Recent content by Biggdawg

thanks for the compliments. I absolutely loved hunting the baboons. I would love to go back and just hunt them, along with a cull hunt. You really got to stretch out the shots. So i say they are great for honing your long range shooting skills.

my 300 wm with 200gn barnes lrx was devastating on the game you have listed so i would say the 300 with a barnes. as others have said no go on semi auto

I just got back from africa flying the same flights as you are going to. on the way back they asked us if we had any explosives packed, the african that was helping us said no, i gave him a funny look, they took the bags and checked them in. after wards i asked him what was up he said they...

looks to be a lot less grass then. Is that Larry S. with you? will tell Tom and Linda hi when i see him -- he will be building me another rifle here shortly.

here is the one bullet recovered from the gemsbok i shot at 250 or so yards frontal. the barnes 200lrx performed flawlessly the whole trip. i was pushing thes at 2948 at 1000 feet so at 4000 ft they were in the 2980 range. retained weight of the bullet was 199.9 grains out of 200 sounds perfect...

here is my 21" from a week ago taken at http://www.kalaharihuntingsafaris.net/

thanks guys. yes i am very proud/ happy with my kudu just what i was hoping for 54 or better. Now I have to figure out how i want to do my mount, thinking of combining the impala,gemsbok and kudu on one pedestal just trying to find examples. i know i have seen them.

Day 13 Today was a beautiful day slightly windy but temps were up in the 70's. We went out after some cull blue wildebeest and they were a mighty challenge. Must have followed them for over 5 miles before they presented a shot then they took off again. This continues for over an hour but I...

Day 12 Today started out a bit warmer than yesterday with no wind. We were in search of my steenbok, saw 30 or so on the way up to the main hunting grounds but no shooters. It took us a while to find some game today. We got on some springbok and Tom took a shot and missed -- he is really pissed...

Day 11 Brrrrrrr that is all I can say. This morning it is around 30 deg F. I bundled up in a t shirt, long sleeve shirt, sweat shirt, my coat, stocking cap and gloves and it was barely enuff. The weather here has surprised me I should have brought some warmer cloths. We head out to the main...

Day 10 We got a late start today which was nice, left the ranch around 930-10 and it had already warmed up enuff I only needed my coat, no wind to speak of. saw a lot of different animals on the way up to the hunting grounds. We started out going off road in search of gemsbok. We saw a few...

Day 9 Chilly again today. After another great breakfast we packed up the land rover and headed out. Today it is very windy 10-20 mph and it caused problem getting the game, the animals were very spooky. We were seeing a lot of springbok and gemsbok but couldn't get close than 4-500 yards and...

Day 5 was a travel day from the mountains to the kalahari desert area about 350 miles or so. Day 6 First day in the Kalahari at johan's We got a late start again today, got up at 715. We were beat from the very long drive from Joan's in the Khomas Hochland Mountains yesterday. Mabel cooked us...

Day 4 We slept in today everyone is getting a bit worn out so we are leaving at 8 am. Truck is packed up and we head out. Not seeing much game we are headed to the back side of the property to find my last trophy up here in the kohmas hochland mountains. Down the road a ways we spot a very...

here are the first couple of days: Day 2 the day started off seeing a lone burchell zebra at 300 I passed on it because I want the Hartman more. another 10 minutes down the road we see a nice herd of burchell zebra at 280 I still passed on them it is only day 2 and I am holding out for a...