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the meme i posted above is equally applicable to Delta. I always have a lot of PTO in my bank, so the extra day of travel through Doha/Dubai/Istanbul isn't an issue for me. And perhaps there are cases where Qatar/Emirates/Turkish flights get canceled, or they forget hunters' guns, but I've not...

This has probably been the best spring garden I've ever had. I've put up about 8 gallons of garlic/spice dills, and about 2 gallons of bread and butter pickled squash/zuchinni, with about 20 or 25# of squash in the refrigerator waiting to get converted to pickles. Not quite a bushel of green...

I'd guess for some reason, the software running this site gives access to its cookies to google. I can think of no other reason.

Curiously, this just showed up in my YT feed

I don't hate Sullivan, but the persona that comes across in the videos I've seen of him are off-putting to me, and to a great many people. It's difficult for me to imagine the sort of client who would be attracted by that sort of marketing. I'd bet every guy on this forum would assent to a...

I can think of a number of PHs I'd much rather hire - Charlton McCallum, York Mare, Dalton Tink, and Jeff Rann to name 4 well-known ones. To say nothing of a non-famous one like Franco van Rensburg.

Get a wad of toilet paper, smear some chunky peanutbutter on it, put it in a ziplock baggie. Next somebody takes up the stall next to you in a public toilet, throw the toilet paper into their stall, then apologize profusely. "Can you kick that back this way, I'm SO sorry."

Capstick did a pretty thorough job of describing elephant culling in Death in the Long Grass. Two or three guys with large-bore magazine rifles who are also fast at refilling magazines seems to be pretty important. For the folks who did it professionally, I'm reasonably certain some number of...

I think what you're seeing on the butt stock might be a sling. Mark has a very clear and close-up image of the buttstock on page 1.

Don't ask a guy who sees the world in 1 and 0. I see a dog with a lot of loose skin, though I forget the breed - Shar Pei, maybe?

Not to derail this thread into politics/philosophy, but a free people must be self-policing. What I can do is a very different thing than what I should do.

I do my part here and on Quora to discourage this sort of thing.

The only real choices in solids are North Fork, Barnes, and Hornady. Unfortunately, Hornady doesn't offer a premium bullet in .366 to match the solid, and the solid is a 300 gr bullet. Not a huge deal, just something to think about. North Fork and Barnes both make 286 gr solids to go along...

Hornady doesn't make a DGX in .366

404 Jeff, it's the biggest bore I own, either North Forks or TSX. After that it's 375 H&H or 9.3x62

A matter of anatomy and physiology - even at the very end of systole, no animal's heart is empty of blood. Cardiac efficiency is measured by what is called Ejection Fraction. For humans, any EF between about 50 and 70 is considered healthy - that is to say with each contraction, a heart is...

The pressure spike occurs during systole, the contraction of the heart. The top number of your BP is the pressure when your heart is in a contracted state, the bottom number is in diastole, when your heart is relaxed.

I would tend to think a bang flop on old M'bogo is just a stroke of luck.

Not unique to millennials. My best friend (born in '66) bought a 375 Ruger 4 or 5 years ago, and initially topped it with a Sig 4 - 16 x whatever. He bought it for moose hunting in AK. And I was like WTF??? I don't recall what he replaced it with, but I did get him to replace it.

I had brought this up on a thread, seems like a couple years ago, but another nurse (ICU/CICU) way more involved in cardio than I ever was provided some fine detail. I had originally posited that I believe destruction of the heart's pacemaker (sino-atrial node or SA node), and surrounding...

I think you're right.

Good grief. 30 vials is about 250-300K worth of medication.

It isn't about downrange energy. Lots of cartridges are capable of delivering a lot of it at 300 or 400 yards. It's about the probability of a meaningful error creeping in. A 3 MoA error (for whatever reason) at 50 yards is 1.5" off POA - that isn't a meaningful error because that's still in...

I should've also added "the ethics of a non-fatal wound in war are vastly different than the ethics of wounding a wild animal, especially a wild animal which is fully capable and willing to kill you (and your PH/guide) as a return favor." Risking my PH's life because I believe I'm Carlos...

I won't speak for him, but for myself, I was thinking more along the lines of a 7.62x51 or 338 LM, fired from something like an M24 or M24A3. A wound from one of those is often vastly different than one from a 5.56.

The goal, especially for animals with platter-sized hooves or lots of fangs and claws all of which can cover 200 yards in 6 or 7 seconds, is to give yourself the highest probability of a clean, one-shot kill and ensure the animal expires with as little suffering as possible. There is no...

Not really. Kevin Robertson, a much respected and retired veterinarian and PH from Zimbabwe asserts with decades of experience that about 2400 fps is the ideal MV for 300 gr caliber .375 bullets, as well as 286 gr caliber .366 bullets. A blogger/podcaster I follow (who's interviewed KR 5 or 6...

@Cally - your 6.5x55 is fine. @Shootist43 and @Art Lambart II have had great success with the 130 gr monos in theirs, I prefer Woodleigh 160 gr, or Norma or Lapua 156 gr. MV of 2400 to 2500 and they'll strike like Thor's hammer. I limit my shots to no farther than about 200 yards with those...

Dude, this comment definitely wins the interwebs for the week, maybe even the year! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

I'm with you on that, except my big bore is a 404 Jeff. It has the added benefit of a SS barrel and an all-weather stock. Not really the classic African look, but when you're a lefty, you buy what the lefty gods offer when it becomes available for purchase. Haven't hunted for any great bears...

Only took me a little over 7 years.

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mocking people who assert light only behaves wave-like when you look at it, and particle-like when you don't.

Isn't that Ryan Seacrest? He's The Ghey.

Art, The highest BC bullet in the 286 class is Partition. But for inside 300 yards, that advantage over even the terrible BC of Oryx's .33 just evaporates. Interlock is about halfway between Partition and Oryx. The only bad choice for your pending black bear hunt is the bullet that won't...

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High MV is valuable for one thing, IMO: shooting past 300 yards. Inside that, it just doesn't drastically improve a bullet's killing authority. One thing to think about in your selection - a 375 H&H firing 300 gr bullets will have about the same ballistic arc as a 30-06 firing 200 gr, or a...

So you got the feeding issue straightened out? Glad to hear it, I sorta feel bad for what you and your dad have gone through getting this thing working. I'd have never recommended Zastava if I'd have had the same issues you guys have. As far as ammo for Canadian black bear over bait, I think...

There's nothing wrong with cup-and-cores, particularly for light, thin-skinned game where impact velocity is closer to 2500 fps than it is to 3k fps. They'll probably always shed some mass even at the more modest impact velocities, but not enough to make any practical difference.

Some outfitters love them, some don't want them in camp. Was listening to a Joseph von Benedikt podcast about an upcoming buff hunt in Moz some time this summer. The outfitter doesn't want anyone to bring TSX because of the risk of overpenetration. His words were to the effect of "if you...

I wish it were still on the floor. The hand lever can be a challenge to actuate in a turn.

Well, they are on Westheimer inside the Loop. That's where the big money resides in Houston.

Yeah, kinda no fun buying shoes. Been wearing this size since around 1982 or 1983. Off the rack boots are Nocona or Justin. Dress shoes are J&M or Bostonian. Athletic shoes are Puma or Reebok. I suppose things might have changed since I last bought boots or dress shoes. I tend to hang on...

Called them, they're well north of my budget, almost $4k per pair.

Africa, Trophy Pro SA did the work.