Recent content by BryceM

I’m OK with a few elephants dying of old age. It’s better than in areas of gross mismanagement where they destroy the habitat and they all starve to death.

I hope you never recover.

If I had to make do with a single rifle for PG and North America, the .300 Win always gets my vote. The .300 Wby is pretty good too. I’d want a match barrel, reasonably heavy 24” barrel, threaded for a suppressor, preferably a TB Ultra 5. A Mauser style action would be my preference, but...

First, it was a different time. There’s a lot of modern judgement passed against people who are long gone and in no position to defend what they did and what they wrote. Unfortunately it still isn’t so unusual to see relative hunting novices on safari. Most of them do their best and have a...

Look, if it really bugs you that much, just buy it and ship it to me. I'll treat it well, feed it, take care of it, pamper it, and even use it.

I'm a low-grade foodie wannabe and the best steak I've ever had was wildebeest tenderloin or backstrap cooked over a fire. I'm not kidding. I prefer it to any place I've ever been. I've had amazing steak in ma-n-pa restaurants and so-so steak in expensive joints. Usually you get what you pay...

I love that I started hunting Africa while the great Selby was still alive. With the bridge to Percival, his career takes one back to the earliest days of the "modern" African safari. Ruark and Selby are probably the reason I favor the .416 Rigby.

2 or 3 MOA from the sticks is plenty good. Stop worrying about that. Now, figure out how to acquire targets quickly, make a good first shot in stressful situations, work the bolt decisively, and get in a quick but effective follow-up shot. That's way more important than improving group sizes...

I've spent maybe 4 months total in the bush in Africa. During that time I've personally seen 2 puff adders and 2 cape cobras. All of them were trying to get away. Another hunter in our party once saw 2 puff adders in the same trip and the PH had to jump away from one of them. Snakes can...

Did Lasik back in 2001. Was 90% awesome. 10% trouble - mostly temporary. Dry itchy eyes was a problem for a couple years. Bright light is a bit of a problem. Sunglasses fix it. Now I need readers for hand surgery, tying knots fishing, and that sort of thing. I don’t need them to read a...

The change in western US hunting opportunity in the last 20 years is almost unbelievable. 18 years ago, 4 of us applied to hunt a better-than-average pronghorn unit in SW Wyoming. We drew, and we weren’t terribly surprised. Odds were better than even, before the pp system started. Now, it...

No pics, sorry, but my vote would be a natural closed-mouth pose.

Do you truly want an answer or are you just being a troll?

Recoil, and lots of it. They might have a place. Dispatching whales. Truly stopping elephants. Scratching an itch to shoot the biggest and badest. Beyond that, I think their usefulness is pretty limited. As useful tools, probably a small percentage of people can effectively wield them...