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Unlock lever adjustment: When scope comes into place it clicks in and locked by a camming pin, and the unlock lever should drop ( but not fully). I just needed to set this up, and in the instructions ( earlier in this post).. it says unlock (11) with Allen key, then very very minor adjustments...

Hi All, I read up to page 10... lots of opinion stuff.. and so I then went straight to write this. This is my personal take, and some experience with Mark Sullivan. So dont take it to seriously, as we are all different. He does life different that most, so do I, so do many. I met Mark and his...

I used Woodleigh Hydro's 300gr in a Kimber 375H&H at Caprivi area in 2019, and with one bullet type shot Hippo, Wildebeest, Warthog, Dieker, Croc, Zebra... wound chanel was very good on all. Leupy VXR 3-9x40 scope was mounted forward as much as possible. I always take a pre sighted spare scope...

Yes I hear what your saying. I'm keen for either to rock up, and we hunt within the cartridge range and bullet capability. Most cartridges do well side on.. with the required expansion./or wound chanell effect. 27 years ago I sold a nice 458, as we lost 3 buffalo in one season, not good... 500gr...

Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!

After guiding 900 plus Buffalo etc hunts.. the only rifle/cartridge one shot that killed 100% was when the heart was taken out.. or above center through both lungs.. or brain. I'm referring to killed 100%. (not 99 or 95%).. as we all know the 1% is what gets client or ph killed. So when guiding...

I have used Qatar and Emirates 3 times Australia to Kyrgyzstan...( via Dubia or Doha) and both times the staff knew what to do very well. And yes I have 4 copies of everything. If trophies in my return luggage.. (skulls, horns, skin).. I also pre make up a note / tag on luggage handle.. saying...

Here in the land down under...we had a hunter bring his long heavy Ruger 416 Rigby... second trip he bought along his beloved very well used rusty ol Marlin 4570 with a Buffalo Bore load, and shot our biggest (at the time) ever Water Buffalo trophy out on a vast flood plain.. we were laying low...

New +/-45 year old Ruger to have amongst the camp rifles this year. Apparently it was from a collector who passed...a young guy bought it fired 1 shot (oouch) and sold it quite fast.. lol.. to me last year. Mint condition. First mod was throw solid Ruger pad far away...and a lovely soft Kickeze...

Perfect... get that normal one crankin in Africa. Two friends use em in 416RM on Buffalo here, perfect rifle carry weight aswell.

African adventurers.. we all have varied opinions on trophy Buffalo, and dugga bulls.. ideal sports cars or best 4x4... we all get to decide before we take the shot. Many of us from overseas will call mature or aged or old Buffalo as dugga bulls no matter what the various scientific definitions...

Yep, send me a load please. More hunters are using our rifles nowadays, have 375H&H, 404 Jeffery and 416 Rigby rifles... getting 2x 458WM rifles for Buffalo camp. I just spoke to Adam one of our guides, his load is a 480grainer, with Benchmark 2 powder for 2100fps.

Back to look at this post... Great comments everyone., and the offers for axel to go try a rifle are awesome. Plenty of good advice.. some bigger guys can handle anything... and its technique. I used to have a 500Jeffery I had made by Sabi in RSA on a Vektor action, almost 11lb, and with a...

I'm not a big chap, and only medium muscled. So a 404Jeffery or 416RM I find comfortable to shoot a few at sighting or practice.. and hunting no problem. So accuracy and shot placement is alway very good. The 416 Rigby cartridge I have use mostly, over 26 years, is fat and lots of powder and...

The 1957 Series 1 Land Rover pics I posted above.. is actually underneath all a 1991 Toyota Hilux., except for LR panels. About 9 years ago I bought a cheap dented Hilux twin cab petrol 4x4, took off all the body except for floor plan, firewall, inner guards and grill. Then I shortened the...