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Africa Sky also has a nice pool, but it's still a little cool in August to take advantage of it.

Ermmm...July in RSA is their peak winter

I ordered some 175 gr SS for my 280 AI directly from North Fork on Monday, they were in my mail box today. Can't wait to test these, then take the missus back to @Limcroma Safaris so she can get her zebra. She says she *only* wants a zebra. But if you give a moose a muffin, pretty soon he's...

In Jo'burg, there won't be much for them to do safely outside the confines of Africa Sky anyway. And besides, they'll either be sleeping or playing on their cell phones. They won't care.

You need to be really careful on bringing reloading components to RSA. I was told by my outfitter that I'd need a license, from SAPS I'd imagine, to buy brass, powder, or primers; but not to buy projectiles. So you're probably safe bringing in bullets.

Man I love old jarheads. Welcome aboard!!! PS - you ain't too old or too blind to go to Africa.

Nights in Jo'burg, even now, are going to be chilly. Pour yourself an adult beverage, open a book, and sit in front of the wood-burning stove for a relaxing evening.

Having just been there 2 weeks ago...stay the night at Africa Sky, and enjoy the pool, beverages, food, and hospitality.

Full transparency - I absolutely despise UA and Delta. They have a history with SAPS and with hunters. The missus and I just hunted Limpopo the back half of August, we just got back to Houston a week ago. My best friend flew UA through EWR. He and a number of other hunters arrived at JNB to...

All Trump has to do at the debate is channel Tulsi Gabbard. Harris is already literally the tyrant all the left is worried Trump will become.

Crap, I was confusing that with Rush's 2112.

Bad ideas I can live with. We all make exceptionally stupid decisions at times, look back on them and ask ourselves "WTF is I even thinking there???" Milley's utterances were so patently absurd that they have to be dishonest - the alternative is that he actually believes that crap. The US...

IDK. Would Geddy Lee agree with that? Maybe. ;)

Any word on 9.3x62, or did it already come and go when I was in RSA the entire back half of August?

As the resident cybersecurity pro on this forum, new guys (with fewer than 5 or 10 posts) trying to sell things raises alarm bells with everybody. We don't have a lot of scammers show up here, but still far too many of them; and most of the stuff sold here via the classifieds is of fairly high...

Based on our public and private convos, I hope you recall I hold you and your opinions in high esteem. My use of "amigo" was not intended sarcastically. It's no secret that females are held to a different standard of physical fitness than men are. Being the very large bureaucracy that it is...

I don't know, amigo. She checks the right boxes. It's as easy for me to imagine she's as qualified for what she's doing, and earned all her awards much the same way as the 2 female soldiers actually having "passed" Ranger school a couple years ago. It'd be easier to eat a Vaseline sandwich...

Dear God, another "270 is a flat shooter." Every modern bottle neck cartridge is "flat shooting" out to around 300 yards. And they'll all do something a 270 won't do: shoot bullets heavier than 160 grains. Mass is king when it comes to penetration, not MV. If velocity were everything, we'd...

No "supposedly" about it. If you can even find a steady supply of 160 bullets in .277, that's the longest/heaviest a standard 10 twist 270 Win will stabilize. 170 - 175 gr 7mm is the bees knees.

Fair enough, then. I suspect your factory loads on the 300s probably are in the neighborhood of 2400 fps, maybe even 2375. My 286 gr A Frames at 2475 are a bit flatter than what you're getting. If you know somebody with a chrony, it'd be worth it to put 4 or 5 bullets across it. In all...

Yessir. If a hand loader takes advantage of the generous free bore/leade cut into most X62s, they're every bit the equal of 375. I can't really see the utility in reaching past 250 or 300 yards with something bigger than 338. Inside 300 yards, it'll put the smack down on anything non-DG.

I saw that. Looks like the distances are in meters and you're measuring drop in inches. On the TTSX, for example, if I use 185 yards as a zero, the arc indicated in your notes doesn 't comport with the calculator. But if I use 185 meters (202 yards), then the data line up nicely with a MV of...

It isn't that harmonics, BC, and MV have no effect, it's that there's no practical effect on ballistic arc inside 300 yards. Harmonics affect group size, but once the bullet exits the crown, it's all aerodynamic efficiency and MV. We are talking about 375H&H - I'm assuming a medium barrel...

Logistics isn't a factor, until it is.

KISS is important here. IMO, it's not worth the effort to keep track of the arc on 2 different loads for the same rifle. The energy difference between them is a complete wash, so you're only really dealing with different arcs; and assuming you use the same zero for both, there just isn't a...

Lessons learned from having reloaded 9.3x62 for a few years. The published SAAMI COAL of 3.291" is WAY short for most rifles chambered in X62. I'm shooting 286 gr SAF at a chrony'd 2475 fps, with zero pressure signs - my COAL for that load for my recent trip to Limpopo was 3.325". You could...

There is no practical difference in ballistic arc between a 300 gr A Frame at 2500 fps and a 250 gr TTSX at 2700 fps. Even if you could get the TTSX up to 2800 fps, it just doesn't move the needle to an appreciable degree. With a 200 yard zero A Frame is 2.6" high at 100, 10.5" low at 300 250...

She is Lady MacBeth IRL. Most people consider someone so grossly lacking in ethics unfit to serve. By your own dff, Biden was very clearly not fit to serve in 2020. Why has that become important in 2024, esp when Trump displays none of the signs and symptoms Biden did?

Only problem with this meme is antis, it has been my observation, are rather disinclined towards polite responses like "sir" and whatnot

While I didn't get an exit wound on my buff from my 9.3x62 on about a 30º quartering away, I'm pretty sure the 286 gr A Frame I put in her absolutely obliterated her heart. She gave her death bellow in under 20 seconds. It's difficult to argue against Swift or Barnes.

A 286 gr 9.3 bullet fired at 2450 will have a near identical ballistic arc as a 180 gr 308 Win. That'll easily get you to 300 yards with very little to no holdover adjustment on larger species like gemsbok and wildebeest and still pack quite a thump when it gets there. Hornady SPRP is a great...

I believe it's a dangerous mistake to ascribe stupidity to most of them.

My 9.3 performed like a champ last week on Cape Buffalo, zebra (the one in my avatar), and blue wildebeest. I had to put an anchor in the wildebeest, but 1 shot kills on zebra and the buff. Zebra was probably 130 yards, buff about 30, wildebeest about 70 or 80. My PH had a 375 for backup on...

They were cool. If you're worried about big groups, book at Buffalo Bush camp, the smallest of their 3 camps

Not that I have any great DG experience with only the one buff cow under my belt, but I can work a bolt as fast as anyone, probably faster than most. Seems to me the great value of a double is in dealing with a charge. A 375 in that circumstance is better than nothing, but also a bit less than...

Limcroma has some nice dagga boys, but they also operate in Moz and Zim. I think I have a better chance at a scrum cap bull there than one of their Limpopo properties.

A person who would knowingly send an innocent man to prison for murder is capable of any other calumny.

I use H4350 for my 280AI loads where temps may be 60 - 80° colder than when I'm doing LD

The irony. I reread the first 3 HP books on my way to/from South Africa last week.

They do. PM me and I'll tell you where I buy mine. :D

So I see where PP2000MR has a stability factor of 0.6 That's my powder for both 9.3x62 as well as 404J. I'm not really even a little concerned about my 404J load - at 2250 fps, even at 100° F, it's still a fairly low pressure load. I'm not even overly concerned about the 9.3 loads, even...

At some point, the adults need to step up and tell these overgrown children to pound sand

That a level of bat shit crazy I've not heard of in a long, long time

That's exactly the kind I want!

That's exactly what my PH was telling me last week

Too bad Kruger is so far away. I hear they're years overdue for a big culling of ele.

I am also 5'18". :D :)

@North Fork Technologies - will the 175 gr .284 bullets stabilize in a 9.5 twist?

Totally forgot that we'd taken a few pictures on a timer with Franco and Elvik.

Dang. I guess I had forgotten you were so tall.