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Way back in 1975, I was a brand-new Second Lieutenant assigned to an artillery battalion at Wertheim am Main. It was a Germanic fairyland small town at the confluence of the Main and Tauber rivers in the foothills of the Spessart Mountains. In South Louisiana, where I grew up, I had hunted...

It was cloudy all morning and is again now, but for about an hour and a half before and thirty minutes following totality, the skies cleared just enough. Just awesome.

Fascinating article in the Texas Monthly about a warthog that had been raised and befriended on a Texas Hill Country ranch that decided to try his best to kill his owner. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/warthog-attack-texas-exotics/

One of the sad things about getting older is the passing of those icons who made important impressions on one's life. Melanie (Melanie Safka) was a force of nature as a song writer and vocalist. She performed at Woodstock in '69 and had two subsequent great hits - Lay Down (Candles in the...

I thought perhaps at least @IvW would be interested in seeing this gun. ;) I have owned a number of Darne shotguns over the decades and have retained two. One is a svelte little 28 bore that retains its European choking (read tight and tighter) that is perfect for swatting high flying white...

This hunt truly begins in the early spring of 1977. A small group of friends stationed in Northern Bavaria decided to take two-days leave in conjunction with a weekend and head off to Kitzbuhel, Austria for four days of skiing before a pending summer training deployment to Grafenwöhr. Sometime...

I thought this was too important an article (testament?) to bury in the politics section. In our trips to South Africa, many do not realize how adept our outfitters and PHs are at shielding us from the accelerating self-destruction of the country. I remember more than a decade ago flying into...

I knew Wyoming was having a rough winter at higher elevations, but had not realized the impact was this bad. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/29/dying-by-the-thousands-miles-of-death-as-wyoming-antelope-deer-and-elk-die-from-winter-starvation/

For those of you who may hunted Mozambique, and particularly Coutada 14, I received bad news today. Coutada 14 has been under the management of Tony Wicker for many years. It has some of the finest buffalo and plains game hunting found anywhere in the Delta. Tony's son Sebastian had assumed...

Not sure if many here ever subscribed to what I believe was a truly remarkable quarterly journal. Its focus was always classic double shotguns, double rifles, and best quality single shots. Ross Seyfried, who I believe knows more about golden era guns than anyone else alive, was a regular...

I continue trying to tell these guys that muzzle brakes are the spawn of Satan - particularly on heavier than .375 calibers. ;) Russian journalist discovering the abrupt joy of overpressure.

In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow...

I truly do love Spain. My guide, friend, and owner of Great Spanish Hunts, Ignacio Navasqües, was sitting on a boulder to one side of me while Carlos, the regional game keeper, sat on another. Mora, Ignacio’s young Bavarian blood hound, was busy chasing a lizard. All three of the two-legged...

One of the great by-products of hunting internationally, are the friendships one builds within the international hunting community. Some seventeen years ago, I took my son and brother-in-law to Argentina to hunt doves in Cordoba. My choice in outfitter was MG Hunting founded by Marcel Gil. A...

In August of this year, I had the privilege of hunting with Mike Taylor @spike.t on his lovely Takeri Game Reserve in Zambia. It was a special trip, and I filed a hunting report here on the site. I also put together an article for African Hunting Gazette which appears in this quarter's issue...

Interesting (and hilarious) view of Florida from a virtuous visitor from the north. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/01/23/a-canadian-covid-hysteric-goes-to-florida-and-absolute-hilarity-ensues-n511476

As we edged uphill through the sodden trees and cold fog below the cliff face, I was feeling all of my nearly seven decades and the six-thousand feet of altitude. I thought to myself that I really was getting a bit old for climbing around the Carinthian Alps looking for a small brown mountain...

I was not particularly happy with myself as I glanced quickly at the latest plate-sized splash of bright red blood marking the trail of a waterbuck that should have been lying dead half kilometer behind us. As I carefully moved a thorn laden branch out of the way, I agonized over the knowledge...

Like most who went to Africa for the first time, I was interested in the traditional antelope and completely puzzled by the apparent fascination some had for the tiniest. That, gradually changed as I began to encounter them over several years and hunts. The most challenging soon became the...

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https://www.westleyrichards.com/us/theexplora/exotic-westley-richards-falcon-trio-completed? Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Thani, for whom these guns were made, is the brother of the Emir of Qatar. He is responsible for investment recommendations to the Emir. Not entirely sure where these...

I had the privilege to hunt King Ranch over the last couple of days, and took an ancient and very large bull. If you look at the horns, he has started to shed the outer covering at both the base and tips. A year ago, he would likely have scored very high, but a year ago he would not have been...

Stanford University just released a peer reviewed study through the National Center for Biotechnical Information (NCBI) that is pretty definitive concerning the facemask lunacy. Apparently, posting a link to it is enough to get people suspended from several of the social media sites. The NCBI...

The internet is finally back up (as of an hour ago), we can take a shower (even if we still can't drink the water), the house is finally warm again, and the ice is just starting to melt. Two days ago, conditions were rather unpleasant. We hit 3 degrees outside and 48 degrees inside. For my...

So I was pounding away on the keyboard in our non-therapeutic "Politics" thread and decided that I seriously needed a single malt. Walking by the patio door, I decided to pick up the 5.56 on which I have Thor thermal optics mounted and see if there were any uninvited visitors in the pecans...

I am not a Leica spokesperson or silent partner in EuroOptic, but some of these deals are pretty good. I am, however, a real fan of Leica products. :cool...

I would love to say that I took this deer off of my place, but he came off a friends ranch between here and San Antonio. It is large enough, that every three-year-old doesn't get picked off, and I have taken a couple of nice bucks there over the years. We are having a warm, dry (darn near...

A couple of weeks ago I noticed an old thread from 2015 where one of our members, @Jody, was advertising African themed hardwood coasters that he makes. I shot him a note, and sure enough, he was happy to make me a couple of sets for the game room / bar. They are very cool and just the thing...

For a number of years, I owned a 1941 Chevy truck. It was all original which was cool but that meant it had a non-synchronized transmission and an engine with horsepower that barely reached three digits. I finally found someone eager to take over its stewardship about six-months ago, and had...

On another thread, we had a chance to look at one of Bailey's amazing double rifles built on his "rising block" design. Around two years ago, I had the opportunity to purchase one of his single shots from him that are based upon the same brilliant design. I had planned to post some photos of...

WooHoo! The Dem Doomsayers must be suicidal this morning. Economists were predicting terrible May numbers as high as 20% unemployment and the loss of an additional 8 million jobs. Instead ....... drumroll, trumpet fanfare ........ unemployment fell to 13.3% and the economy added 2.5 million...

His is not a name known to most African hunters, but he probably did more to set in place a system that is likely to preserve African hunting for a long time to come than anyone else. He championed the then radical idea of having local communities "own" the wildlife in their area. Rather than...

Thought many of you would find the news ab0ut the new Army and USMC sniper rifle of interest. No it is not a Blaser R8 :whistle: - but it is multi-caliber...

Part taken out from the thread: Euro vs shoulder: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/euro-vs-shoulder.55116/ on the request of the @Hank2211. This new thread was created by @AfricaHunting.com. The "spiral slam" and a buffalo on one hunt? Educate me on what is meant by the spiral slam. I...

Even through the fog of my jet-lagged gaze, I marveled just as I had some forty-five years ago at the picturesque cleanliness of the Austrian countryside. Rolling hills topped with dark woods were like islands in the small orderly fields that surrounded them. One postcard like medieval village...

In early July, my lovely bride and old friends from South Carolina left Houston for a week in Argentina for one of our hunting/tourist trips. I had hunted Argentina twice before, once with Marcelo Gil's great operation in Cordoba for doves, and was really looking forward to renewing...

A couple of months ago I purchased a used but essentially new William Douglas & Sons .470. It is a A&D boxlock ejector. I finally took it out back to my little range and set up a target at 70 meters. I used a set of sticks that offer forearm and stock support. Sight picture was bead full in...

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6074244037001/#sp=show-clips Not pretty.

Gents, Last may I had the opportunity to take a fabulous black bear in British Columbia with Kevan Bracewell's BC Trophy Mountain Outfitters. Kevan asked if I would be willing to write an article about the hunt for the "Mountain Hunter" quarterly. It just came out in publication to day...

For those with any interest, African Hunting Gazette just published my article "Up Close and Personal in the Limpopo" about my buffalo hunt in June with Phillip Bronkhorst Safaris.

One of the things that works really well for the lovely Mrs. Red leg and me are European trips where we spend 10-days or so playing tourist and then three or four days hunting. We had so much fun doing that in Spain two years ago, that we decided an encore was in order. We left for Madrid in...

The morning started like many buffalo hunts anywhere with the fresh tracks of a small herd crossing a dirt trace cut through the bush. Phillip Bronkhorst, Pieter Taylor (one of Phillip's PHs), our tracker Josias, Rickey (a young videographer in training), and your faithful correspondent bailed...

I was sitting in the bar/ trophy room reliving several hunts over a dram or two of 15-year 0ld something or another, and realized two of my prized trophies on the wall were photographs. I suspect other members of our clan have similar treasures. The first was taken in 2012 while hunting in...

GSXRMike posted a great thread about his Civil War era Springfield. Old rifles, muskets and blades are every bit as fascinating to me as the finest double rifle or latest set of optics. Let me preface all this by saying as a career combat arms officer and unapologetic proud Southerner, our...

Following my first hunt in Mozambique with my son, I published an article in African Hunting Gazette describing us taking a pair of bulls with Mashambanzou Safaris in Coutada 14 in the Zambezi Delta. Recently, the journal finished cataloguing the back issues on line. It was a fabulous...

A while back I posted a report on a fabulous Gredos Ibex hunt in which I participated October a year ago with Great Spanish Hunts (Link to report: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/spain-gredos-ibex-hunting-in-spain.32598/). Great hunt, incredible terrain, wonderful people, and a lovely ram...

The fellows at Rigby asked if I would mind sending them a report of my .275's maiden hunt here in Texas. It has been posted on their site, and I thought some of you might get a kick out of it. https://www.johnrigbyandco.com/texashillcountry/ As some of you may remember, I posted a brief...

In 2014, my son and I had a wonderful hunt for buffalo and plains game with Grant Taylor's Mashambanzou Safaris in the Zambezi Delta. In 2015, I signed a contract for a two-week return engagement for October of this year. I have just returned, and the hunt exceeded my every expectation. I...

Was just in communication with Gracy Travel. I am using them for my trip in October to Moz. They have requested that I get my 4457 notarized after obtaining it. Anyone else heard of this nonsense? I am trying to imagine one of the characters behind the desk in Johannesburg having the...

For the better part of four years I was aware that Rigby was going to follow their new big game rifle with a smaller stalking rifle using the Corbett .275 as a basis for the design. Lance Hendershot owner of Hendershot's Sporting Goods in Hagerstown, MD https://hendershots.net/ is a Rigby...