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Although I do have 2 Euro mounts, I'm not a fan of them. One is a pronghorn antelope that I wasn't going to have mounted so I gave the cape to my taxidermist and he gave me back a euro. The other is my American Buffalo that I had a shoulder mount done of him, and had my taxidermist clean the...

My Montana Mountain Goat was an old billy and he stunk of goat. I had all of his meat made into sausage and luckily the freezer that I had him in quit while I was out of town and he went to the county landfill. I don't remember any objectionable smell from my Texas Aoudad, but we didn't bring...

On my Alberta moose hunt last September (2023) nobody said anything about a "moose export Permit." Going into Alberta I had to fill out a Canadian Non-Resident Firearm Declaration form and pay $25. My "Non-Resident Alien Wildlife Certificate Resource Development Certificate" (Hunting License)...

Mozambique, 2015. .300 Weatherby, Leupold VX 3i 4.5-14x40 scope with B&C reticle set at 4.5x, 168 gr Barnes TTSX bullet, 50 yd shot from a ground blind, complete bullet pass through, he was dead 19 paces from the bait.

Zoe with my antelope 2 years ago.

I shot a moose in northern Alberta last year. I drove from my home in Montana to Ft McMurray where I met my outfitter. Coming home, I filled 2 120 quart coolers with ice and boned out moose meat in game bags. I was worried about CWD and the moose antler scull cap, and my outfitter told me to...

I bought and built my .375 RUM primarily for my first Cape Buffalo hunt. That hunt was also one of the few hunts that I've done where I took two rifles. My second rifle on that hunt was my 7 mm Rem mag that I took for Plains Game animals. My buffalo was a one shot kill with a 300 gr TSX...

I've gone on 6 African hunting trips. Some PH's had 2 leg "sticks", others had 3 legs. All were homemade with leather or rubber innertube strips wrapped around the end for the rifle to rest in. After my first hunt I came home and made a 3 leg set of my own to practice with. I used 6' bamboo...

My first centerfire rifle was a Herter's Model U9 in .30-06. I killed at least 30 elk, 2 moose, and a lot of other animals with that rifle without ever having a cartridge feeding problem. My .357RUM, a couple of 7 mm Rem mags, and 3 Weatherby Vanguards are all push feed actions that I have...

Always take 2 rifles so on the last day of your hunt and the animals haven't cooperated by letting your bow hunting buddy to get close enough for a shot, he can borrow your rifle to get his Roosevelt Sable.:D I have gone on 12 international hunts (6 in Africa) and only once did I take two...

I bought my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo hunt in Zimbabwe in 2005. My first trip to the range with it, I couldn't shoot it enough to zero the scope. That was the sharpest, hardest kicking rifle that I had ever fired. It is a stainless Rem 700 with a 26" barrel. So I went home and had a local...

For many years for all of my US and foreign hunting I used Nikon 8x23 or 9x25 pocket binoculars. Then after my New Zealand hunt in 2014 I got a pair of Nikon Monarch 10x42s that I'll probably use for all of the rest of my hunting.

Weight wise, this Zimbabwe Buffalo is probably my biggest. Next would probably be this Eland from the Eastern Cape. I think this was my biggest Kudu from the Limpopo Then my best Sable, from Mozqmbique And my only other Big 5 animal is this Mozambique Leopard with some Canuck that I...

Well, scratch Belgium off of my list of places that I'd like to live, not that it was ever even on my list.

I used 300 gr Barnes TSX reloads in my .375 RUM in 2005 on hunts in Zimbabwe and South Africa. One shot kills on my Buffalo and Nyala and several other PG animals. I was very happy with those bullets. On another hunt in 2007 in the Eastern and Southern Cape regions of South Africa I used 270...