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    Distractions From Other Shooters?

    Gday same ol I don’t hunt out of a box so not fully relevant but to me dosent matter if a box or car or whatever it is a sign of one’s morals & respect for our fellow hunter which overall Keep better company I’d say Now with that said , I have mates who smoke & they are polite & ask if they...
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    AUSTRALIA: Get together near Melbourne

    Gday @Tintin Don’t know what happened I didn’t receive a pm ? A little short notice sadly for me as I’m booked solid for next 4months although I’d love to . Overall im a little bummed on it as I would love to catch up with you guys on the big island & would love to see @Bob Nelson 35Whelen...
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    POLL: What's the best .458 solid bullet for Elephant?

    Gday I got a little inquiry into re my “dangerous trees “ Here’s best what I mean & one I am not confident enough to fall these types of trees with a chainsaw that wind snaps them 1/2 way up & still not fully down so out comes the Jeffery cheers
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    POLL: What's the best .458 solid bullet for Elephant?

    Gday Nice writing @Mark A Ouellette & good stuff also in post #41 @SStomcat opening Pandora’s box on the hornady dgx hmmm probably better for another thread but for now I’ll give this little bit of information on them I was doing a cull on bovines & couple other species that I was using my...
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    Cast Lead vs Monolithic Solids for Serious Work....................

    Gday David jr Thanks for the update & glad all went well , rest up Cheers
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    AUSTRALIA: Big Bulls, Big Boars, Big Fun With BIG COUNTRY SAFARIS AUSTRALIA 2026

    Gday Tim Great stuff & looking forward the rest Cheers
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    POLL: What's the best .458 solid bullet for Elephant?

    Gday Thanks for link @matt85 interesting stuff for sure Moving on a touch ( not disrespecting you Matt or the poll ) as I See we are entering the same old stuff again of this vrs that brand . Let’s hopefully step back a bit & break this down a touch & look @ this from a non brand situation...
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    POLL: What's the best .458 solid bullet for Elephant?

    Gday my position is I don’t look @ when things go right it’s the average to poor that I like to investigate/concern me A few fun facts that some people take note of others just look @ a dead critter so all is good On solids Straight line & adequate penetration from multiple...
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    Minimum standards

    Thanks Ontario I appreciate it Cheers
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    Minimum standards

    Gday rule 303 I would agree with this above Thanks for the generalisation as what we are doing is staying within known limits of a projectiles ability while reducing the recoil substantially while gaining better & more consistency in the wound channels & straightline ability that is second to...
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    Minimum standards

    Thanks fox I’m covering my bases as it’s the incident that concerns me as we are testing some different projectiles that on the weight side are extremely light eg 196 to 226 gr 375 cal & 360 gr in .510 cal that have been showing extremely good results which in Aussie I have no issue whatsoever...
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    Exporting firearms from Australia

    Gday I can vouch for this I traveled to Zimbabwe in 2023 had everything sorted so I believed & on fronting up to our local abf office in Tasmania who the officer on checking the airline tickets that went to Bulawayo, informed me that the sanctions were in place so no rgp would be issued , let...
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    Minimum standards

    Gday Been working through a few things & one I understand province’s & countries have different rules/standards than ea other on minimum bullet weights , some energy requirements , might even be some that use things like minimum sectional density numbers etc? Does anyone have information...
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    Any Sako rifle fans on AH? Let's see them

    Gday Andrew Definitely not good but worse is when your cycling the bolt for next shot & squeeze off & the dreaded click Just lucky we weren’t on a DG cull or hunt only getting the feel of it to create muscle memory although that’s pretty easy for me these days as I only run sakos these days...
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    Any Sako rifle fans on AH? Let's see them

    Gday going through some old videos & deleting some to free up some space on my phone for which I thought some might find this interesting It was easily fixed & love my sakos but man straight from the factory this shouldn’t have occurred imo 500 Jeffery is caliber Cheers
 
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