The Resilience Of A Gaur

[jeff]

Another great story and a exciting adventure. The Win 458 got a bad reputation back then due to poor bullets and maybe your friends ammo was junk also.

 

[Major Khan]

Another great story and a exciting adventure. The Win 458 got a bad reputation back then due to poor bullets and maybe your friends ammo was junk also.

Jeff , Tobin always used to use .423 Mauser ammunition from the company , RWS . It was a German company , l believe . Thank you so much for being so appreciative .

 

[grand veneur]

Jeff , Tobin always used to use .423 Mauser ammunition from the company , RWS . It was a German company , l believe . Thank you so much for being so appreciative .

It is !

...but has stopped the production of cartridges caliber 10.75x68 in the early nineties.


https://rws-munition.de/

 

[Major Khan]

It is !

...but has stopped the production of cartridges caliber 10.75x68 in the early nineties.

https://rws-munition.de/

That makes a great deal of sense , Kurpfalzjager. The last time Tobin purchased ammunition for the .423 Mauser was in 1997.

 

[grand veneur]

You can still buy cartridges from RWS , but they are old stocks and are becoming rarer. There are only small factories that produce this ammunition nowadays in Germany. Is a expensive ammo.

 

[MAdcox]

Thak you for sharing you and your friends story. Great read.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

That makes a great deal of sense , Kurpfalzjager. The last time Tobin purchased ammunition for the .423 Mauser was in 1997.

Out of curiosity, Poton, did Tobin hunt or guide hunts in Bangladesh after the war or did he go back to America?

 

[Major Khan]

Out of curiosity, Poton, did Tobin hunt or guide hunts in Bangladesh after the war or did he go back to America?

Tobin went back to Wisconsin in 1972 , Master Smith . However , he would come to visit me once every 2 years. I would go to visit him and his family in America once every year.

 

[Major Khan]

Thak you for sharing you and your friends story. Great read.

Thank you so much for enjoying these old accounts.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

Thanks for explaining, it’s sounds like you two were good friends.

 

[Major Khan]

Thanks for explaining, it’s sounds like you two were good friends.

He was my best friend and more like an elder brother than a friend . I never grew up seeing my parents , so my maternal grandfather , Tobin and my girl friend ( from 1966 onwards ) were the closest people to me .
He made me a better human being in every way possible and paid for my facial surgery in America after the Liberation War in 1971 . That surgery cost a great deal of money and he never let me repay him ever . If it was not for the support of Tobin and his wife , l would have committed suicide in 1972 , Master Smith . He was a true friend .