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I'll second that, same experience for me.

I've never hunted elephant for FWIW, a Texas heart shot as first.....seems risky to say the least.

Time to take a breather gents and realize how likely blessed you are that you're even on this great website. It likely means you've done well enough for yourself that you're either seriously considering a hunt in Africa or have been, perhaps multiple times. I'm tellin' ya gents, you'd benefit...

I'm not a Marine of any sort, but I do know what that means.

I believe you're giving Biden a pass on immigration he does not deserve. I think his problem now is he hasn't any ability to put together a complex thought and strategy. He is being controlled by those in the background and just being told to play along with what he's told. This is why his...

I've always wondered about the notion that the plastic tip helps initiate expansion in the TTSX. Plastic vs copper.....hmm?

I'm not drinking much these days and have always been more of a beer guy when I did. My preferred vice is for a good cigar. Well my local cigar bar, which also serves alcohol, had an event a few weeks ago with the folks from Balvenie. So since someone or two have mentioned Scotch, I thought...

Mat, Jacques @JKO HUNTING SAFARIS has guided numerous handgun hunters in the past. This included a couple of the t.v. hunting personalities. I was in camp when one of them was guided by Jacques. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding JKO Safaris.

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This year will be my 23rd year of the raging inferno that is Phoenix in the summer. We should do that lunch soon as I'm hoping this will be my last. I've grown tired of this place. Traffic is getting worse as the city grows. It won't be long before the southern suburbs of Phoenix intersect...

That doesn't exactly clarify it, but it was funny anyway!

Since you liked my previous post, I'll take that as a yes, it was the track just a few minutes from where I live.

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I'm quite late in posting this, but nonetheless welcome to AH!

As others have said, you did very well, congratulations! When I had a .416 Rigby, a CZ, and if you're a hand loader, H4831 was exceptional as a powder.

Firebird raceway near Phoenix?

Maybe @Saul...maybe, but I'm not even sure of that. Who else?

A local ATV/Motocross/Motorcycle dealer had an Indian event one weekend where you could sign up to test ride the new models as well as talk to their reps. I started a conversation with one of the reps, but only 5 seconds in he excused himself and said he'd be right back. 30 minutes later and I...

I'm sure it's like living in paradise in Ukraine right now.

For whatever reason I've not had luck with H4350 in any of the calibers I've tried it in. It is supposed to be quite close to IMR4350. The IMR version works very well in a .30-06, 7mm and my .375HH. Why the H4350 doesn't is likely just my rifles are finicky about it would be my guess. I say...

The problem with this is defining "who" deserves it.

Don't know what the power was like in the 06 models. But the new ones, it's pretty crazy. I have a touring bike and it's great. The wife and I actually use it to make longish road trips on the weekends with a few overnighters a year. It's perfect for that. But I miss having a smaller...

There are some fabulously twistie mountain roads here in Arizona that bike would be at home on. I’ll settle at 56 years old to ride them on my Harley. But I would love to add a Triumph Rocket 3 to the garage.

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I've always taken my own hand loaded ammo. If you research it a little more the idea is to have the ammo in a container meant to carry it so that isn't loose and sloshing around. I've carried my ammo in plastic MTM boxes and never had a problem.

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Not to pile on, but your proposal is not OK. Do NOT do this. I would suggest you follow this advice.

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I wasn't twisting anything, but perhaps it wasn't clear what your intent was in the previous post. If your intent was to warn us not to step outside when agents appear without a warrant, okay so be it. But I was taking your posting this about the pro-Palestine woman and what the FBI did as a...

Ok, I think we're basically saying the same thing basically. And in reality, I guess I can't remember if the bolt would catch that 2nd round or not. I guess what I remember was doing this that way to ensure it didn't happen. What you're saying makes sense, the bottom rounds should be a little...

Nothing wrong, the design is for three rounds fully in the magazine. It’s one of the criticisms often cited against the M70. You can get a fourth started enough however to make it a 3+1 without having to snap the extractor over the rim. Having said that my M70 manual says you can do that and...

I'll play devil's advocate here for a moment. If you were to make public threats against the POTUS, you would receive a visit from the gov't, this has been true for a long time. In the case of this pro-Palestine woman, they paid a visit with no warrant. Did they force themselves into her...

Regarding Labor Force Pariticipation Rate. It is currently running at about the same level as it was ten years ago at about 62.7%. 2014 rate was where it seemed to have bottomed after dropping from a high at roughly 67%. There was a spike downwards of course due to Covid in 2020 and then a...

I don't doubt your personal experiences. I think the whole situation is a cluster, but with lots of shades of grey between the black/white. Gov't handouts, inflation, cheap companies, companies struggling to hang on, poor worker attitude, etc all come into play.

The corn field part of that I don't doubt is true to an extent. I have farming family in western Iowa. A number of the farmers there have entered into agreements with the companies running windmills and you'll see them across the countryside. Now I don't have it first hand, but according to...

My company has had a lot of trouble filling positions at the lower end of the bracket in terms of pay. We simply cannot get people to work for us and those that apply have not impressed. On further inspection these jobs pay about the same or less than say Sonic, McDonalds, WalMart etc...

That is correct. The other figure that seems to be lightly discussed is the Labor Force Participation rate. If you choose not to be in the work force, that number drops. If you choose to be in the work force, the number increases. But if you don't have a job, then that increases...

Welcome to AH! I have plans to be back in southeastern Idaho in the not too distant future. I used to make it up that way occasionally to fish the Madison and also various streams in YNP. Not to mention Henry's Lake on the Idaho side.

I love my M70's. Have a few of them in the safe. One less now as my son actually took me seriously when I told him the M70 Featherweight I got in 7x57 a few years back was his. Little bugger who now lives in Texas asked me to bring it to him this past Christmas. I could've bought two of them...

I feel a BLR in .308W is calling for a place in my safe.

Let me take that back. I did shoot a mule deer doe many years ago where the bullet broke roughly in half on impact. The one half skittered down the onside rib cage and exited. There were two holes on the same side of the deer yet the terrain was open, it didn't hit anything until it hit the...

Only once that I know of. It was a 140gr Nosler Ballistic Tip. Quartering away shot at about 250 yards on the diminutive Coues deer here in Arizona. It traversed through from left somewhere in the ribs where it entered to just behind the right shoulder where the rest of the bullet was in one...

Welcome to AH! You are certainly prepared for Africa with the .375s.

Looking forward to the rest of the story. I will be hoping to trace your exact steps to City Lodge in late June on my way to Mozambique.

Well what can I say, I'm the guy at the party hanging out with the dog, a party killer. Again nothing against either of the calibers, they've both proven themselves. But I wouldn't head down the road of saying a .338-06 has what the .338 WM has either. And in reality the .35 Whelen is...

Fair enough. I took a look on Sierra's loading data website. The link below is for the .338WM and 225 gr bullet. It shows max loads for 3 powders at around 70gr and muzzle velocities above 2800fps, about 2850fps average. A fourth load listed is 78.3gr of RL-26 for 2933fps. Unfortunately...

And how do those loads compare to what they list for .338WM in the same powder? I don't have a Speer manual. Actually, specifically what are those loads, please provide the charge weights.

Well I was trying to maintain an apples to apples comparison. This information may be accurate, but it makes this an apples to oranges comparison. A couple of holes: 1. 70gr of CFE is not 20% less than the 74gr of RL-22 powder load I looked up for the .338WM. This was part of why the OP...

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