Recent content by BryceM

Wow. What a difference locations makes. Out west there’s plenty of wide open BLM and forest service land. Within 20 minutes of my house there’s at least 6 spots I can shoot out to 1000 yards. No other human in sight. I don’t even know of a gun range except for one little 50 yard setup for...

I’m a skeptic when it comes to this. Most game animals have a sense of smell that is orders of magnitude ahead of ours. I suspect that they can smell people with or without detergent perfumes, so called sent-blockers, shower or no shower. Maybe all of these efforts make a small difference...

I have both and I've killed a ton of deer and pronghorn with both. If you expect long range, the .257 Wby has a slight edge, but the .25-06 is a wonderful round. As has been said, it might be easier to chamber for .25-06 given the bolt, magazine, and action.

Chukar & Hungarian Partridge.

You planning on eating that? It’s a pretty good anti-armor round, I doubt it would expand well. If you’re just going for density, tungsten or bismuth would be great……. But they have other problems like barrel life, machinability, or brittleness. One possibility is that the materials we...

Scammers for specialized products like big bore rifles can’t stand up to 30 seconds of scrutiny on the phone. It’s a reasonable ask.

Markets don’t like uncertainty. Airlines don’t buy fuel on the daily, but from futures contracts. If there’s any uncertainty, they crank up the fees to provide margin if things go bad. Besides, a small drop in supply can equate to a huge rise in price. The supply-demand curve for oil can be...

Great caliber. Accubond is fine. I prefer the TSX or TTSX. Something around 180 grains is perfect. All of that said, I've probably killed the majority of my African critters with Sierra Game Kings. It's what the PH has, and I've borrowed a rifle for most of my hunts. They're not my...

A sharp blow to the central nervous system (either brain or spinal cord) immediately incapacitates an animal. This doesn't need to be a direct hit to the cord or brain either. If you want to call the impact "hydrostatic shock" that's probably reasonable. While it's "knocked out" it often...

Last time I went to Africa, I booked with a European airline. It was about $1000 cheaper. Oil is up, and fuel prices drive airfare (or are used as an excuse to raise rates).

For a first hunt, it would be hard to beat a spot-and-stalk, low-fence (or no-fence) plains game hunt in Namibia. There are plenty of places to do this, and you can still take an incredible quantity of game. Mountain zebra, kudu, springbok, red hartebeest, warthog, and gemsbok could be the...

Swaros. Cry once, then get decades of use out of them.

All the money is tied up right now with the Boomers. When they age out, housing inventories will surge, their money will be dispersed, and you'll see some younger folks enjoying things like hunting camps again.

I’ve been to Africa 8 times. 7 times with the PH we started with, and he also accompanied me on the other trip to the Caprivi. They’re such great guys and we had so much fun, I’ve never felt a reason to try anything else. With the PH, I’ve hunted 8 different places in Namibia. Each trip has...

My first was an ancient blesbok. He was just over 200 yards away, and I made a perfect quartering shot on him from a bipod. It’s one of the few times I had a perfect setup for a bipod in Africa.