Recent content by Il luccio

That makers is honestly one of the best I’ve ever hard. The green river stuff is very good as well. I’m glad we finally started getting distribution on it. I need to pick up a new bottle of the makers. I can’t remember what the recipe was but I think something very similar to that. I’ll have to...

Are those 1792 store picks better than the normal stuff? I got a bottle of BiB and thought it was extremely average.

If you get to South Africa, when I was there visiting a friend he turned me onto Rooibos Gin they make there which was fantastic (or so I remember :LOL: )

I’ve slowed the collecting down, but people might appreciate some of it.

@ActionBob & @skydiver386 In the spirit of digressing, she’s a scientist and I have now introduced the concept of handloading and this is the current conversation: “Omg you can fill your own shells?” “What is the benefit of it? Besides the fun” “Do you think we could bring custom ammo to...

I think we can digress a bit. The first 30 posts have all the info I was going to say this same thing. When I was in Germany as an exchange student in highschool my host family was a hunting family and they had an amazing collection of double rifles and drillings. I think some of it boils down...

Ass Pro Shops :LOL: Yeah, that is probably true. I’d definitely keep my eyes open for one. They be great at my cabin up here. Where we hunt you often come across roughed grouse while deer hunting. Having a rifle over top a 20 or 16 would be great.

I am a duck hunter at heart, so I anticipate at least one or two safari the include a fair amount of shotgunning. I also figure in the instance of some of those duiker in heavy brush we’d borrow a camp gun where I not to have mine with me.

I don’t think you would be the odd one out. I think that tends to be the case it seems. Best gun is always relative to the person shooting it. There is always some tradeoff and a compromise somewhere unless you own all of the guns, which could be a strategy as well… :unsure: a drilling or combo...

I love my .44 Mag ‘94. I think she may use it for taking whitetail deer next year. I would think it would probably work too in the same way a .375 would (obviously much less recoil). Only thing is that I feel like those rounds hit and tumble. Interesting thought.

100%. She’s interested in possibly doing Cape buffalo, she she’s going to have to get there eventually and some more. Baby steps though. .223 to a 6.5 or .257 or 7mm-08 to a .30-06 and then hopefully ahead can manage that and then I feel like with those big magnums, not having shot them, it’s a...

Full agree. This would be something down the line. She has expressed some interest in buffalo so eventually she needs to get to being able to handle atleast a 9.3x62, but incrementally. I definitely have also thought about a 7mm-08 similar to the .257 Robert’s. I think I would need to start...

This is interesting. Wouldn’t this be sort of akin to using a 6.5 CM and just working up a reduced load to match the 6.5 Swede (forgive my ignorance of handloading, I’ve never done it, I just know that ballistically the Swede and the CM are extremely similar) ? Because that is also something I...

Man, I appreciate the responses. I think a lot of this is confirming a lot of what I was thinking. I think @Philip Glass your suggestion was along with @tinktink12 exactly where my head was at. It seems like with a good mono bullet you can get away with the higher velocity of the .223. I’m...

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