Recent content by DLSJR

Well, since someone resurrected a very old thread… I’ve only shot 2 moose. A big Alaska Peninsula bull that I shot with a 270 Winchester and 150 grain CoreLokt bullets. He was next to a large and deep creek, so I shot him as fast as I could work the bolt and kept shooting till I emptied the...

This is Horrible news, absolutely horrible.

Arizona Black Rattlers are very neat snakes. I’ve seen two, the first while elk hunting in 22 South. I was walking down a trail near dark and there was a ‘black stick’ laying across the trail. Suddenly the stick moved! Startled the hell out of me. I watched it for a couple minutes before...

I look at this topic differently than the OP. Rather than a duty to inform, I regard it as more of an obligation on the clients part to make sure they’re aware of what they’re getting themselves into, and I think the PH or safari company simply needs to at least ask the client if they have DG...

I used to mount most of what I shot, but don’t anymore. Now it’s just a special animal here and there. The rest are kept as skulls and horns, mostly not even euro mounted. When I hunted Cameroon, I shot 5 animals but the only one I’m mounting is the Lord Derby Eland. My last Tanzania hunt the...

My first safari focused heavily on dangerous game. It was a 24-day hunt back in 1983, with Roy Vincent, then of Rosslyn Safaris, in the Deka Safari Area. Mine was the first full safari conducted on Deka in 12 years and it was a very grand adventure. I had everything that occurred in that...

Colt Sauer was using Bubinga wood to stock their dangerous game rifles. I had a 458 Winchester in that rifle & stock. It was beautiful wood, dense. I shot loads that were, at that time, very hot and I managed to develop a small crack in the tang of the stock.

Just wanted to give a quick update about a feeding problem with Cutting Edge solids that I mentioned earlier. With some input from @michael458 i think I’ve figured out a ‘fix’ for my feeding problem. We had a productive discussion via PM, he shared some thoughts which I’ve tried and problem...

very sad and tragic incident, I hope his family comes to grips with his loss and finds comfort in remembering how much better their lives were because of him. While it’s a terrible tragedy, he was doing what he loved when he passed. The rest of us should be so fortunate when our time comes.

When I first went to Africa, I was going every 3 years - 1983, 1986, 1989. Those were big hunts of 24, 15 & 24 days with lots of dangerous game hunting. I booked each of those hunts about 18 months before going. Then I took a long break from Africa to raise a family, finally went back in...

I could be wrong. I’m pretty sure it was 2 tags per person per year. Maybe it’s changed. I hope so.

I came up with a novel idea to hunt wolves in Idaho, after talking with a bow hunter who had problems with wolves on an elk hunt. He had his Labrador Retriever in camp with him and said wolves showed up every night after just a day or two in camp. They were trying to get to his Lab to kill...

I bet there are people who’d pay BIG money to pepper spray then use a stun gun on Malema until the batteries run out.

I also use Murray cartridge slides with elastic cartridge loops. Additionally I carry a cartridge in each pocket.

Both rifles I shoot for dangerous game are pretty user friendly. One is a 375 H&H, shooting 300 grain bullets, mostly TSX’s or Bearclaws at 2,550 fps. The other is a 416 Hoffman (think 416 Remington), shooting 400 grain bullets, again mostly Bearclaws & TSX’s at 2,400 fps. I actually went...