / Socialist troubled times.
Last time (2017) I enjoyed perfect success with South African PMP ammunition, 300 grain round nosed softs.
I will keep you posted on this detail.
As a side note, my personal favorite hunting rifle here at home, is also a Brno 602 Magnum Mauser, in .375 H&H, identical in every way except that, mine has a simple 4x Zeiss scope on it and Philip’s rifle has a variable power scope (also a Zeiss) on it.
As we speak, I am in training with my Brno .375 for this Safari.
Standing, with shooting sticks....practice, practice, practice and then practice some more.
Likewise, I plan to do a bit of waterfowling with Philip as well, (Egyptian goose and red billed duck) with one of his shotguns.
Particularly, his Miroku over/under 12 bore (2 & 3/4”), fits me well (2.5” drop at the heel).
And, with (3MM ?) lead shot is a death-bomb on large, thick feathered game birds.
For me, the above has been a muey effectivo goose crumpler, not to mention a proverbial lightening bolt on guinea fowl as well.
Speaking of guinea fowl, those birds have obviously discovered Kevlar.
If I lived in Namibia or, anywhere else that guinea fowl abounded then, a scoped .22 rim fore magnum or better yet, a .22 Hornet would be a must have, IMO.
I guess that’s about the news that’s fit to print around here from Anchorage.
So, stay on that front sight and best regards for now.
Blah, blah, blah, out,
Velo Dog.
Stop the presses ! .... This just in on the wire;
At long last, old Velo Dog once again is booked for Namibia = September 5 through October 5, this year / 2021.
My outstanding wife will be going with me this time.
It will be her 2nd time to Africa and my 6th.
Also, we plan to spend a few days touring Germany afterward, before finally flying home to Anchorage.
My Mother-in-Law will be living in our house and taking care of our hideous mongrel, until our triumphant return back here to Ruby Ridge Compound.
On this topic, my wife is not a hunter per se.
However, she definitely is not a floppy wrist either.
As a teenager, she lived on a family owned commercial fishing boat in Alaska, long-lining (halibut and cod primarily), from Kodiak to Dutch Harbor and was raised on wild seafood / wild game meat here.
As such, she has developed some truly amazing recipes for moose, caribou, blacktail deer, grouse, waterfowl, snowshoe hare, etc., etc., not to mention salmon, halibut, rockfish, trout, oysters, clams and so forth.
To watch her filet a salmon is amazing, (if not scary LoL), to put it mildly.
Likewise, she knows her way around a meat grinder, and vacuum sealer, more so than most of us men folk.
So, she is by the grace of God, my soul mate for sure.
Likewise, she is the best traveling companion I could have ever have hoped for.
Anywhooo, in the event that, any of you folks are interested in joining us this year, up at Khomas Highland Hunting Safaris of Namibia, we will skid sideways into Windhoek on the morning of Sept 21 and then fly out of Windhoek, on the evening of Oct 5.
For my fellow Rifle Grumps, I plan to use my employer’s (Philip Hennings) scoped Brno 602 Magnum Mauser, for everything - eland to steinbok.
I dunno what ammunition Philip will have in supply, during these Covid / Socialist troubled times.
Last time (2017) I enjoyed perfect success with South African PMP ammunition, 300 grain round nosed softs.
I will keep you posted on this detail.
As a side note, my personal favorite hunting rifle here at home, is also a Brno 602 Magnum Mauser, in .375 H&H, identical in every way except that, mine has a simple 4x Zeiss scope on it and Philip’s rifle has a variable power scope (also a Zeiss) on it.
As we speak, I am in training with my Brno .375 for this Safari.
Standing, with shooting sticks....practice, practice, practice and then practice some more.
Likewise, I plan to do a bit of waterfowling with Philip as well, (Egyptian goose and red billed duck) with one of his shotguns.
Particularly, his Miroku over/under 12 bore (2 & 3/4”), fits me well (2.5” drop at the heel).
And, with (3MM ?) lead shot is a death-bomb on large, thick feathered game birds.
For me, the above has been a muey effectivo goose crumpler, not to mention a proverbial lightening bolt on guinea fowl as well.
Speaking of guinea fowl, those birds have obviously discovered Kevlar.
If I lived in Namibia or, anywhere else that guinea fowl abounded then, a scoped .22 rim fore magnum or better yet, a .22 Hornet would be a must have, IMO.
I guess that’s about the news that’s fit to print around here from Anchorage.
So, stay on that front sight and best regards for now.
Blah, blah, blah, out,
Velo Dog.
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go in Germany ?
