Recent content by BryceM

One of each. A CZ .550 in 416 Rigby and an old Browning Safari .375.

Plains game...... This is hard to answer. They're all different, and every single species can be enjoyable. I've been there 6 times now. 5 PG hunts and 1 DG hunt. The PG hunts I enjoyed the most were mountain zebra and eland. The zebra hunt was done on horseback, up in the mountains. Neat...

In Africa, it's a poisonous nasty SOB until proven otherwise. Kinda sorta looks like a mamba to me, but I'm no expert. I've had one levitation experience in Namibia where a cape cobra raised up, hood flared, hissing at me from 2 feet away. I had another encounter where a snake and lizard were...

I've put maybe a hundred rounds of .416 Rigby down the tube during the last couple of years. The last two went into a cape buffalo and a bull elephant. 400gr bullets just a smidge over 2400 fps. My shooting has been done in a CZ 550. Learning how to shoot it helps. It's not bad at all over...

Sounds like you had a blast. Congrats! I did a NM pronghorn hunt a couple of weeks ago myself. I've been blessed with a few draw tags in Idaho and Wyoming over the years. This was speed goat #8 for me. It's a tremendously fun hunt and hunter success rates are usually pretty good if there...

Goodness, better exclude birds and rodents..... Mule deer, pronghorn, moose, elk, duiker, steenbok, springbok, blesbok, gemsbok, black wildebeest, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, baboon, Hartman zebra, Burchell's zebra, eland, giraffe, cape buffalo, elephant, impala...

Take a rifle. It isn't that big of a PITA. Especially for an animal where you might get a single good opportunity in weeks of hunting. I would use something that I absolutely TRUST, points well, feeds well, is absolutely true once sighted in, and could dispatch a leopard in a nasty spot...

+1 for the Barnes TSX, Barnes Solids, and Swift A-frames. I've used: TTSX in .300 Wby/.300 Win for eland, moose, elk, gemsbok, steenbok, duiker, warthog, wildebeest, etc. TSX in .416 Rigby for cape buffalo Barnes solids in .416 Rigby for elephant Swift A-frame in .375 H&H for giraffe and...

I suppose more has been written about cleaning bores than about any other rifle topic. If you care, the acquisition of a borescope will change the way you think about this. Some rifles foul more quickly than others. Much depends on what bullets you're using. Not everyone is trying to treat...

Wow. Best of luck to him and his family. Sounds like the outcome could have been much worse.

Ha. Fantastic! How's the recoil? Pretty tame I'd imagine.

Yeah, sorry to you poor souls living in the wrong states. Regulating suppressors is so idiotic in my mind that the thought of not being able to own one is so ridiculous I often forget about it. I'd love to fly to overseas with them, but the though of getting re-routed through New York, New...

I kind of see all the viewpoints. I have classic rifles that I don't want to mess up by threading the barrels. I also have severe hearing loss in my left ear that happened in a single episode of shooting over the open bed of a pickup when I was 16. It's made it difficult to follow...

Not a bang-flop, but my first buffalo in the Caprivi this June took one 400 gr TSX from a .416 Rigby at 25 yards. He was quartering towards and I hit him square in the shoulder, clearly breaking it. The bullet was recovered on the far side missing 3 of 4 petals. He went maybe 20 yards and was...

Sounds similar to the nonsense I've been dealing with. Also from Idaho. My route in June was simple, SLC-FRA-WDH. The flight out of Salt Lake on EuroWings can't depart due to temperature, fuel load, and too much cargo. They say come back in the morning, we'll try again. So, we come back...