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Yours is a special run of Marlin 336 rifles for lever action silhouette shooting. They have heavy 24 inch octagonal barrels with Ballard rifling instead of the standard micro groove rifling for Marlins. The Ballard rifling is better for cast bullets, which is usually what we use. They have...

I live in New Jersey. Philadelphia is not a point of entry for trophies. I used Genus near JFK two months ago and would recommend them. By the way, I drove to Genus and took the crate directly to my taxidermist.

I was born and raised not far from the fire location. One is the best fishing days of my life was with my uncle in Shebandowan, which is in the fires zone . To the best of my recollection, we did not have large forest fires as frequently or to the extent that we do now. Not that there weren’t...

I was in Zimbabwe last July, almost exactly a year ago. I was very glad that I brought a down jacket with hood for early morning rides atop the Land Cruuser. I wish I brought gloves for the same reason. A backpack is useful for storing the jacket once it gets warm. My buddy had exactly the...

The deposit and final payment is much easier if the outfitter has an account in the US. MG Hunting has an account in Florida and so does Elephant-Trails in Zimbabwe. The latter outfitter got a very bad review on this forum but my buddy and I got exactly the experience we wanted. It really is a...

Forgot to mention that it was July 2025 and not a long time ago. It was also a nice kudu.

A friend used to run the check station for the Montana winter elk hunt for elk moving out of Yellowstone. After checking in hundreds of elk his opinion was that the 270 was marginal and often required a lot of tracking while the 338 was more authoritative. That elk hunt was gone a while ago...

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Mine is an RSM in .375. It badly needed replacing the trigger with a Timney and after that I like it very much. It shoots well and the recoil is milder than my light deer rifles. A long time buddy has two tang safety rifles. One is in .338 that shoots great. The other is in 7/08 that couldn’t...

Thanks. I have gone through Newark before when taking Newark to Johannesburg. The hard part was finding the place to check a gun. It was only with the unaccompanied children station but the agent was familiar with the process. I was born in Northern Ontario north of Lake Superior and can deal...

Thanks for the post. I was unaware of salmon fishing in Argentina.

Agree completely. I enjoy getting into the weeds and often skip over the basics. The original post basically contends that home ownership is an inferior asset to stock ownership. That contention requires predicting the future, something that I try to avoid because I am often surprised.

I have taught a lot of financial planners/wealth managers. An economist would look at home ownership as being a landlord to yourself. At the same time you are renting from yourself, which is a consumption decision. The good thing is that you avoid landlord/tenant information asymmetry since you...

I took a kudu as an add-on during a Zimbabwe buffalo hunt. It was $1600. No fence concession area.