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I had a similar situation. I used a pellet rifle in the back yard to practice putting the rifle on the sticks, stabilizing it and getting the shot off. I found that this helped on both my African hunts as the animals didn't seen to want to stand still while I fussed around.

I like to listen to audio books while driving in the car. You can also use the Internet Archive to download pdf files of said books then use a web site such as perchance.org to generate an MP3 file to listen to. May take a bit of cleaning up but I've had good luck. They even have a choice of...

Day One Started on the range beside the camp where I managed to show rifle was sighted in with one round. My first hunt started out badly. We were in a game reserve looking for either an impala or springbok. Did not go far down the road when our tracker spotted a head of blesbuck, so we...

I took a .308 last October to Limpopo. Used 165 gr Nosler Partitions at 2700 fps with no problems. Took a blue wildebeest, blesbuck, warthog and zebra with no problem. Shots were not that long, less than 200 yards. I didn't do any better than the previous trip with a .275 Rigby with 160 gr...

I've dealt with Kellet on several purchase. He is straight up and has put a serious dent in my bank accounts. Thank heavens I have a nice Browning .375 Hi Power Safari or this would be a serious consideration for me. His stuff is first rate. Free bump.

Rifles marked down fomr $2k to $200! Put in cart and check out with PayPal. I don't think so.

I've used Africa Sky for both pre and post hunts twice. Easy pick up and drop off and a fantastic location and restaurant.

Beautiful rifle. I really like the bolt mounted peep sights on these Rigby rifles!

I took rifles with 3-9 scopes to Africa and never moved them off of 6x or so. I would love to see more of the fixed 6x scope being offered rather than those high magnification versions with knobs to turn to adjust. I never had an animal stand still long enough to fiddle with adjustments before...

^^ This. Then use it for a Garmin Chronograph.

Don't know the truth of it, but my dealer told me Beretta will only import the Bavarian model if there is an order for it.

Great rifles. Took mine to Africa and shot three animals with it. GLWS

I have a Sako Bavarian Model 90 in 6.5x55. I is almost a boring rifle as it seems to shoot anything I put thru it well. Rings were a bit of an issue, but I do like the rifle, especially the single set trigger. So far I've put about 120 rounds thru it. My Steyr (recent) is a PH III in .30-06...