Recent content by BryceM

For a .375 that will see actual use against plains game critters, I tend to favor something that can fully exploit the ballistics of the round. There's no real reason the .375 can't be used well to at least 300 yards. For me, something at 12X at the upper range would be ideal. For this to be...

My personal rules have evolved over time. I went from "have nothing, can afford nothing", to quite comfortable. We've been incredibly blessed an more than a little lucky. Building real wealth has everything to do with discipline and only a little to do with income. At one point we were so...

I’ve considered Christensen Arms in the past, but the extraction problems a friend has been dealing with put me completely off the idea. Many trips back and forth to the factory, a couple of spoiled hunts, and the situation almost devolving to getting attorneys involved made me stay away.

My most recent Tikka has been astonishingly accurate. With a suppressor, even a .300 Win a bit on the light side will be tame enough. Go get it and don’t look back. Put any $$ you save in better glass, etc.

Wow. What a beast! Whoever does the taxidermy is going to be augmenting the form quite a bit. :)

I was a surgical intern at Dartmouth watching the news on a big TV in a conference room. My structural engineering degree led me to conclude that the heat from the fires would probably bring the building down at some point. I was so horrified when we watched it happen on live TV. We expected...

The Kalahari is great. The lack of light combined with dry air makes for some intense viewing conditions. Possibly the most moving view I’ve had of the sky happened when we were stuck for an hour or two at the top of a ridge in the Khomas Hochlands in Namibia. The cruiser overheated and it...

The bullet takes up a good part of the total case volume. The area that is left is used for the calculation. A standard COAL is used to make this calculation.

Great report. Cool adventure to the actual end of the earth.

The weight of the rifle and the design of the stock are probably more important. I have a youth model 7mm-08 with a decent recoil pad that kicks hard enough to break stuff. When are they necessary? Never. When are they nice? Always.

I've been to Africa 8 times and South America 3 times. No issues. But, on my wife's first trip, she got pretty bad GI symptoms in Namibia. The pharmacy there honored my US medical license and we were able to get the antibiotics my friend recommended. We were at the tail end of our trip and...

Just read all this. What a great hunt. As you said, everything after the cat was a bonus. What a great pair of buffalo. Please post photos of the finished taxidermy. :)

During a muzzleloader hunt in Colorado, we were on a ridge across from at least 20 mature 6-point bull elk. They were scattered around across the canyon less than 400 yards away. There was hardly a 5 second break without a bugle. This went on for hours and I probably heard 1000 bugles in that...

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If I can quickly get a vehicle to an animal, I will gut it. If it's going out on my back, the gutless method is easier. Yes, it's very possible to remove the tenderloins without going inside. Technically, it's called a retroperitoneal approach, which is a place surgeons can operate "behind...