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What will be the Result of Banning The Sustainable Use of a Country's Renewable Natural Resources? In reality, this is what were are talking about.

It's worth remembering criticism of idiotic killing is not new - Denys Finch Hatton wrote several article for the Times of London about some of the crap going on - this was 1929.

Yup. Meateater’s goal is to be a 100 million dollar company. They are heavily financed by The Chernin Group - essentially they are getting people interested in the outdoors to sell them stuff. That is a far cry from when rinella wrote his first book.

Agree. I have long been against the 'as long as its legal' trope. You carry your ethics with you - and ethics should always be well above the law. The law dictates the lowest acceptable form of behaviour, not the highest form of ethical behaviour. We should always be concerned with the latter...

My understanding is Makris, via his advertising agency and the NRA were simply passing money back and forth and having a good time on everyone else's dime.

a very long time ago I worked at an outdoor store in Idaho and we had the occasional celebrity hunter come in and the fawning and red carpeting for these people was unreal - and yes, I’m surprised they could get in the door with such inflated egos. One thing to consider too is that things show...

I think you'd be better off paying a lot of money and hunt with Phil Shoemaker. He's not on TV, unless a YouTube interview counts. I know Steve's brother Matt - I'd love to hunt with him, but I ain't paying for it... and it would never be televised... ;-)

very cool. are you recording the conversations?

Welcome back.

Duane Wiebe has probably made one.

Oh my.

Greeting from Idaho! Had the pleasure of visiting Northern Sweden many years ago - Lulea and Pitea to visit a musician friend of mine. Lovely place and people! Are you familiar with Ronnie Eriksson or Ramblin’ Minds?

This is precisely what I shoot in mine and the groups are that good or a skosh better. But I sympathize with the OP - I’ve thought of making it into something else…but I’m growing tired of tinkering for minimal gains.

I was going to mention this..over the years I’ve heard of many people doing this same thing with similar results. The published FPS of a lot of the old stuff was ambitious at best.

How was it made into a 300 H&H? What did it start life as?

When i see a long serial number like that with NO G, I think assembled in Portugal.

damn neat. never heard of them

Can I ask which base you are using? Weaver?

I’ve seen a really lovely Echols 450 on an FZH with a peep. Others with RMRs. Either seem like the right way to go.

Welcome @Cherokeetracker from an Osage ;-) This is a great place to hang out.

Echols designed and is building his new LX-1 action for his Legend and Classic rifles. A magnificent ‘new’ CRF. He is fully in the game. But they ain’t cheap…

Wow. That elephant followed for a very long time. Very sad.

same here - I never really considered myself a birder, but 11 days in Kenya cured me of that. The birdlife there was unbelievable.

I can't think of many things that enhance being in the outdoors, for any reason, more than a good set of binos. Waterfalls to waterbuck, moose to mice, falcons to flowers... I've gawked at all of them through binos.

That’s interesting to see you used a cup point on elephant. Looks like it did exactly what it was supposed to. Well done.

I have heard 'selective' hunting here and there. It is still differentiated and not as strong as just hunting, in my book. I was talking with a non-hunter co-worker once who used the phrase trophy hunting once, and I asked her to define it. She used the common definition. I told her legal...

That's my style of double - lovely. I have a friend who has a very similar one to that in 450 NE. Enjoy it.

I know Woodleigh talked to Reloading International at SHOT and I hope they can make a deal soon.

HA! That is EXACTLY what our friend told us. Can't tell you how many times we've sat down and I've looked around and seen no other white people and said, "This is gonna be good." Usually the sign of a good pho shop as well. We miss those restaurants big time.

This is why, when I went to Kenya, I insisted we drive everywhere instead of fly.... you can't learn a country from the air. I loved every one of those 1500kms and your wife reminds me of our very good friend who still lives in Seattle - she's Chinese but grew up in Malaysia. She is our...

Interested to see the list/prices.

Wow. That’s cool. Classy…

Many years ago I picked up 88 Barnes 450gr FN solids for ..50c a piece. Never knew what kind of bargain I got ;-)

I’ve seen pics of a 450 FN Barnes that went from a cow’s forehead to the root of her tail.

Very cool Express rifles... they were the first time as a young catalog ogler I had ever heard of the word 'Circassian.' Fast forward 40 years and I was installing a phone system in a historic house in Seattle and noticed all the interior exposed timbers... you guessed it, ALL circassian...

This is also on my list to get - looks great. If you don’t mind spending a little money, get Tony Seth-Smith’s For the Honour of a Hunter. That is a remarkable book

I’ve gotten an absurd number of books off of eBay and it’s the first place I look.

Jim Corbett had special disdain for people who hunted over water. I won’t do it, nor shoot from a truck.

How has that Seiko 5 treated you accuracy-wise? Staying on time pretty well? I like the simplicity of those watches. I currently wear an old Swiss Army watch and love it to death but I also wish it was an automatic.

Exactly. When we try to defend a term/activity that THEY define, we are conceding the definition to them. When done properly and sustainably, we are just hunting. Whether if it’s in the UK, America, or anywhere in Africa.

To see the difference, go back and read pages 2-3 but use “hunting” and not “trophy hunting”. You have a much more powerful and defensible position. P

A modest proposal: abandon the term “trophy hunting” completely, now and forever. It is a rhetorically charged term that instantly conjures negative images of white hunters with their foot on a dead animal, whose head will be cut off and the body left to rot. You might not think it...

I think you are spot-on here. The life of those last molars are highly dependent on what they are eating.

Undertsand i am no elephant hunter, and if I were, I would only hunt one - here are the criteria: Worn through the 6th molar No hair on his tail Deep, deep temples Spine is very prominent. His dung looks like haystacks Head looks oversized due to body mass loss He is located in an area far, far...

His 6th set of molars are ground flat...

I got interested in hunting as a kid because of Fred Bear. Everything he did seemed like an adventure and adventurer spoke to me very deeply - it still does. I've never had the time, money, nor opportunity to become a quantity or 'trophy' hunter. I've never felt disappointed because I walked...

An interesting comment... I read a book once about wildlife management in Kenya and one of the comments he made was that the proliferation of the local NGOs has created a subculture of relative wealth that would vanish if the 'problems' that they were working on were actually solved... so in...

Yes - CRF - I have CRFs in 5, 6, and 7-digit G-Series rifles. I'd love to find a rifle like this...

Trust me, it is very ambitious as I am working on a similar publishing project and the details on how this is accomplished is, let’s say, a royal pain. In point of fact a few years ago I was in contact with his old editor regarding rights to several of his books. I can’t go into details but I...

Part of the problem is “who is telling the story?” Unless someone puts money on the table to tell a full story as you have a via a medium that is accessible, is approachable, and above all, tells a story about people and a landscape, those fighting against us will ALWAYS be the ones to tell the...