Recent content by buffybr

I have recoil reducers in the stocks of 2 of my competition shotguns and in one of my hunting shotguns, along with reducers in my .300 Wby and my .375 RUM. One of my recoil reducers is mercury, the others are mechanical. I don't remember which one is mercury. They all help to reduce the felt...

I've been fortunate enough to have taken the GSCO Super 10 North American big game animals plus 9 more. I took 7 of my Super 10 animals here in Montana on DIY solo hunts that each only cost me a $25 resident tag and a tank of gas for my pickup. I've literally turned my house into a wildlife...

My Dad wasn't a hunter so I didn't go on my first deer hunt until 1965 and 1966 when I was in college with one of my roommates. I used borrowed rifles on those hunts. Then in 1967 I decided that I needed my own centerfire rifle so I ordered a .30-06 barreled action and semi-inleted stock blank...

To the OP's original question, I wouldn't hesitate to hunt a leopard with either a .308 or .300 Win. shooting any 150-180 gr expanding hunting bullet. Most leopard hunts are short range at a stationary target. Bullet placement is most important! With a shot through the chest, I wouldn't worry...

Beautiful stock! It's almost a twin to my .300 Weatherby that I built and checkered from a Richards semi-inleted blank.

I shot 300 gr Barnes TSX bullets from my .375 RUM on one African hunt. They completely penetrated the plains game that I shot with them. This picture is of of the one that I shot my buffalo with. It went in the near shoulder, throught the chest cavity, and stopped in the off shoulder. It's...

The first special tag that I drew after moving to Montana was for a Mountain goat. One of my co-workers was from Phillipsburg, MT and told me where in the Pintler Wilderness to find one. I waited until late season for the goats to get their long winter hair. When I finally went, I drove as...

I thought the day you resigned and put your bow down was the day in Mozambique when you killed your Roosevelt Sable with my .300 Weatherby. :LOL: (y)

I've only done two African DG hunts, both one shot kills with rifles that I custom stocked. A Zimbabwe Cape Buffalo with my Remington 700 in .375 RUM with a Leupold 2-7x scope and a Barnes 300 gr TSX handload... and a Mozambique Leopard with my Weatherby Vanguard in .300 Wby wearing a...

Since 1996 I've carried a Leatherman on my belt just about everywhere that I go. I'll usually also have a small folding knife in my pocket. A few years ago when I shot my Leopard in Mozambique, when the camp skinners started to skin him, I took out my pocket knife, similar to this one, but...

I prefer full body mounts over rugs. Fifty some years ago when I shot my first black bear I had him done in a rug mount. At one time I had it on the floor, but that gets in the way, and if people walk on it, that will ruin it. An animal rug takes up a lot of wall space, but I l now have him...

That's why I started to do pedestals. :D

Congrats on finding you dream rifle. Growing up in Colorado then moving to Montana 51 years ago where I've practically lived on the elk that I've shot, I've been a solid .30 caliber fan. My first centerfire rifle was a .30-06 that I later had rechambered to .30 Gibbs. At that time I also...

My taxidermist converted my Scimitar horn oryx wall mount to a pedestal mount by covering the back of the form with leather and imbeding a 1/2" id square tube inside the form. The tube in the mount slides over a 1/2" square rod that is welded on a 1/2" dia wood screw that screws into the top of...