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I have no experience with Barnes bullets in .300 Winchester magnum on game but I used the Swift Scirocco 180 gr with a great success in the past, both in Namibia and Europe. I used to load them with Reload Swiss 70 at around 915 m/s (3000 f/s) and I had an excellent accuracy in my Blaser...

Yes, I know it ;) This cartridge might be picky to feed well in a classic bolt action rifle. There was a man in the country who built African rifles but for them in .500 Jeffery, he sent them in Belgium to master gunsmiths who knew how to manage the feeding and therefore, to get a reliable...

I have zero experience with the .500 Jeffery and my experience with the .458 Lott is limited on dangerous game. I just killed a buffalo and an elephant that was wounded by poachers and it was ready to charge us. I shot a good number of plains game with my Lott though. I have used mainly 500...

I went to see my buddy in the south earlier this month. In this area, a lot of people don't mind about roe deers because they prefer boar hunting with hounds and they want to keep their pack specialized on a single specie. It's therefore quite easy to get tags to hunt roe bucks in...

Great report and an excellent start. Congratulation on your dik-dik ! Were you on Lukas's farm ? When I see the canyon and the little mountains in the back ground, It looks like a lot to this place I visited in 2015.

Yes, we have ! But some places are really complicated to access and prices are crazy expensive. I live in the north-east and with large hunting clubs, where you have a lot of boars, being a partner can cost over 10 000 €/ year. In the southern part, it is usually much cheaper and territories...

We have 7 species of big games in France but only 4 are really native. The two species that are the most common are the wild boar and the roe deer. You can find them everywhere or almost now. We also have a good population of red deers but they are not present everywhere in the country like...

Watch out with fenced areas, they are usually very small and a lot of animals still have ear tags because they came from breeding places by truck. However, the law has been changed and game ranches with a real game-proof fence should be forbidden in a near future. Diana hunting works with...

Is it a free range or a high fenced territory ? I have never ever seen, or heard about a trophy fee for a roe buck at 1300 € ! For sure, it depends the place and around Paris, it is more complicated to find tags than in the southern part of France but it remains bloody expensive for a roe buck...

In UK, the fallow deer was introduced more than 2000 years ago now and it is consider as a native species, at least for people I spoke with. I had a great time in the past to hunt them in the Glouchestershire. In my country, the rabbit is considered everywhere as a native species while in...

In Europe, they are indeed among the best with Norma and Sako I'd say, but once again, problem can happen to every brands :( Maybe less common than others but it remains a possibility. Other problems I know with RWS : They had a lack of neck tension with some calibers and obviously...

They it can happen to every brands ! They are known for being "tough" in comparison of others brands. As for factory ammunitions, the worst case I know happened with a box of 8x68 S, I think KS 225 gr that are discontinued now. RWS recalled some batches in the past because of that problem.

I also had some issues at the begining but I found the real problem was not the primer itself but the cases. In .338 Lapua magnum, I tried to reload PPU cases with Degol Starkmantel 300 gr and I had several misfires. I found the pocket primer was in real too deep ! I had several other...

Very interesting infos and thank you for the sharing. I'm sure in one decade, this animal will be more common in the country and I hope it will be a game species. At this stage, I haven't heard an offical problem with jackals even if it is known some were shot by farmers while they were...

Except the 6.5 Creedmoor, I mainly use magnum calibers. I started with Winchester LRM until I had a problems and many misfires. I switched to Federal 215 Gold medal and I bought a big batch of them. I regret I haven't bought more of them at this time. When my stock was low, they were...