Recent content by frhunter13

The Whelen is useful and popular. Also does whatever the 9.3 does. If you want to go magnum, the 338 is a mini compared to a real magnum. Has good ballistics though. Different class anyhow. My gunsmith had one rifle. Was a production 35 Whelen. He never needed anything else. He was the one that...

Bob. Receiver is VZ 24 Mauser. 3.23 was 8x57JS max coal. She will run 3.34 but barely. I would rather avoid possible hang ups when it counts. She is sub MOA anyhows. as for the 338, I turned mine into a 375/338 Chatfield Taylor. More better! That one is a Real thumper and runs 3.34 no problems.

I run 225g TSXFB at 2700 fps by chrony at ten feet with 59g of RE15C. COAL 3.25. Also by chronograph at ten feet 250g Speer SPFB bond at 2720 fps COAL 3.29 using 59g BLC2. Also using 57g RE17, 275g Woodleigh gets 2440 fps by chrony 3.28 COAL. 310 Woodleigh gets 2340 fps with 55.7g RE17 3.28...

When in SA we stopped in a wonderful hunting shop with a rifle section. They had a gorgeous Musgrave in 9.3x62. Unfortunately it had been sold already when I saw it. It was superbly balanced and had fabulous wood. A lady had spoken for it the day before but was waiting for paperwork. I never...

Shot through a gap in the bush, luckily. 480 g solid flat head might have blown through something but I will never know. Put a golf ball sized blooded hole through center of his heart. I get the health issues. Me too.

In that case never hunt in high grass and thickets? Oh if every thing were perfect is it really hunting? This dugga boy was standing in a dirt rub by himself with no other buff in sight, heh. Could see him through bush after tracking him for a mile or so. Shot through bush. DRT. Other buffs...

I was fortunate. After I downed the big Buff, several more stood up in the tall grass. They took one look at me and the two others with big guns and decided to run. Whew. I never even saw the one hiding under a tree. He had me to rights, but did not charge for some reason when I put an insurance...

Diverging to the 458 Lott. Mine put a 480g Peregrine V2 solid through both shoulders and the heart and would have killed another in-line Buff if one had been standing there. 60 yard shot muzzle 2238 fps. Some wasted power there, from a gun that was designed before the modern bullets were...

Well if we stick to Africa the 9.3 x 62 is the minimum allowed in SA for the thick skin ones of the big 5. The 375 HH is much preferred and is what most of the PH’s carry. I think what we are talking about is the 9.3 vs the Whelen. The Whelen has no rep in Africa because the 9.3 took that...

Overkill is burned or blooded and wasted meat I agree. So yes overkill is quite common. For a meat hunter anyway . That’s why I would rather a heavier and slower bullet, since here in heavy woods the shots are pretty close range. Really depends on circumstances. Trophy hunting is very different...

The 35 Whelen is ,358x61. The 9.3 is .366x62. They are closer than a comparison of 3006 bs 308 so the arguments are endless. I don’t think the animal hit can tell the difference!. Much easier to find brass, ammo or bullets in the USA with the Whelen. In Africa the opposite is true. The 9.3...

Only when it is loaded into a rifle that is a single shot break open and has an exposed hammer. Any caliber over 35 can be used for this if the rifle type was made before 1900 and satisfies the criteria above. I have such a single shot and have taken my biggest deer with it in primitive arms...

Ha ha Not So. 35 Whelen is Very popular in the single shot world of primitive arms hunting here in Louisiana and Mississippi. Also where states minimum diameter for big game hunting is .358. Also capable of taking any animal on the planet except that many African countries limit the diameter of...

Sure is a quandary. Last trip I was planning to take my 458 Lott and my 3006. Ended up just bringing the Lott cause two rifles is a HASSLE. Had to use the PH’s 375 HH half way through on other game after the Buffalo. So if I go again it will be with a 375/338 Chatfield Taylor on a Mauser frame...

A bit much. Mine is custom with a camo Kevlar bedded stock. See no reason to go from 25” to 24”. The Lott is a good caliber for several of the big 5 though. Can’t imagine it being worth $4500 though. Worth it to me when shooting at a dangerous animal, yet you can still get them for about $2,000...