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NITECORE MH12SE - INITIAL REVIEW LED technology advances every year, and I decided that it was time to upgrade my EDC for the last 7-8 years, a Fenix UC40UE. This has been an exceptional light, totally reliable, and I just love it - but today you can get more light, more throw, and more runtime...

Great report, well written!

Interesting... I'll get a couple of laser pointers in red and green, and try that out with different animals. Maybe I could get a lion to chase a dot like a house cat? :giggle:

Michael, thanks a lot, that's exactly what I wanted to know! I gave some thought on how to set up a laser on my rifle: I have a piece of picatinny rail under the barrel, but that's for my light. A light/laser combo would add complication and reduce battery life. A possibility would be to add...

Has anyone tried a laser on a DG rifle for close-up work? Seeing that most professionals in SF/LE who see close-quarter action do have lasers installed, and seem to quite like the setup for the advantages it gives in quick, close, confused situations, it would make sense that the same...

As a working rifle, a .460 has so many drawbacks that it's a hard sell to most everyone who does the sums. When you carry your rifle from morning to night in the bush, and need to be split-second fast and accurate with it, there are a few points to consider. It's heavy. It's long. It's...

Selling my Heym 88B Safari in 450/400. Factory-installed peep sight on claw mounts, rifle stocked accordingly. Nice, well-balanced rifle. Just been refreshed and checked by Nate Heineke, gunmaker in Laramie. New leather-covered recoil pad. Pictures below were taken before the new pad. Rifle is...

The plastic round nose is just for feeding. Woodleigh does the same with the Hydro, which by the way has a similar "dish" in the nose, although it does not deform like this one does. The reduction in diameter is insignificant in terms of energy transfer, what really matters is the nose shape...

That's one of the reasons I prefer carrying a 9.3 for ordinary duties... :D

NECG are selling Recknagel sights and parts made in Germany... And if you look at the whole Recknagel catalogue, you'll realise that there is a LOT of good stuff in there. http://www.recknagel.de/Joomla/ Unfortunately you can't get that good stuff, because NECG is not importing it, and...

With all the advantages that a sling can have for a hunter, when it comes to DG hunting in Africa there is a quiet consensus: the vast majority of professionals do not use a sling. Out of the two dozens or so that I'm personally acquainted with, old, mature, and younger, not a single one uses...

I find slings to be an annoyance on the rifle as far as carry is concerned, I hate them dangling around and they seem to always be in the way at the wrong time. I'm used to carry my rifles without a sling. On the other hand, a properly set sling is a terrific help in steadying the rifle for an...

:p Yep......

A 550 stock will work. There are slight differences between the 550 and 602 inletting, due to the different trigger and safety, but these differences mean that there is more wood removed from the 550 stock, so the 602 will fit in. I fitted a 602 stock to a 550, all it took was some chiselling...

You're welcome... A delightful rifle, I must say. Trim, light, handy, and knocks down buffalo as well as a .375, from all I have seen.

Both A-frame and Barnes TSX are top-quality, reliable performers on buffalo. I personally do not use RWS ammo in .375 H&H, as it gives me extraction problems when it is hot.

Albert, this is a picture of a similar one, if that can help...

The fact is, the Blaser R93 systems exhibits a failure mode in which the locking system, when compromised in a particular way, UNLOCKS and sends the bolt back in the shooter's face. It is NOT a case of failure due to excessive chamber pressure. This is a design flaw. Blaser always asserts...

Ahem... There are some 46 countries that are not South Africa, on the continent... :A Shades:

No auctions that I'm aware of... So many good rifles have been destroyed for "security reasons" that one can just shake his head in sad disbelief.

There were hundreds of .404 in all nooks and crannies of the East African bush, because several Game Departments were issuing them. Lots of these are slowly gathering dust and rust in the backrooms of Police stations and Game Departments. A good number of them are still in the hands of poachers...

Selling my Heym 88B, Safari grade, in 450/400. 24" barrels, claw mounts (bases on rifle, mounts for Swarovski Rail), peep sight, scroll engravings, gold fillet. Good and dependable rifle, I used it as back-up gun for a few seasons in Karamoja. Very comfortable to shoot, well balanced. Excellent...

A 10 mph breeze at 90 degrees from the trajectory would give you approximately 2.5" to 3" drift at 200 m.

Guess that pretty much rules out you voting for Hillary, does it? :D :D :D

Velo, I meant that as soon as you criticize a Blaser or a Glock - for whatever reason - the aficionados react viscerally, and you can't hold a reasoned discussion... It's a bit like trying to make sense in a discussion about religion. Fully agreed, Glocks don't send the slide flying back into...

It's a bit like when one says that he doesn't like Glocks... :D

I stumbled on the thread below while looking for something else. The same gun, in 2010, with an OP reporting: "I received this as an email from a co-worker. I don't know any details other than what is below but I thought you guys might find this interesting. A guy came into our department the...

My CZ has a 20" barrel, and the loads I'm using are chrono'ed at 2160. These are 450gr CEB#13, not pushed to the max. Things hit with that do not come back complaining...

No need of photoshopping (and the car's shadow is there in the grass), it happens often in the National Parks: lions are used to see cars and tourists, and usually don't give a dead rat about them. There are probably more lions than that one, the tourists had their fill watching them and taking...

BTW, yes, these peeps are high and necessitate a higher front sight. But they are excellent, and hammer-proof...

NECG (Recknagel) front sights for the CZ are slightly oversize, so they can be fitted tightly on rifles made over the years. It takes only a few minutes to fit them to your rifle: just take a medium grit stone, or a 240-320 wet-and-dry sandpaper, put them on a flat surface, and sand away a...

Bernard, the short barrel shines in long stuff and when you monkey around on all four or your belly. Plus, the lightened rifle makes a difference after a few hours (it's 8.5 lbs empty), and the whole thing just feels right. The barrel was shortened by a gunmaker friend of mine in the US, but...

My .458 Lott (CZ 550) has a 20" barrel, shortened forend, and hollowed-out butt in order to get the balance right. It's a pleasure to handle and to carry, and I wouldn't want that long barrel back if you paid me for it. I get 2160 with handloaded ammo, have not yet chronoed any factory ammo...

Since the post has been open for three weeks without a taker, I'll jump in... I do not have experience with harcast bullets in the field on DG, and I guess very few PHs have any (hence the limited number of responses so far!). But what I know of hardcast bullets is that as long as the...

"Chinese ammo", but they don't care to show the headstamp? I'd like to see that, and more details, before to draw conclusions... I could be mistaken, but it looks more like a reloading accident, and original pictures hijacked from the Net and re-circulated with a meaningless caption.

That's from Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, page 5. Can't edit the post to insert the reference, don't know why.

"In hunting elephant, as in other things, what will suit one man may not suit another. Every hunter has different methods and uses different rifles. Some believe in the big bores, holding that the bigger the bore therefore the greater the shock. Others hold that the difference between the shock...

Which edition? This one? :p

If you feel that you've got big balls after firing it, don't be mistaken: these are only your tonsils that fell in your sac... :D

Interestingly, in Karamoja the elders still remember him. Their history is recorded in songs, and they can still tell you about the great rinderpest that killed most of the cattle in the 19th century, or what was the price of ivory and slaves in 1890. In Southern Karamoja, they used to call...

Is the action inletted/bedded properly? I had a 550 where the action was so poorly bedded at the factory (American stock, not Czech) that the tang was a couple of millimeters away from the stock when the screws under the lugs were pulled.

A Blaser straight pull is faster to reload, and you can have several calibers with one rifle. Throw it at the back of a pickup, put some sand and mud in it, let it rust ever so slightly inside the action, and you'll call Mama Mauser very quick... Open the action, look at these flimsy rails...

What pin did you break? The R8 design does not have the same inherent flaw as the R93: once the "fingers" are locked, there is a steel sleeve below them that prevents them from retracting. The only way I can see for the R8 bolt to blow back, besides a catastrophic failure of the locking recess...

All the snakes I ever met in over twenty years in Africa just wanted to be left alone. There was a time when we got spitting cobras every other week in my garden in Abuja, Nigeria. In the end I told my guys to leave them alone, because they never ever wanted a fight, they always tried to leave...

I'm just from a hunt where I had the opportunity to extensively try the Swaro and the Leica. My take, not based on software or lab tests: the Swaro come on top. Eye cups on the Leica feel "flimsy", with a couple of odd stops on the way out or in. The whole hardware feels more solid on the Swaro...

Linen. Cotton as second choice, but linen beats it in terms of breathability and comfort.

When chasing problem hippos, one often finds himself walking the countryside at night, because that's when the culprits come out of the water - and if you are after a particular bull who misbehaved on land, that's pretty much the surest way you're going to get him. For long, my "hippo rig"...

The design is interesting, and applies a number of things that have been researched and worked on by several small/medium scale premium bullet manufacturers in recent years, and by the folks mentioned above by PaulT. A question, though: why no driving bands? These seem to have an unquestionable...