SwampTrooper
AH member
Hello Everyone!
I have been a long time lurker on the site for a few years now but have finally made my own account and would like to say hello. A common story in here, I grew up hunting in the United States (mostly upland wing-shooting) and am now thinking seriously about my first trip to Africa in the next coming years. Hunting in Africa has always been a childhood dream for me as it is probably for a lot of you, and I don’t really know why. It is sort of a calling that I know I just have to do it. I’ll be heading to SA soon for my honeymoon. It’s no hunting trip as the wife to be tolerates my hunting but does not partake herself. But I hope to return soon to target Kudu, Gemsbok, and hopefully a Zebra. If it goes well, I’d like to return for a buffalo cow management hunt (as that is really all I can afford at the moment). I’d need to pick up at least a .375 H&H for that hunt, but one step at a time. I have used this forum to research for years, mostly gunsmithing and gear, and have built this rifle recently as my future plains game rifle in .30-06. I use Winchester Expedition Trophy Long Range in 190 grain which seems to carry enough energy to take down what I am targeting with a correctly placed shot. Please see the picture attached! Its an old Winchester model 70 from the 1970s (I know, just push feed, oh well… that’s why it was cheap) gussied up with a little bit of the African expedition spirit. I pillar bed the stock, glass bed the action, free floated the barrel, fitted a silvers style orange recoil pad, added an express rear sight, chopped the end of the stock, added on the ebony forend, cut the barrel channel in that (pain in the butt with how hard the wood is) and mounted/blued the barrel band. Also using the Leupold QD scope bases because iron sights are always fun for messing around.
So anyway, it’s great to meet you all and here’s to many adventures ahead!
-ST
I have been a long time lurker on the site for a few years now but have finally made my own account and would like to say hello. A common story in here, I grew up hunting in the United States (mostly upland wing-shooting) and am now thinking seriously about my first trip to Africa in the next coming years. Hunting in Africa has always been a childhood dream for me as it is probably for a lot of you, and I don’t really know why. It is sort of a calling that I know I just have to do it. I’ll be heading to SA soon for my honeymoon. It’s no hunting trip as the wife to be tolerates my hunting but does not partake herself. But I hope to return soon to target Kudu, Gemsbok, and hopefully a Zebra. If it goes well, I’d like to return for a buffalo cow management hunt (as that is really all I can afford at the moment). I’d need to pick up at least a .375 H&H for that hunt, but one step at a time. I have used this forum to research for years, mostly gunsmithing and gear, and have built this rifle recently as my future plains game rifle in .30-06. I use Winchester Expedition Trophy Long Range in 190 grain which seems to carry enough energy to take down what I am targeting with a correctly placed shot. Please see the picture attached! Its an old Winchester model 70 from the 1970s (I know, just push feed, oh well… that’s why it was cheap) gussied up with a little bit of the African expedition spirit. I pillar bed the stock, glass bed the action, free floated the barrel, fitted a silvers style orange recoil pad, added an express rear sight, chopped the end of the stock, added on the ebony forend, cut the barrel channel in that (pain in the butt with how hard the wood is) and mounted/blued the barrel band. Also using the Leupold QD scope bases because iron sights are always fun for messing around.
So anyway, it’s great to meet you all and here’s to many adventures ahead!
-ST
