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    One gun or two? On safari

    Yeah. He's the one that will be crying in camp after his extractor breaks, or begs to borrow your spare. He may even try to mug you for your rifle. Okay, maybe not that, but having a spare can be really bad.
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    One gun or two? On safari

    So what happens when something breaks on your one rifle? I never travel anywhere to hunt without two fully functioning rifles. I fell while hunting in Eastern Washington and banged up a scope. At camp I had a spare. A buddy of mine fell while hunting in Nevada and wrecked his scope. Now he...
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    Why all the 6.5 Creedmoor Hate?

    That sucks. And I complained in '22 when I paid $150 for 100 Lapua .300 WM cases. I don't know what they would cost now.
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    Heck of a gift

    What a wonderful gift! I don't have a .270, but I have killed kudu and Nyala with a .30-06. My PH told me that he'd had a client take a giraffe with a .270 and I met a guy that killed a zebra with his. A buddy of mine has been killing mule deer with his .270 and uses 140 grain Accubonds at...
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    One gun or two? On safari

    Unless it's a local day trip I always take two rifles. On my last Africa trip, I took my .458 WM and my .300 WM. Before that it was the .458 and .30-06. It's not really any more difficult to take two than one. What would you do if you had a rifle malfunction with.only one gun? You could borrow...
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    300 WSM, 300 WM, or 300 PRC for Freestate Plains Game

    Not just in Alaska, and not just .338. Just finding brass and bullets for a .300 WM in the Lower 48 was tough. I do not know why the manufacturers can't seem to keep up. I have heard that a lot of the materials are going to Ukraine causing a shortage, but I don't know if that's true.
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    300 WSM, 300 WM, or 300 PRC for Freestate Plains Game

    Oh, now that's funny!
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    300 WSM, 300 WM, or 300 PRC for Freestate Plains Game

    PBrick, I see you started this thread.in June of '22. So what did you end up with? How has it worked out? In case you haven't chosen yet, my vote is the .300 WM. I've used mine on two mule deer, and one each of black bear, bull moose, nyala, waterbuck, bushbuck and impala. The impala was the...
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    Can we please stop talking about "flat shooting" cartridges

    Wind deflection is a combination of BC and time of flight. The longer a bullet spends between the muzzle and the target the more it is deflected by the wind. TOF is directly related to the initial velocity.
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    Wild hog meat… do you eat it or is it too risky?

    I've also eaten them roasted whole on spits over charcoal. Two different friends would take hogs around 100# and cook.them slowly. One had a motorized drive, the other had a hand crank. They both used rosemary branches to baste the hogs with olive oil and herbs. Delicious. Everyone wanted an...
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    Wild hog meat… do you eat it or is it too risky?

    When I lived in Northern California we used to shoot them and eat them. They seem to be best used as sausage. one friend of mine has his families market and butcher facility. He made the greatest linguica and Italian sausage out of them. While pigs can carry and pass on a couple of illnesses to...
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    Why all the 6.5 Creedmoor Hate?

    I'm not sure what.happened to Velo Dog's thread but Paul if you are still reading this, here goes. We don't really disagree on whether or not the .308 length cartridges fit better into semi autos or pumps. I had read that.somewhere but it clearly isn't true as we know both Remington and...
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    Why all the 6.5 Creedmoor Hate?

    Absolutely right. The rifle manufacturers follow the trends and try to shape them. They are in business to.make money. They have no interest in killing off older cartridges but they do want to market buyers. If certain older cartridges do not sell as well as something newer the ammunition...
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    40 years ago today

    The peep might receive that sentence, but not the father of the victim. This country is in the hands of mad men.
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    Why all the 6.5 Creedmoor Hate?

    Hey! I could do that....oh...wait...I thought you said 60 yards. Never mind.
 
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