Recent content by John Telford

Ok so my 2c … .458 Lott - 475 grain Dzombo’s .450 Rigby - 600g Dzombo’s. This tunnels the length of an Elephant. Second choice would be Northfork or any flat nose meplat bullet.

Nice!

You can get .404 j ammo quite easily in SA. Hornady , Norma on most shelves . Bought 10 packs about 3 years ago.

Nice collection Paul, Personally I value my .303 above my .275 (cased takedown) model due to its extreme rarity. Less than 100 ever made , slant box magazine etc.

Just had a successful back to back safari where the clients all used the .338wm . There were two groups of 4 so 8 hunters. I was quite surprised that they should choose this over the .3006 … Personally i also favour the .338 and it is fast becoming my favourite plains game calibre. Makes sense...

The short answer is No the Lott is not the same in stopping power as the .500 J or .505 Gibbs. My friend Pierre van der Walt in his book African Dangerous Game Cartridges- makes the point that you cannot kill an animal anymore “deader” with a 500g bullet doing 2150 vs one doing 2300. However a...

Well it’s not an original Orbendorf Mauser. Cant tell from the pics but it may be original action and barrel? Yours has a new stock and has been drilled and tapped with modern scope bases. Nice rifle and fantastic caliber. I have had a few over the years.

I bought a Grendel some years back as a training rifle for my kids. Turns out it is so useful that it has become a permanent fixture in the rifle case when we go hunting. My son has 15 or so animals with this rifle which is an off the shelf Howa model. We replaced the Boyd’s at one stock with a...

BTW James Freeman scored a bronze medal for distance swimming at the Olympics! He is a fine fellow and 3rd generation Botswana boy.

Prof Jeff Ramsay is the authority on Botswana History you can find him on FB.

Less bolt guns in favour of doubles: .303 preferably by Westley Richards or Evans or 8x57 R Austrian made. 9.3x84R Sabatti or Austrian .375 Flanged by the brothers Holland. 450/400 by Heym or Jeffery 470 by Joe Lang or Jono Rigby. .500 by Krieghoff or any English made .600 by WJ Jeffrey. Done.

I’m also lovin the .338 WM . Mine is a humble Howa with a Boyd’s stock and a warrior silencer. It has 4 Blue Wildebeest and a nice Kudu bull so far this season. My second fav non DG rifle is the 6.5 Grendel. Cheap to shoot and deadly on medium sized game .

Hunting in Angola is on a few private game ranches for now. The Government is working hard to lift its tourism image and hunting will be on the cards soon. There are so few Giant Sable that I doubt that they will be hunted anytime soon. I believe the number is about 200. We are working on...

Nice Paul.

Nice clean MS. All my MS rifles are English finished. These guns go for around $1500-2500 but can go to $5000 depending on condition and if its cased or takedown models.