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    Big Elephant Reportedly Taken in Tanzania

    Part of the problem is “who is telling the story?” Unless someone puts money on the table to tell a full story as you have a via a medium that is accessible, is approachable, and above all, tells a story about people and a landscape, those fighting against us will ALWAYS be the ones to tell the...
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    Parker Brothers Shotgun

    Maybe steve Bertram? He's also in CO.
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    Big Elephant Reportedly Taken in Tanzania

    I think down there it’s just the frequent presence of people/cars etc. places like the sheldrick wildlife trust do hand feed/raise elephant but reintegrating them into the wild is very tricky once dependent. My understanding of Amboseli/Tsavo etc now is it’s simply a well-patrolled space that...
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    Big Elephant Reportedly Taken in Tanzania

    Amboseli Trust indicates the Bull was Gilgil, a 35 year old bull known to be of the Amboseli group. The picture they showed did not look anywhere near 100 lb to me. I did a Google search trying to find a picture/mention of the Bull earlier than 2023 and could not find anything. I don’t know...
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    Leupold M8 2.5X Compact

    Very good scopes. I have one along with two other FX-II 2.5s.
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    Big Elephant Reportedly Taken in Tanzania

    I believe it can also be done to prevent the remnant meat from being poisoned to kill predators, scavengers. Poisoned meat is one of the reasons there are so few vultures in Kenya.
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    Big Elephant Reportedly Taken in Tanzania

    This is the third elephant in that area that was killed. The supposition is that they came from the Amboseli group in Kenya but I have yet to see any evidence of it. Michael Matheakis issued a letter after the first two. Wasn’t all that great. You can find that on the THOA website. I find it...
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    Imagine Importing Your Own Truck to Africa

    Pretty interesting stuff - I will look into these guys. Back in the 30s, Woody Donohue imported a boat for Bud Cottar to sail Lake Victoria/
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    Kenya Safari 1927

    Very cool pics and story. 1927... I would imagine he hunted with one of the Cottars or ..gasp...Bill Judd or Alan Black?
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    Defiance Machine CRF action

    This is really interesting as i have heard form someone else the difficulty in getting mauser/model 70 extractors made. They are not easy for sure, but you'd think by now the process could be simplified wirth CNCs, multi-axis, etc. MAkes the fact they made them by the millions in the past kind...
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    Winchester model 70 Safari Express

    Call Duane Wiebe and see if he has any of his XRM mag boxes left. They were slightly trapezoidal and designed to allow more rounds down.
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    Alec Baldwin Movie Set Accident

    Yes. conservative-minded people are bothered by hypocrisy more often than not. When a liberal puke kills someone with a gun that, in other realms thinks should be banned- hypocrisy ensues. This is basic human behaviour stuff.
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    found on gun broker Winchester Model 70 375 H&H

    Agree - that is some bad stamping. Then again I have a 6-digit Model 70 338 stainless that must have been a friday/payday/beer thirty rifle for all its cosmetic faults, but it is THE best shooting rifle I have owned. I just leave it alone. I would have this one corrected though...fugly...
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    Midway USA

    I had this happen with a different place where I made an order, but my card threw a flag so the order didn’t go through. When I talked to the credit card company they saw multiple attempts to charge the same amount. They say it was just an automatic attempt on the vendors part and not “real”...
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    Rolex- the stupidest, lamest company

    I think the apple watch tops the accuracy game these days.
 
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