Recent content by buffybr

I'm like Ontario Hunter as I'm old school and I think that most of the modern "tadtical" rifles are just plain butt ugly. I've re-stocked most of my rifles, upgrading to fancier wood and doing the work myself. For two of my rifles I've always cringed on taking them on hunts where foul wet...

My .375 RUM came with a 26" barrel and I had a 2" brake installed on it. I've used it on 3 hunts with absolutely no problems.

In probably my first 10 or so years of living in Montana I wore the same yellow plaid shirt hunting...

Moose are not hard to kill with properly shot hits and proper bullets. You want a deep expanding bullet into the heart/lungs. I've shot 3 moose. Two Montana Shiras bulls with my .30 Gibbs and 180 gr Nosler Partitions and an Albert bull with my .300 Wby and a 180 gr Barnes TTSX. I took a...

Many floor pedestal mount forms are made with a concave curved back, but standard flat back forms can be used on pedestals. The previous pic of my Scimitar horn oryx is a flat back form that is mounted on a floor pedestal. My taxidermist has used two methods of attaching mounts to floor...

I used my .375 RUM with 270 gr Barnes TSX bullets on one South African hunt for 2 Steenboks, a Vaal Rhebok, and a Jackal. The holes weren't bad enough that my taxidermist couldn't fix them. I've had a hard, unsuccessful time finding 7mm FMJ bullets for my 7mm RM and ended up swaging .308 FMJ...

Years ago I was a big fan of Nancy Glaizer's North American wildlife paintings and I was able to buy #29/100 of 9 of her Artist Proof prints. When she still lived here in SW Montana, I had her sign several of them. I had 8 of these prints framed and on the walls of my Trophy Room and Living...

The 5 kilo flight limit applies to the total weight of the ammo that you are carrying, and may differ from the amount of ammo for each rife that you may bring into their country. On my 2nd trip to Mozambique, I was only after a Sable and some plains game, and only took my .300 Wby, along with 4...

I've only hunted 2 African dangerous game animals, a Cape Buffalo and a Leopard. Both were one shot kills with my handloads. The buffalo with a 300 gr Barnes TSX bullet from my Rem 700 .375 RUM and the Leopard with a 168 gr TTSX bullet from my .300 Weatherby.

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Annealing the brass before forming may collapse the shoulders.

Beautiful mount and a definate space saver!

There's a huge difference between encountering a close call and in provoking a close call.

I've only used my .375 RUM on two African hunts. The first hunt was in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and I used 300 gr Barnes TSX bullets handloaded at 2830 fps. A 50 yd broadside shot went through one shoulder, the chest cavity, and stopped in the off shoulder. It was a perfect mushroom: The...

I shot my first Antelope when I still lived in Colorado in the early '70s. After moving to Montana in 1975 I drew antelope tags almost every year and hunted them here until just a few years ago. I enjoy hunting them and like to eat them. I shot my first few antelope with my .30-06, a few...