Recent content by JPbowhunter

Nice and I like your gun choices too.

Now is the time my friend, they’re still plenty affordable but people are cottoning on to them and the prices are rising. It’s a neat piece of history and certainly a collectors piece but more than that, they’re still very functional hunting rifles after over a century of use.

I thought the pic must have been your own. Mine is a 303.

There is something…no, lots of things to love about a Lee Speed/bsa sporter!. I’d never part with mine.

CWD is something I’d love to hunt someday. I’ve heard not the most challenging hunt but they’re certainly a unique trophy. Does the season overlap with roebuck and muntjac do you know? I did a day hunting roe when I visited my sister in law a decade ago and missed a beautifully pearled buck...

Is it legal for a client to hunt with a handgun in Aus/NT?

My father was a butcher in his younger years and even after getting the farm he/we would do a lot of killing and butchering for the local farmers. What hunters think makes a good butchering knife is very different from what people in the trade rely on at least in this part of the world. The...

Has anyone read Kenneth Anderson? I'm tempted to pick up some of his books to read. I don't expect them to be the same level as Jim Corbett's writing but if they're decent I'll get some.

If we're talking nostalgia and efficacy in hunting I think there's a case to make that everything introduced after the late 1930's is just marketing. By that time we had 6.5x55, 270, 7x57, 303B, 30-06, 8x57, 300H&H, 318WR, 8x68s, 333J, 350 Rigby, 9.3x62, 375 H&H, 404J/450-400NE, 416 Rigby, 450...

I’d respectfully disagree. The quarter rib may be more expensive and aesthetically pleasing but it doesn’t necessarily make it better to shoot with. While in no way would I consider myself an authority, I say this as someone who shoots almost exclusively with iron sights. Don’t get me wrong...

It’s always hard to gauge from photos and I have never held a Rigby ph so my opinion is worth little on that front. But if the drop is the same as the highland stalker then I’d call it a scoped rifle that can be shot with irons rather than a great irons rifle. However, I’d defer to your...

The drop on the stock of that heym gets me, those irons would come straight into line when the rifle is shouldered. Superb.

Wow, what a thrilling adventure! Congratulations on a wonderful trip and very well told.

Don’t worry Bob, I still think you’re a man.

Beautiful guns, just wish they had a tad more drop in the stock for those of us that shoot irons.