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This is mostly for Colorado members but others might be interested in it There is a bill in the Colorado Legislature that requires firearm owners to purchase liability insurance on their firearms, just encase someone gets shot with one, it is HB24-1270 https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1270...

Things are getting interesting on the forum here. While typing a reply my cursor is taking on a life of it's own. It is jumping all over the place and moving to the far left. It is only happening on this forum. If you ever saw the old joke called the "drunk mouse" it appears that is what...

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Well, now you not only have to deal with a supply issue you are also going to be paying more for your factory ammo next year. Like always if you see it now you better buy it...

Here is a picture of the auction tag winner and his Antelope Island mule deer in Utah. His bid was $500,000 for the tag, there is still a Utah resident hunter out there that has the same tag that he got through the draw process. All I can say is that is one bunch of sandwiches from JJ's...

Is the site way slow for others? It has been taking a very long time to load pages on a computer and next to impossible on a phone.

My crate arrived this morning and I was like a kid on Christmas morning. After letting the mounts air out in my garage for a few days I'll give them their place of honor inside.

My crate from last years hunt should be here in a few days and I'm pretty sure that my blue wildebeests horns will be off of the mount. I was wondering what type of adhesive to use to attach them so that they stay. I've done some reading and the type of adhesive has ranged from super glue to...

I have a friend who is restoring his Grandfathers old 30-06 from the 1960's or so and has a question on the scope mount and rings. I have seen that type of rings before but I can't for the life of me remember just what they are. Here are some pictures of it if any of you can help us out.

I have a friend who was sent over to Denmark for a couple of weeks for work. The person that he was doing the work for had roebuck on his property and allowed him to go hunt one, lucky guy. He managed to shoot one and now is back in the US. Does anyone know what the requirements are for...

It is always nice when a neighbor comes over prepared https://freerangeamerican.us/shooting-kodiak-bear-in-house/

My nephew purchased a Browning X-Bolt in 7mm-08 a few years ago for his boy, This year after letting it sit in the safe for a few years he took it out and down to the range he went with it for a upcoming pronghorn hunt in Wyoming. The problem was that he couldn't get it to group shooting a...

I’ll start with telling the rest of you that if you are planning on loosing weight on your safari forget booking with Frontier. Their food is out of this world and there is lots of it. Starting with breakfast, then lunch, and finally dinner. You can eat like a king. Now onto my hunt. The...

So what can we get away with as far as having to wearing a mask in Joberg as we pass through to Port Elizabeth? Will a buff work or is something else needed? I getting my packing down for my flight out on next Tuesday for my hunt in the Eastern Cape.

Came across this article on another forum. They want you to have a license to purchase reloading materials and manuals. https://sifa.net.au/wa-proposes-new-firearm-laws-that-will-have-major-unintended-consequences/

I've been looking around for a rifle shell carrier that will clip onto a belt rather than loops that the belt goes through. My problem is that I am coming up with a big fat zero. If need be I'll use one of the standard ones but has anyone seen or know of on that clips onto a belt?

Quick question here. I have some minor pains in my feet and have been using Hempvana to relieve it. While the pain doesn't go completely away it is diminished. So do you think that I would be safe bringing a jar into South Africa to use or should I just leave it at home. There is another...

I have a friend who is looking for a #1 in 300 Weatherby, but a 300 Winchester is also a possible where he can re-chamber it to the Weatherby round. I'm pretty sure that the Weatherby option would be a unicorn hunt but there should be a number of Winchesters out there.

I have a Burris FastFire 3 8 MOA Red Dot Reflex Sight with a Picatinny Mount for sale. I have used it for a few years on a Beretta 96 and decided to go a new direction as far as sights. I will also include the mount for the Beretta 92/96. Installation is fairly easy on the Beretta, the...

For my upcoming trip next year I need to pick up a soft gun case that won't take up much room in my hard rifle case. I fowled up on my first trip and didn't bring one and my PH was a little bit perturbed at me because I didn't have one for out excursion off of the outfitters property. I...

Well, a few years ago I loaded up a lot of .340 Weatherby round with the 225 grain Barnes TSX bullets and I decided that I wanted to just switch them over to the rest of the 225 grain TTSX bullets that I have. So I pulled out the old hammer type inertia puller and went to work beating them on a...

After reading the thread on Emirates and alcohol I saw this on Fox News web site. https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-years-dubai-prison-pot-found-in-urine In short a person was hospitalized in Dubai and the urine test came back with traces of MJ in it.

A friend asked me about going back to South Africa and doing a hunt for a great warthog and perhaps just a couple other animals. I hunted the area around a hour north of Port Elizabeth the first time and while there were warthogs available most of the areas were too rocky to allow them to get...

I came across this picture and it is quite unique for a mount. I think that for a African plains game animal you might need to find the rear end off of a Toyota

It's been a couple of weeks but I have been chasing elk in Utah for the last one or so but got to a computer to post up my hunt on Monroe Mountain in Utah. We started up seeing nothing but big bull elk, this mountain area is famous for the Spider Bull and there are some elk up there that are...

I picked up my coues deer mount that I shot way back in 2017 when I was down in Arizona javelina hunting this last week. He is finally home.

Cleaning out my reloading supplies and I came upon some Barnes .338 185gr XBT bullets. These are the molly coated Barnes X bullets which when loaded will give you around 200fps more velosity than their plain copper X bullets. I had them for my .340 Weatherby and they were loaded up to 3350fps...

Well folks here it is. This was the hunt that almost wasn't. Last year on this exact day December 30th we had spotted a very nice coues deer buck about 2 miles away and the stalk was started. We had crawled the last 50 or so yards to get into position and had set the rifle up to bag me...

I have finally completed my circle that started over 2 years ago when I booked my first safari. Here are the finished mounts, I do need to get a better photo of the kudu. The wall isn't too bad for a room with only a 7' ceiling. More than likely I will still be moving them around until I...

Quite interesting http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/06/03/wounded-elephant-walks-up-to-safari-lodge-to-get-help-after-being-shot-by-poachers.html

Here is a question for those of you that live across the pond that have come over here to the US to hunt. What did you do in the states that require you to have a hunter education card before you purchase a license? This question came up on another forum that I am on and the hunter is from...

Well I got tired of just sitting around the house plowing snow so I headed to Arizona to hunt a javelina. While they are not a brush pig, elk, kudu, or a lot of other animals they are a worthy quarry. Here is the story: We stated out this year as usual. A long drive from Colorado down to...

I have a friend that is going to be in Joberg on a work assignment this coming summer at least he hopes that he is going to be over there. He was wondering just what the requirements would be for him to just go shoot a warthog during the trip. The area that he will be working at is about 1...

OK, here is a stupid question. On the TSA locks I have read where you can tell that it was unlocked by TSA when you retrieve your luggage. I was wondering just how do you tell? Do they put a tag on it or is there something that pops out on the lock where you can tell?

After my hunt this last May I saw some inner horns from a Kudu that had been polished and thought that they looked very unique. So I had my taxidermist in South Africa polish mine. Now I need to figure out a great way to display them. When I first saw some of them the owner just had them...

Well, the other day my trophies arrived at my taxidermist shop in a crate. They were shot in May of this year, dropped off at Hunter and Collectors in Port Elizabeth the first of June and arrived here in the states a couple of weeks ago. Then once they were cleared by the Feds they were...

All I can say about my first safari experience in SA is WOW what a great time and hunts. I'll forgo the flight experience, firearm permits, flight transfers, and the rest of my travels since you all do it and know what it is like but I will say that I had zero problems other than that 15 hour...

I have been looking at the US Customs web site but I was wondering just what kind of trinkets or items that you can bring back to the US without a hassle. I have read where some have problems with one thing that is purchased in a store but if you purchase the same thing in a SA airport they...

Since the safari that I am going on will be my first along with the other hunters in my group I was wondering just what service others have used to send in their SAPS 520 forms for a preapproved firearm permit? I was just informed today that there is a postal strike going on in SA and since I...

OK, I'm a newbe and perhaps this is the ultimate newbe question about coming home but I got to ask it and I am sure that there are some on here that are wondering the same thing. So please bear with me and be gentle. On my way home I'll be flying through Washington Dulles airport and will...

I'll be going on my first hunt in South Africa this coming May and will be looking for a hotel for the day that I arrive and the day before I leave the country. Could any of you recommend a good hotel? I don't need a 5 star one but a nice place to get some rest and a good meal after my...

I am about to purchase my air fair from Denver, Colorado to Port Elizabeth SA for my hunt coming up in May. From the looks of it the easiest would be to book though South African Airlines all the way from start to finish. One of my hunting partners was thinking about flying Delta out of Denver...

Hi folks, I'm in the process of planning my first hunting trip to South Africa the Port Elizabeth area to be a little more specific. Going over some of the suggestions on this site has given me a lot of insight on what I need to get arranged before I head out with my hunting partners this...