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    How much cash to carry on a combined plains game/buffalo hunt?

    I'm wondering how much cash to carry on say a 10-14 day hunt for tips and minimal gift purchases in Tanzania? Looking for a lump sum number, not an itemized number for this person per day, that person per hunt... No side shopping trips, tours, just hunting... Thank you PS - I realize this is...
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    Rigby Rifles At Work Outside Of Africa

    I didn't know deer wore watches...or boots...
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    Professional Hunter Norman Crooks in Zimbabwe was gored but is alive...

    One old warrior VS. another... Hope the PH heals quickly and fully... I'm cured, at least temporarily, of my wish to stalk one of those gigantic black creatures...
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    So you think you need to own a Stopping Rifle...

    As you mention Elmer Keith, I am forever in awe of his love for BIG calibers, despite him being a physically small man. He jabbed Jack O'Connor by calling O'Connor's beloved .270 caliber "...an adequate fox hunting caliber."
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    animal slaughter in namibia

    My testosterone level went the way of the dinosaurs long ago...
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    animal slaughter in namibia

    Elephant contraception? Didn't know they made condoms that big...
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    Current state of Dangerous Game optics?

    designed for straight-pull rifles, such as blaser, perhaps?
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    Magnum primers for 308?

    I can only report on what I have done, for decades... H380, a spherical grained powder, has always done just fine for me with standard large rifle primers. Now, as I pointed out, I was loading well below maximum recommendations for my bullet weight. My data was derived from a Lyman reloading...
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    Magnum primers for 308?

    I've been loading for .308 Winchester since the mid 70s. Never used a magnum primer. Loaded very moderate h380 loads with cci primers and 180 grain Speers for ne USA deep woods hunting, where my longest deer kill was about 70 yards...and that was with a .54 caliber patched round ball out of my...
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    What is the purpose of carrying a knife out in a safari..

    Reminds me of a sign a local gunsmith had hanging in his shop: "Shop rates, $10.00 per hour." "If you watch, $15.00 per hour." " If you help, $20.00 per hour."
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    Gold Medal Large Rifle Magnum primers

    I've used these since the '90s for my .300 win mag...old Remington cases, h4831sc, Sierra 190 grain MK. Loaded to 2950 fps. Not the hottest, but the 26 inch barrel on my first Gen (non fluted, non stainless) Remington Sendero helped gain a tad bit more mv without loading too hot. Used this...
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    Is Blaser Trying To Price Themselves Out Of The American Market???

    I didn't know Beverly Hills had a sub shop...
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    Anyone ever have reloaded ammunition that was hard to close the bolt on? What I do?

    Check the "trim to" length on your resized cases....? If the bolt doesn't close on a reloaded round, it could be the neck has stretched past the maximum overall length from repeated firings...?
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    Summer and winter coats on plains game?

    What African countries have the coldest winters, where the winter protective coat on animals might be the most fully developed and thickest, and what months of year might that be?
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    Zeiss - Giving in to Antis

    Simple solution... Don't buy Zeiss products.
 
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