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Hello All; I was planning a cow moose hunt into Canada, but after reading the USDA website, it says that I can only bring in 50 lbs of meat..........if this is the case, then there is no point in my spending the money for the hunt. I then saw on the CBP website that I could bring in the...

Outfitter inquiry..... Does anyone have any experience with an outfitter called "Mount Carmel Safaris" owned and operated by an Andries Van Zyl in the Northern Cape? Please shoot me a PM if you don't wish to openly post here.......asking for a friend who has a chance to hunt with them. Thanks.

Just wondering if it was allowed, either entering SA or entering back in the States. Each hunter has 1 rifle, but it is a double rifle case. Or would the owner of each rifle have to have their own seperate case? Forgive me if it seems like a stupid question, but with all the changes going on...

Has anyone here used the Speer 235 grain sp bullet in their .375 H&H for smaller game? I bought some to try....have 5-6 different powders to work with and hopefully I will find an accurate load. Just wondering what velocities these perform best at......looking for something to use for...

Hello all; First, a little back story: about 4 years ago, I encouraged a friend to join me on a deer hunt to North Carolina. It was his first out of state/guided hunt, and he was quite excited about it. I thought I had done my homework: checked references, searched for negative comments...

I’ve always enjoyed handloading, and testing my handloads in various ways, such as accuracy & expansion. Most of my testing to date has been with handguns and handgun loads, both for defensive purposes & for hunting. I do hope to some day return to Africa; I would really like to hunt cape...

....for the .375 H&H and the .338 Win. Magnum? I have both calibers, and will eventually sell off one of them. I would like to make them as versatile as possible; I've done a lot of cast bullet testing with the .338 and so far have come up empty with an accurate load. I've messed around with...

Hello; Just curious as to how many who have hunted Africa have "gone it alone", i.e. traveled without a companion of some sort? When I went to Africa in 2014 I was suppose to go with a friend who likes to hunt. He then asked about bringing the wives, which I didn't have a problem with. So...

For those who may not know, this past Saturday (5/28), a 4 year old child breached the security fence and fell into the moat at the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo. A 17 year old male gorilla, named "Harambe", went after the child. There is video on line of the gorilla running, dragging...

I've never had much desire to hunt the "big five", for personal reasons.....don't have anything against others doing it, just never really wanted to do it myself. The one exception is cape buffalo......There is one critter I think I wouldn't mind taking. With the pressure that the antis are...

All the rugs, pillows, chairs, wall hangings are cool and quite beautiful, but I'm wondering if anyone has had their hides tanned into leather and made into more "practical" items. I used to work with a surgeon who claimed to have a pair of boots made from cape buffalo hide and he said that...

Just curious........for those that reload, why & how did you start reloading? I became interested because I wanted to "shoot more" and "spend less", although I probably ended up spending more because I shot more;) I started reloading at the age of 16. I started metallic reloading using the...

Just curious as to what the "common wisdom" is on minimum cartridges for zebra? Would a 6.6x55 Swede with premium bullets be considered too light? Thanks in advance.............

I'm just curious as to whether or not there is a "penalty" on cull hunts if you don't take all the animals that you are assigned, i.e. if you are suppose to harvest 10 impala, but only take 8 in the time you are in Africa. Just wondering and wasn't sure.......thought about taking an open...

Well, after 50+ years of living in suburban Detroit, I've decided to move.....to Lexington, KY. My company had a position open, and I went and interviewed last week and I've decided to accept their offer. I start on 11/23. The wife will remain here until she can secure a position and we can...

Two of the best holsters I have are made out of horse hide, which I understand is almost impossible to come by any more for any reasonable price. I was wondering if anyone out there has used zebra hide as a substitute for horsehide........seems it might make a practical substitute and also a...

Well, I bought some Swift A frame bullets in .375 caliber to try in my .375 H&H........now I find out that I have to have "special" data to reload these silly things? Something about pressures spiking, etc., and you can't just use "regular" reloading data, as I have with my other...

Anyone here ever do/try it? Planning on doing it......my expansion material will be water soaked telephone books (their cheap and readily available)......I'm just wondering what/if there is a 'standard' range for testing loads....either for PG or DG.....50 yards? 1oo yards? farther? Also...

I've been working up loads for my .375 H&H.......found a good one using 3oo grain Nosler partitions, but then found out that most folks don't like using the Nosler partitions on cape buffalo......so, back to the drawing board. After reading and rereading a thread here on AH, I decided to try...

.....in my youth. In elementary school, I learned about American history, some European history, and Australia (why Australia, as opposed to somewhere else, I'll never know). In high school, I had several other choices, and being a history buff, I took most of what my school system had to...

Earlier this year there was a big SNAFU re: no longer being allowed just a form 4457 to export/import firearms, and instead one now needed a whole bunch of other govt. bullshit to get firearms to foreign countries for hunting purposes......something along the lines of having to register as a...

I found this to be absolutely INCREDIBLE!!!! Quite interesting to hear the science behind it......but I don't think I'd want to be a human guinea pig! Esp. if there is a risk of anaphilaxis............although that is probably more treatable than trying to treat the neurotoxins!

stumbled across a facebook page saying "Boycott Jimmy John's...HE is an ANIMAL killer" First off, does anyone know if this is true? I think that they are reffering to the C.E.O. ( I don't know his name....I just browsed the site, and in usual antihunting fashion, it was just a whirlwind of...

With re: to the "Cecil" debacle. I have NEVER seen such a shit storm via one incident (with the exception of 9/11), and I know that social media has played a major part in this issue going viral. However, now that some time has passed & I am less emotional about the incident (i.e. just sitting...

Once again, some truly warped and disturbed minds have come here to post negative comments on Ian Gibsons memorial thread..........one particularly disturbed individual posted something like 19 times on the same thread in a span of a few minutes........truly sick and twisted.; too bad Obamacare...

Not sure if this is the right place to put this.......but here goes. My circa late 1970's Evinrude outboard is now starting to cost me more and more money each season.....it's currently in the shop (again), this time with a pull starter issue. In the past, its been with difficulty to start...

Do any of you do expansion or penetration testing of your rounds (either factory or handload) prior to hunting with them? If so, what do you use as a testing media, and how far away are you placing it from your rifle? I've never tested my centerfire rifles; I have tested my handguns (both...

Hello all; I'm curious as to what some of you have done with the baboons you have taken.......skull mounts? Half mounts? full body mounts? Poses? I would like some ideas, please...... BTW: I'm not really crazy about having them turned into toilet paper holders, wine bottle holders...

I've been looking for a way to make a moving target to simulate game shots. I stumbled across this and thought it a bit "cool":cool: I've been trying to concoct something similar; I don't have access to the rail system or an ATV. This set up is pretty neat, though......................(y)

Which North American big game animal would YOU most like to hunt? I'm curious as to what species those who hunt primarily overseas find interesting/attractive and why. Consider that money is not an object, and if you have a "subspecies" (such as couse deer or black tail deer, or Roosevelt elk...

I was given a handful of cast lead bullets in .375, and I would like to try and find a load for my .375 H&H that would duplicate (or surpass) .38-55 ballistics for hunting deer/hog. I have a lot of data using pistol powders (most of it obsolete), and if possible, would like to load it with...

Probably been addressed before, but here goes............ Bought a .375 H&h earlier this year.....took it out (without a scope) and shot with iron sights; no problems...ran two boxes of factory loads through it with no pain, etc. Took the rifle out today after mounting a scope on it......after...

Has anyone here made their own gun stocks? I have a nice piece of walnut blank that has just been sitting in the corner of the basement for the past 20+ years, and since I just found out that I will be spending even more time "on call" for the hospital:mad:, I figure it might make a decent...

Went to the range today to test some various handloads, and things went kinda south, so I didn't get to do all the shooting/testing I wanted. But I got to thinking between target checks.........what makes a load "accurate" enough to be considered a good hunting load? I know we all want that...

I guess some of us got an email/P.M. from someone named "Fiona"(it was a scam; don't open anything if you did)......I feel slighted, as I was not one of the lucky ones. At any rate, for you lucky dogs who did get contacted, I've found her for you!:ROFLMAO: No, no need to thank me...

.....oh, where, oh where should it be? This is something that I anguished over for quite some time, even up to the point where I had to decide to have them either done in S.A. or have dip/pack done. I just received my mounts back today from my trip last summer.....about a 10 month turn around...

Just curious. Which of AH's members reload, and why do you reload? I mean....you probably don't shoot that many .375 Ruger, 416 Remington, .300 weatherby, etc. to make it fiscally viable (or maybe you do?).....at least, not in today's climate. When I first started reloading, back in the...

An old man was sitting on his porch, as he had done day in and day out for the past several years. One morning a young kid came walking down the street, with something in his hands. "Whatcha got there?" asked the old man. "Chicken wire!" replied the kid. "What are you going to do with it?"...

....and the truth shall set you free!!!

With all the hullabaloo over the taking of a black rhino in Namibia by a sport hunter, I was reminded of seeing a TV program (documentary? I can't remember) on conserving rhinos, and one group (I believe they were hunters/sportsmen) were trying to bring captured rhinos here to the States (it...

I realize that these are mostly taken as targets of opportunity, but would a .223 Remington shooting a heavier (60 grain plus) bullet be considered adequate to humanely take a chacma baboon?

O.K., we've seen the photos of great hunts & safaris from the past, and we're starting to see photos & reports from this seasons safaris starting to come in, and they are all great and wonderful and we all love to read them and live vicariously through fellow members. Now......what was the...

I know that most outfitters/P.H.s will supply you with shotshells if you are going to S.A. for some bird hunting, but are you allowed t0 bring your own shells, if you wish? I know that there are weight restrictions, etc. from the airlines as to how much one can bring, but I was wondering if I...

For those of you who use a .375 caliber rifle for plains game, what bullet weight do you prefer, and why.......not so much concerned with manufacturer or type of bullet at this point (this will come along later with reload testing), just the weight at this point......I see bullets ranging from...

....oft go awry! I had thought about borrowing a P.H.s .375 if I ever decided to go on a cape buffalo hunt......and that was my "final" decision on this thread: http://www.africahunting.com/threads/to-buy-or-borrow-a-rifle.21314/ Well.................plans change.:unsure: I found a...

Hi all; Just curious as to what the "common wisdom" is for shot sizes (and payloads) for African birds......do you typically use just one size ("one size fits all"), or do you go up a few sizes as the birds get larger? Also, I'm curious as to what payload (1 oz, 1 1/8 oz, etc) is used for...

I'm in the process of buying a .375 H&H, and I wish to put a Leupold Vx2 1x4 power scope on it. The rifle (it's used) already comes with bases, so I currently am planning to use them (they appear to be Weaver style bases). I plan on using these rings...

Damn Labradors will eat anything!!! While on the 'busy' side of town:

I'm interested in what bullet (i.e. manufacturer/weight/style..FMJ, SP, etc) you prefer out of a .375 H&H for hunting cape buffalo. While I am interested in everyone's opinion (who has one......an opinion, that is;)), as am particularly interested in P.H.'s and those who guide for cape buffalo...

I've seen that there are a few outfitters (both on AH and elsewhere) that offer "cull hunt" packages. As someone has pointed out, this might be a great way for someone to go hunting who doesn't want to put heads on the wall, or already has heads on the wall and little wall space left. I have a...