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I hear and read often that the recoil of a rifle caliber 378 Weatherby Magnum would be very unpleasant. I have never shot a rifle of this caliber and for this reason I don't know if the recoil is stronger than that of a rifle caliber 460 Weatherby Magnum, although the rifles caliber 378...

Three caliber .338 250gr Sierra Game King bullets from Elk's. In the first one on the right, the lead core has completely come loose from the jacket.

I have not seen a Tse-Tse fly in a long time, despite that I was in Zimbabwe and Mozambique several times in the last decades. As far as I can remember, the last time I saw this flies was 1994 in Ouganda. Maybe the eradication attempt did something.

Sure, it's known, but these are already tips for advanced reloaders. In our case, I would leave the military cartridges as they are and load the other bullets with new components according to the rules of the art.

I would start by reading a reloading manual to first assimilate the principles of reloading cartridges. Your plan is everything that you are not allowed to do. It is extremely important that you master the theory of reloading cartridges before you start and if you are not sure of your doing...

Sure, and polar bears can get even bigger. The topic was mainly about the fact that a woman killed a bear with the 22 Rimfire, rather than about which cartridges are best suited for bear hunting. As I wrote, it is possible under very special circumstances to shoot bears with small caliber...

As far as the rebated rim is concerned, Harald Wolf wanted to optimize something there, but I don't know whether that made much difference. I never had any problems by reloading my rifle caliber 12,7x70 Schüler quickly while hunting. A lot depends on the gunsmith who built the rifle.

Before WWII, Norwegian hunters and trappers were very active in northeast Greenland. Based on the large number of empty shells caliber 6,5x55 and the few still intact very old cartridges of this caliber with FMJ that I found around the beaches of this country, this must be the cartridge that was...

It depends on how you hunt the polar bear. Traditionally, polar bear hunting is primarily a wintertime hunting and with dog-sleds. I have never hunted polar bears, but I have hunted a few times Muskox with dogsleds in Greenland in the wintertime. When the Muskox herd is spotted, you release a...

If you mean the general George Armstrong Custer, sure ! My great-grandfather born in 1856 is even said to have talked about Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Maybe there are several stories about bears killed with the 22 Rimfire, but I always heard of a native woman who did that.

Interesting story, but nothing new. The older hunters should have known the story for decades. I myself in Europe have known about it for more than 50 years and it is regularly quoted when it comes to which cartridges are suitable for hunting bears.

Summarized, separation of core and jacket with significant weight loss of the bullet does not always have to be viewed negatively. In theory it seems detrimental, but in practice it is often more effective than would be expected. No matter how, the pathway of a bullet in the body of a game...

Another bullet that loses much of its weight, but still surprises with its effectiveness. In Burkina Faso, a hunter shot a buffalo with the cartridge 9,3x74R and the 9,3mm 238gr/15,4g GPA bullet. I warned him beforehand in the camp that this bullet was a bit marginal for buffalo hunting...

Some bullets, and there are still some on the market, were designed to fragment and the weight loss was inevitable. It was a lot of advertising around them in the past. The famous cartridge 8x68S was initially marketed with such a bullet. H-Mantel Geschoss RWS