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Alaska's summer lasy year wasn't all that great for me, I was up to my eyeballs in OT and weather was just kinda crummy. So a couple months ago I decided I needed a little time in the sun in January. It turns out Alaska Air has cheap fares to Fort Lauderdale in January, so I started planning...

Dropped into the Dundee Michigan Cabela's while visiting. CCI Large Rifle primers are going for $99/1000 brick. Also had small rifle and pistol. No magnum that I saw, nothing much in brass except some 308 and a couple smaller magnums and such.

Someone left these in my indoor archery club range for us to have a little fun. I'd never seen these before in the usual retail websites like Lancaster and I figured I'd pass this along for those here who might find them useful for practice. At first I thought they were out of print with a...

My trophies (1 buffalo and six antelope) have been in a box at the shipper since the 1st of December. My shipper, AHG, was having difficulties getting it to me since Delta Air Cargo won't touch the box with a buffalo in it after the whole Cecil debacle. My first suggestion was do what had to be...

This hunt was originally planned for March-April 2020, then postponed u to September-October 2020 for all the reasons we all know. So when travel finally opened this winter I figured out what hoops I had to hop through and took the plunge one more time. First things first- Travel days. With...

My hunt in August/September of '18 with @KMG Safaris was originally to be completed around a year later by Relive Taxidermy in Port Elizabeth. Paul got a bit backed up and it completed in March this year. Then all shipping got shut down for well known reasons. Now typically shipping to me in...

While keeping up my skills on my local outdoor range, figured I'd get a thread going.

Hello all, I'm attempting to rebook flights that got postponed in March/April to a hunt in South Africa this fall. I have to rebook by June, so looking now. Going over is no problems, going via Frankfurt. But right now the the reservation has me coming back via Zurich, Switzerland. Is there...

I've often thought one of the things that catches my eye on a nyala is it's light forelegs. So I thought that if I ever hunted one I'd try and show it off. Then A few years ago I happened across a used book called 'A Breath from the Veldt' by John Guille Milais. Interesting story and history...

Interested in any first hand reviews of Safari Taxidermy out of Polokwane RSA. Making plans now, thinking mostly skull mounts plus possibly a single wall pedestal. Thanks.

Happened across this while browsing today, throwing it out there in case someone is looking for such a double.

So, how is everyone doing on their native soil this year? Feel free to post it here. I'll keep mine short and sweet. Four days on a bluff I call my 200-foot tree stand looking for moose below yielded no legal moose (it has to be either a spike/fork or 50"+ bull), though two in the illegal...

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-eliminating-african-swine-fever/ Every now and again someone grumbles how they had their boots washed by Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists, or mockingly joke how they managed to evade such cleaning. Somehow the whole thing is trivial...

The folks out in Togiak have some time on their hands before summer so every year they get creative on April 1.

I was recently chatting with a friend who mentioned he's heading to South Africa this May. Aside from the usual conversation about it he asked about getting his 4457 for his rifle and then mentioned he's stopping off for a week in Portugal on the way back. So he's thinking of having it shipped...

Moose can be dangerous game too, from a 1923 paper.

It's been two years in the making, but it finally happened. In the beginning it started as a multi-species hunting trip with nyala as my main focus. Then it expanded to hunting and fishing , then I decided I needed to tour a bit after the hint to see the Cape of South Africa. The original final...

Hello all, I'm starting to look into things for a hunt next summer near Port Elizabeth. I'm also doing a little touring on the Garden Route post hunt, ending in Cape Town. Originally that meant flying to Jo-berg from there etc. etc. But, since I live in Alaska and Condor goes straight into...

There's plenty written about the best knife for a safari. Big one or little ones, sheath or folder, and of course variations of multi-tools. So what do we need at the end of the day? Personally I need a chunk of biltong and a beer to wash it down while sittng around the table or fire. Thus I...

I happened across this today and thought it might interest some members. http://www.cabelas.com/product/ruger-reg-no-1-centerfire-rifle/2288589.uts?destination=/category/Single-Shot-Centerfire-Rifles/105525180.uts

A friend recently showed me this and I figured some might be interested around here. I'm not pitching them in anyway since my quiver is full of a couple other well proven broadheads but they look like a pretty tough 2-blade single bevel broadhead. Reasonably priced to boot...

While Barnes have worked very well for me in the past few years I happen to notice a Peregrine bullet ad and then see them in a sporting goods store in Namibia recently. The BushMasters all copper flat metplat expansion tip intrigues me. So out of curiousity has anyone used them in in an...

Well, I'd love to have a report of a succesfully hunted eland including a report on broadhead performance but things didn't work out that way. We hunted the first 4 1/2 days for springbok and black wildebeest with one great shot at a nice springbok on day two that went all wrong when the arrow...

Curiosity killed the cat. So I've been looking at mechanicals, and as we all know they vary a lot. Probably more than standard heads. My draw to them isn't the usual better flight, honestly most heads shoot well in my opinion, it was greater wound channel. But it had to penetrate ebough for at...

To add to the previous post I decided to take up the suggestion of some and, some heavier weight arrows and see if that made a significant difference in penetration. I got a hold of two Easton Axis FMJ Dangerous Game 300 spine arrows with the brass inserts. Fully assembled with the 125 grain...

In preparation for an upcoming Namibia hunt that will include eland I decided to see what broadhead gave the best penetration. My set up has plenty of oomph shooting a 500.5 grain Easton Axis FMJ 340 at 267 fps but eland are no small animal and I like both an entrance and exit with multiple...

I have set up a trip to Namibia this May. I will be flying straight into Windhoek via Frankfurt. At first I was just taking 2 rifles in one case and another piece of checked luggage for clothes, etc. and ammunition. But the idea of one or two species with a bow is a possibility if everything is...