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    Speer .375 cal. 285 grain Grand Slam

    yup. cheap practice stuff (e.g. privi 285 RN in 9.3, the old hornady lead-core SP's and RN's in .375 ) is excellent for my hunting needs. elk, deer and black bear do not demand DGX stuff. the old interlok/bond RN was a great bullet and generally i prefer RN's for game shooting since the...
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    Speer .375 cal. 285 grain Grand Slam

    doesn't look like it. https://www.speer.com/bullets/
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    Speer .375 cal. 285 grain Grand Slam

    I thought I posted a pic of the buck. Here it is. You can see the entry on the point of the left shoulder (covered by the fir branch).
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    Speer .375 cal. 285 grain Grand Slam

    I bought a pile of 285 Grand Slam "2nds". They are accurate from my old SAKO AV .375 H&H. I think I have only shot one deer and one elk w/ them. Bullet shown here was placed on a running buck. Quartering toward me. Point of left shoulder, recovered in the right hind. alos, the elk but...
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    Sauer 100 Black in 9.3x62

    been a fan of various 9.3 rifles for many years. i've got one and it has become a favorite. just deer and a couple elk so far with the sauer. very light and handy and for what i do that's a plus.
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    The fellow in the white t-shirt in the pic w/ the exFL's at Luvua was Ken Enright. He was a Methodist missionary and arrived not long after WW2 when the Belgians still controlled the country. He did a lot of hunting in the Congo including elephant on control for the govt, protection of local...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    Ha! Yeah for sure. I pity kids today with their faces stuck in a smartphone...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    please understand. this was a 16 yr old kid. wide-eyed & bushy-tailed. some memories. started off a mess. bumped off (no room for me) a private (cessna 210) flight to zaire in kenya, so spent a week in nairobi by myself at the ambassador hotel listening to the recurring "put you hand in...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    Grew up in New Jersey. Had travelled w/ my parents to Central & South America b4 this, but this was my first solo. There were a few incidents that led me to believe it might be my last. I can :oops: :LOL: about it now.
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    A really interesting documentary is Fly Rocket Fly on the German OTRAG company which set up a launch pad and sort of compound in the middle of nowhere and I mean nowhere... on the Luvua Plateau...pre-Elon Musk. It's a totally bizarre story and the documentary is quite engaging. CIA...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    Yes. Various types of ammo and components were available at the time, most easily obtained were shotgun shells, but a lot of arms-related stuff seemed to come into the country illegally (everything it seemed in Zaire was "illegal". Heck I WAS illegal, having entered the country illegally...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    Well, that is a story in itself. I was invited by some missionaries to come over and observe their work there which I did, then returned and raised funds for them. I was 16 years old. Who could turn down an adventure like that? And it was........
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    225 gr Hornady in 375HH load data help

    No problem. Here is one I recovered from a large cow elk. (Reflecting back on those years, I can't say now for sure if I've used the 225 Hornady on deer. I've used Hornady 270 SP, 300 RN, Sierra 300 Sp, 235 Speer Sp, 225 Hornady SP and 285 Speer GS on game. Using the latter, now, as I got a...
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    Small game in Zaire/Congo 1980

    Not anywhere near the hunting experience in Africa many of you have. Besides the above, some plains game in RSA in 1989. Francolin, guinea fowl. Red Colobus monkey. These were shot in Shaba/Katanga Province in 1980. Gun was a Czech over/under 12 ga. I forget the loads used for birds but the...
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    225 gr Hornady in 375HH load data help

    I don't know who that is, but my experience with it is that it is a good bullet for the .375 on thin-skinned game. I would not take what I call "any shot" (angles, etc) but IMO on setups, that is, broadsides, slight angles, it will give a guy no excuses on deer/elk/black bear. EDIT: I have...
 
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