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    Rwanda

    I don't think hunting will be reopened in Rwanda. The trend is going in the other direction, more and more hunting areas are being lost. I hunt worldwide for more than 40 years and have noted this myself. In my early hunting days, the south of Sudan was still a hunting area, hardly conceivable...
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    TANZANIA: Kilombero North Safaris 2023

    I hunted with KNS in 1996, back then with Ted Gorsline.
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    Rwanda

    Rwanda was a very good address for buffalo hunting until the terrible events 1994. Then hunting was over. Like in many areas of West Africa, hunting was only do with a local guide, often an employee of the forestry administration. The guide was not armed. Unfortunately, I could not hunt there...
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    Very interesting news from Chad

    I would not travel to Chad. It's not much better than in Burkina Faso, terrorism and unstable government with elections coming up. There will be a few more dead people in addition.
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    New and pristine or used with patina?

    I have never hunted in Alaska but a few time in the NWT/Canada and often in Greenland, in summer and also wintertime. The rifles are suffering from the climate conditions, especially when sea water is added. As I have already written, Africa is most gentle when it comes to rifles.
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    New and pristine or used with patina?

    I don't own this rifle. It's a rented rifle Winchester 70 Pre-64 caliber 375 H&H Magnum from 1952 that I used on my last hunt in Mozambique.
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    New and pristine or used with patina?

    For me it's the opposite, although Africa is not the continent that causes the most wear and tear on the rifles.
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    New and pristine or used with patina?

    That's true, but unfortunately before they get a patina they are all shiny. For this reason, If you have bought a new rifle for hunting in Africa, you have to go hunting there immediately and repeatedly at short intervals. This is the only way to quickly give the rifle the desired patina.
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    I'm no expert but ....

    This is about collector's items, not about ammunition for everyday use.
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    500 Nitro Express 3.25” - newbie question

    It's a pity because it's the only book that really helped by reloading such cartridges.
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    500 Nitro Express 3.25” - newbie question

    Reloading such cartridges is not always easy. I reload the cartridges 577 Nitro Express and 600 Nitro Express and had initially big problems to find the right loads. Due to the large capacity of the cases of these cartridges, the sort of powder and the charge must be carefully chosen. Ignition...
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    500 Nitro Express 3.25” - newbie question

    You can, in the long there could be theoretically slight damage to the end of the chamber, but not sure. As for the loss of ammunition, this is extremely rare and if, I also doubt that you can find in a short time 500 Nitro Express cartridges in an African Country.
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    Big Bore Addiction Group

    I also think there is a reasonable upper limit. Apart from the biggest big bore black powder double rifles which are almost museum pieces, a double rifle caliber 600 Nitro Express seems to me to be the upper limit for hunting nowadays, but a double rifle caliber 577 Nitro Express rather the...
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    Big Bore Addiction Group

    The big bore double rifle is a relic from a time when they were the best for big game hunting. The more modern bolt action rifles, especially this caliber 416 Rigby but also this caliber 404 Jeffery or 425 Westley Richards, have due to their comparable efficiency replaced them. That's my problem...
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    Big Bore Addiction Group

    I also own a DR caliber 600 Nitro Express, but I don't really know for what to use such a thing.
 
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