Recent content by trperk1

What is the barrel length?

What is the length of the barrel?

Done that run a bunch, quality area for sure. Great field to fork type of dining there too!

I know. This happened in the US, should have mentioned that. My point was making sure you had a copy of the regs with you. For example I had a gate agent try to convince me that my ammo had to be in my gun case on a trip to RSA a few years ago. She did not know the differences between US and...

I had a gate agent make me remove my ammo from my rifle case, insisting that is had to be in a separate container, which I didn't have. It was on my return flight so no harm was done. That was 25 years ago and since then I print the rules from the airlines website and those from TSA the day I...

Used a sling on my first safari. After getting the stink eye from my tracker all morning, sling kept hanging up on brush and making noise, I removed it. There was a couple long walks and a memorable hike up a cliff where I wished I had something. Since then I use a QD sling that I can roll up...

Sable. I was on a Buff hunt and on the trail of a Dagga and looked behind me. 125 yards out, a huge Sable stepped out into a dry river bed. My PH threw up the sticks and got "SH" out of shoot him and I dropped him.

Same! Good thing there were 3 more!

My first trip with @RANCHERO Outfitters was so good, I went back with them again. Both times to their Limpopo concession but targeting different plains game animals, I hunted Buff, Sable and Kudu on my first trip. I'm hunting with them in Zim next year for dangerous game. I took the advice from...

I'm of the camp that you should match the rifle, bullet weight and type to the game. When my kids were young, I set them up with a .243 and it worked just fine. But I wouldn't think of using a light caliber myself. Why? I want to reduce any opportunities for error, one way to do that is use a...

I've been sitting on this and decided to post anyways. I think the author had some unrealistic expectations like; the welcome sign, paying for in transit meals, PH's hanging with hunters after hunt, who was fetching firewood....The sharing of the camp with other hunters seems to be the only...

I only mentioned this as the authored mentioned that he already treated his clothes

Only needed one once while in S. Africa in a ground blind one evening. Dealt with it nonetheless without any big issue. Permethrin is only effective for 30 days btw

I've had this same experience with rifle scopes, binos and range finders. Some US custom agents care about that when filling out the forms, some refuse to include it. I've never had a agent care about anything but my rifle when I return to the US

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