Recent content by Shako Badhan

I’m always a fan when a thread like this floats back to the top. I first fell in love with double rifles after handling a Howdah hammer double rifle. Think it was in 577 BPE with original 14 or 16 inch barrels. Just very cool.

Great knife. I had one on a gun belt for years, and still do.

The SO5 is Sold pending funds, again.

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It was the Galana River, a little west of the Tana. It was pretty full of kiboko and mamba so at least Tasvo still has those in good numbers.

This still happens. I know someone in Kenya who had their 458 Win taken away and later had it returned for the same reason. A funny coincidence that .458 is also the caliber issued to the Kenyan Wildlife Service…

The SO is back up for sale. The buyer pulled out just before Christmas and I had not gotten around to reposting it. In the interim it did receive a full service from Beretta and has a clean bill of health. As before any questions let me know!

I have spent a fair amount of time living and working in East Africa and have come to believe anything is possible there. As has been said here before the post-colonial politicians looted natural resources to include ending hunting to allow for their sponsored poaching operations. They also took...

Thanks for the post and sorry to hear about your experience. They had a nice Beretta competition shotgun listed a bit ago that I thought about. Ended up deciding against it as I could see it was not in as good condition as they described. There are fewer and fewer dealers I will buy from these...

The Beretta is SPF. Thank you everyone for the kind comments.

Thanks for the report. I have often considered the daka storage system as I have a bunch of pelican cases all with missing or mutilated foam.

Responding to your PM now

I think less than 4K

This is my favorite shotgun and one of the best handling guns I have owned, but I’ve decided to change up so I’m putting my SO5 up for sale. The SO5 is a true sidelock O/U and is Berettas top of the line clays gun. These are hand built in their custom shop by master gunsmiths on what is widely...

Has anyone else spotted this one yet? https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/double-rifles-english/charles-osborne-co-sxs-rifle-303-british.cfm?gun_id=103353187