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    Free hunting classics on project gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg is a non profit making site which is making books available on line. They are all totally free. I am currently working through "In Africa" which follows a DG hunt in East Africa in 1910. Amongst other experiences the writer's safari meets up with a similarly engaged Teddy...
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    Mad Minute

    It will soon be 100 years since Sgt Snoxall set the record for the mad minute. Does anybody fancy trying to beat it? The rules are simple. You have a bolt action centre fire rifle. You start with the bolt forwards on an empty chamber in the "on guard" standing position. On the command you...
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    Reloading Slug

    Can 12 bore slug be successfully reloaded? If so does anybody have any comments to make? Can 12 bore slugs be cast at home or should I buy them ready made? Again any comments please.
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    Calibre for West African Bushpig

    Does anybody have any thoughts on a calibre for Bushpig? My heaviest mid range rifle is a .300 Winchester Magnum by Parker Hale. It certainly does any job I have ever asked of it but I was wondering if my .270 Sako would be equally useful. I think it handles a fraction of a second faster than...
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    I laughed at myself

    I do some work for an organisation via the internet. I have a number, password and PIN. Couldn't get the thing to work. I was sure I was putting in the correct number- 076200 but no go. Then I checked. It was actually 030800. Could only happen to a shooter.
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    The old Soviet era 14.5mm

    I was just browsing through this subject when I thought, for no obvious reason, about my old adversary the 14.5mm. It was the soviet bloc VHMG round. Does anybody have any experience of it? I ask only out of idle curiosity. I don't think I shall be having a double made in 14.5 although if you...
 
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