Recent content by uplander01

Whatever I spend on hunting and guns in any given year has to be matched in retirement investments. You can drive yourself mad with all the little stuff. I know it adds up but as someone had already mentioned, when you are responsible for a wife and some kid expenses, there are things that...

Whackin big bulls like that is a good way to get hooked. Congrats

It would look great hanging on the wall in your trophy room. That barrel looks toasted to me.

"Ready for the hunt with HTK Safaris!"

The rifle on the left in this pic above is a Ruger. For $2400 that Bass Pro Win M70 is the best value in current "production" safari rifles without a doubt. Are they super refined? NO. Do they work? YES. Does it have a 3k piece of wood, NO, is that engraving even done by...

It seems like they have put a lot of effort into tactical scopes yes, and I think you could argue they are the best there is for elite military applications. I only have experience with Klassics & Zenith hunting models, haven’t used exos or stratos, I’m kinda done buying rifles and the optics I...

I think large turrets and side parallax or illumination knobs look “tactical”, also large objective lenses. That is just wholly my opinion, don’t expect everyone to agree. I feel that between Swaro and trijicon you have illumination options that are clean and sleek looking as well as great...

Been using 1-4 s&b and 1-6 swaro straight tubes for years, never needed anything else over there, I don’t shoot at anything much past 200 though. Did 1 safari with open sights only, plan to do that again at some point. I don’t like anything tactical looking on a safari rifle, it’s like...

375 is appropriate, if I was going after black bears again, I would use my 270gr tsx load clicking along at 2700 fps. I've killed a fair ## of black bear back in the day, used everything from 300 WM, 375 HH, 416 RM. Dead is dead, quicker the better especially if hunting where the bears are...

Dakota Safari with 1/4 rib config in 375 HH on GI for $6995, looks minty, absolutely the best value for the money right now.

My ammo bag didn’t make it on one trip and I was traveling with a 500 Jeffery. Luckily safari outfitters in Pretoria had some as well as everything else I had to buy to continue on the trip…..so SA you’re probably good, everywhere else maybe not.

Nothing you can’t do well with a 375, especially if you’re a hand loader. I’m facing the same question but in about 5 years. A 375 can be built moderately light for ease to carry, recoil will still be manageable, light bullets for longer range plains game, 300-350gr for heavy stuff. A well...

Not only one of the best for rifle work and building, but a really interesting and nice guy to talk with. I wish that fire would have never happened.

I am an advocate for any rifles that have threads to wear a suppressor, it truly is a game changer in a lot of ways. I would never have a brake or suppressor on any 375 and up DG rifle though. Not long ago some major custom manufacturers were making DG rifles with integral brakes...Ryan...

I’d say enjoy that rifle, Weatherby rifles are built the way Roy Weatherby wanted them to be and at his peak he was light years ahead of every other manufacturer. Nice thing about a magnum 30 is versatility. That brake will come in handy doing bench work loading experiment's when volume...