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Sir Samuel Baker wrote an entire book about hunting in Ceylon in the 1840s, which included running amongst herds of elephant and shooting them from powder burn range. That was back when elephants were not really hunted, had no fear of humans, and were abundant. Some of his descriptions are...

Here are the links and the facts in the BB article above: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/08/11/the-full-lyrics-of-kill-the-boer-the-genocidal-chant-defended-by-new-york-times/ https://www.groundup.org.za/article/judge-rules-kill-boer---kill-farmer-not-hate-speech/ I hear you about...

I kind of slightly agree with you, except that facts are facts, no matter how much we don't like them. I encourage you to embrace the facts and not pretend they don't exist. By the way, I am at my remote hunting cabin right now, where I am daily "touching the grass." Yesterday I was flintlock...

I ask because of headlines like this https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2024/01/11/south-africa-kill-the-boer-is-not-genocidal-but-destroy-hamas-is/

Honest question by someone who has not been to South Africa, who has considered going to SA, but who is simply following the weekly news about murdered white farmers, a popular and racist political party devoted to getting all whites out of SA and which advocates the murder of white farmers, and...

Wow, has South Africa become a freak show. The government is full blown racist and pro terrorist. Is it still a safe place for white people to visit and hunt ?

Fab gun

Fabulous, Michael. Very helpful. In fact when I looked up the Model 71 and dangerous game subjects combined, I got a glimpse of your engraved Model 71 in one of the published articles. This post of yours here needs to be an article in American Hunter Magazine (NRA), minus the "ass" stuff, of course.

true hunting

The recoil doesn’t bother my body, because it is a true size XXL, sometimes XXXL in hunting coats, because I layer so much underneath. Some of the layers I can remove at will, others I can’t seem to take off, and they also provide ballast for absorbing recoil. The new 1895 SBL is really well...

Here is what I like about the Ruger Marlin 1895 SBL: High quality stainless steel, excellent open sights, large loop lever, rugged laminate wood, threaded barrel, and rugged construction allowing the use of hot loads. It is extremely accurate. It is an unusually well thought out and executed...

Here is the Lyman black powder manual that shows their lowest power 45-70 loadings:

looks like you had a successful hunt in a beautiful place with a fabulous firearm. i cannot imagine how any normal, healthy human being could accost you or criticize you for anything. i am envious of you

That’s a fabulous gun. I have a WR DR in 577 NE close to same vintage

Dude, bringing receipts! This awesome post is what the confluence of data and field reports looks like. And because the data development part can be so detailed and even complicated, it’s easy to understand why so many of us just fall back on fifty year old data and the fifty year old opinions...

Nice bull, nice double rifle. Can you please tell us a little about it? Looks vintage

the plight of all Alaskans, leavened by your proximity to beautiful wilderness and lots of cool and tasty wildlife

I remember reading a book from that time, where the author talks about areas that had been overhunted and shot out were abandoned between WWI and WWII and when people went back, suddenly there was all the wildlife again, only bigger and more of it than anyone alive could remember

does Selby look skeptical?

monster! just the bosses are gigantic

Looks like an old Italian Carcano, which I think was 6.5mm

apparently mastodons didn't really die out until the 1890s

there are some genuinely huge tusks in there. biggest I ever held were 94 pounds and 109 pounds from an ancient and mean bull killed in 1956

now that is a lot of bush meat

fabulous picture!

pretty intriguing looking firearm ya got there. I am willing to bet that today's experts would never allow a firearm of such questionable parentage and indeterminate rock'em-sock'em power to go on such a killing rampage these days.

Impressive results! Good stuff and very helpful, Tundra Tiger, thank you. I really like seeing where you crimped. CEB gives some directions about crimping this bullet, which is obviously a range determined by which powder is used and how much of it, as well as the weight and composition of the...

So, about those .458" Cutting Edge Bullets 325 grain brass solids propelled by either R7 or IMR4198 or maybe something like 10X or 2015 at about 2,100 fps out of the 1895 SBL within 50-60 yards...I am excited to get down to the actual testing here as soon as hunting and trapping seasons end...

SGT ZIM I am most interested to learn about the lead alloy bullets you shoot out of your Marlin 45-70. I too am unimpressed by the Hornady FTX and I too am a handloader and bullet caster. A good pile of Lyman #2 is at hand, probably destined to be poured into the old 330-grain Gould mold. Is...

what a woman. imagine finding someone like her today, 2024...

sometimes i wonder if people actually read a comment thread, or just throw their old opinion up just because they have an opinion on a subject that they want to share. it happens not just here, this phenomenon happens on every single website whether it's about old cars, heavy equipment, logging...

"Do you like your wife?" "Yes, very much." "I have four wives and I don't like any of them" I say awesome movie that could never be filmed today

Couldn't have said it better meself, Tundra Tiger, and it needed to be said. Thank you. My two cents: Jiminy crickets, some people.....

Thank you thank you thank you to Michael458 and Tundra Tiger here for this incredibly useful discussion. I recently purchased a new Ruger Marlin 1895 SBL in 45-70 strictly for hunting in Alaska and on our bear drives here in PA. The older reloading manuals are of course not up to speed with the...

AARP is a huge anti gun organization. Interesting that a mole here is pushing them

You should not own guns. You are a risk to everyone around you

Quoting AARP about policy is like asking the Nazis if the gas chambers will really work. AARP is a politically partisan arm of one political party and has zero credibility about anything. Zero.

What’s the difference between a “conspiracy theory” and the truth? Today it’s about three months. A tremendous amount of excellent analysis of covid data has been done since mid 2022, and it detonates the establishment narrative. I don’t believe my freedom is a “conspiracy theory” which is a...

Unsure how or why I just received a notice about this thread I don’t recall seeing before. Last comment here appears to be a year ago. I never got a shot for covid, hardly participated in the shamdemic, plandemic, dempanic, whatever and just went about my freedom loving life in rural...

He’s actually a famous long time and now retired AK guide. Very crusty and eccentric, without doubt! He also has tons of record book kills of every species up there. Multiples. And known for being a fussy fanatic. I’ll have to look him up. The real story from that trip was the enormous king...

The pilot took Dan on a scenic air tour of the mountains. I think they got pretty close to Denali and turned around. I think that’s why my friend Dan went with me in the first place. We are still close friends, but that trip just about broke us

That’s what I wrote because it is what I was told. Maybe the guide didn’t like me. Maybe my brain surgeon friend is such a wuss that he whined and spooked, and the guide had to evacuate him out before the bear chased him. Maybe the guide believed I could handle myself (he did say this later on)...

In 2005 I was fortunate to fish for king salmon in Alaska, before the Chinese fishing fleet scooped them all up and ended their spawning run. The day after I caught a 74 pound male that measured over four feet long, I was back in the same area. Then I noticed the guide’s plane was airborne, and...

I don’t hunt Saturday so Sunday hunting is everything to me. Each person should make their own choice on this. It’s ridiculous to have government tell us we can’t do something on a day when literally everything else is permitted.

I went to talk with outfitters, look at RVs and ATVs, but my son just wanted to fondle firearms. Both modern and black powder. So I dutifully tagged along with him, with an intention to return later in the week. Business intervened and I never made it back. But I did spend a day with my boy...

How do people get their custom loaded ammo into Africa? Like for vintage rifles?

The only time I was in Alaska I got bluff charged by a young grizzly because I was hogging his salmon pool. His eyes had all the intelligence an animal would need, totally evaluating me, and at that moment of the stare-down, I realized I had underestimated it. In 2017 I was hunting in the...

Fabulous report, thank you for sharing it. The Rigby rifles are incredible to see. It’s almost a spiritual experience just to see them pictured on safari here, especially in those calibers. (I accidentally hit the post button on the comment above and couldn’t figure out how to edit it.) All the...

Fabulous, thank you