Recent content by Pirkan

And in Sweden where I live we're limited to 6 guns for hunting so it's very hard to keep one or two of the most sentimental guns when some relative passes

If you were in Sweden I could give you one for free. I have an old Husqvarna 640 from 51 collecting dust at a dealer friend and it's not really worth anything here.

As some of you may know I am part of the largest student hunting club in Sweden, Luleå studentjaktklubb, or LSJK for short. We have good relations with the main other club in Sweden which is the one in Lund but we´ve just recently started looking at cooperations with clubs around Europe and...

Here´s a small update on all the stuff I´ve tried since making this thread. I began by purchasing a basic 10 liter pot at ikea for next to nothing so I had space for all my experiments. The first thing I made was this very nice chili from a large piece of the neck and some marrow bones. The...

I've hunted with guys who really seem to like it. I'll try to take a couple big bones when we but her the next moose on Thursday and try it.

Due to an abnormally successful start of the moose season with the University hunting club I have a lot of moose meat that I don't really know what to do with. I have a massive outer thigh (idk the English name) from a bull that might do well in some stew or similar so suggestions for that...

How big is the selection of suppressors fit for this in the us? In Europe there's multiple models of light direct thread telescopic cans for .458 magnum calibers and only one that I've found for .510 but cheap and light direct thread cans barely seem like a thing on the us market. I've looked a...

There's a certain sub culture of Swedish hog hunters that love to use this class of caliber to absolutely club year old pigs. They seem really effective for that purpose and ironically it's the 20-30 year olds keeping some calibers alive

That's quite the exaggeration. Most hunters use something a little more powerful like a 308, 30-06 or 8x57 and occasionally 9,3x62 depending on where you are. The 6,5 is far from dead but it's certainly not the most popular by any kind of margin here. There's still massive amounts of old Mausers...

i really enjoyed their attitude towards baboon hunting when I hunted with Tally-Ho

I had the opportunity to shoot the sako 90 at the world premiere and talk to some guys from Sako. They assured me that the 90 will be sold with an XL action in calibers bigger than 375 HH but couldn't say when it'd be available so hopefully they're released soon.

This one is admittedly not much of a trophy but it was a fun hunt. When I hunted with Tally-Ho in rsa we saw a large group of waterbucks at a waterhole near the butchery where we dropped of other animals I shot multiple evenings in a row so we decided to go to said waterhole the next evening and...

I enjoy practicing with a 22lr from sticks and with random improvised supports shooting at clays and some steel targets like in the attached pictures so I don't have to take time from shooting to check paper. At around 200 meters I can make repeated hits but definitely not 100% on the steel and...

One thing I did to minimize the cost of taxidermy was to boil the skulls and bring them home with me in my luggage to have "euro" mounts made locally by a guy I know. In total I think I spent roughly 800 usd on taxidermy for a blue wildebeest, Impala, duiker and warthog as well as some money for...

I used my T3 in 308 with 180 gr Norma Oryx handloads in South Africa with no complaints. The biggest animals i shot were zebra, bwb, and waterbuck and they all died in a timely manner from a single shot. When taking pot shots at baboons at >800 meters the drop was considerable but other than...