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    Your own double rifle

    OK here’s the thing, when I win the lottery, one of the things I’m going to do is buy a game ranch, and the second is buy you a double rifle of your choice. Because I like you so much I’m also going to offer you a free 12 animal hunt (for non dangerous game) on my ranch. But you can only use...
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    Sexy iron sights and Bush pigs.

    I just picked up another rifle, a No.4Mk1 Enfield in .303 Epps that has been sporterised. It still has the original butt stock but the fore-end has been chopped and trimmed, the original iron sights have been removed and a set of Williams sights fitted to the barrel. I must say it looks quite...
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    Bush baby

    I just picked up another rifle, a No.4Mk1 Enfield in .303 Epps that has been sporterised. It still has the original butt stock but the fore-end has been chopped and trimmed, the original iron sights have been removed and a set of Williams sights fitted to the barrel. I must say it looks quite...
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    Shooting females

    Nice posts guys, Danr55……..actually it’s not just homosapiens females with a rack worth mounting. The Gemsbok cow normally produces bigger trophies than the bull, the horns are more slender (thinner), but are longer. Also the Grey or common Duiker does occasionally produce horned females – more...
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    7,62x39 on game

    Sorry Danr55, but to me the 7,62x39 still has no place in the hunting fields. When out in the bush, I would much prefer to have a 30-30 with 170 grainers in my hands than anything the Russian round has to offer – I don’t consider them ballistically equal – despite what the numbers on paper may...
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    7,62x39 on game

    I have noticed lately a number of people here in South Africa, advocating the use of the 7,62x39 (.30 Russian) on game animals. Some even going so far as to suggest that it is nearly ideal as a bushveld (brush/woods) calibre, for game up to and including Impala/Reedbuck (Warthogs?) – game up to...
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    7,62x39 on game

    I have noticed lately a number of people here in South Africa, advocating the use of the 7,62x39 (.30 Russian) on game animals. Some even going so far as to suggest that it is nearly ideal as a bushveld (brush/woods) calibre, for game up to and including Impala/Reedbuck (Warthogs?) – game up to...
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    Shooting females

    How many of you guys shoot females? (I mean female animals – I know most of us know of at least one real b*#$%h we’d love to shoot, not to mention a certain Saudi extremist !) Is there a still feeling around that it is not ‘cool’ to shoot the females of a species, or has the principles of game...
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    JJHACK?????????????

    Mini Moose Here is some more info that I managed to find. Lesser Kudu are almost entirely confined to East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia through to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda). Weight of a bull is approx. 100kgs (220lbs) – similar to Nyala - and min. entry to Rowland Ward is 27 inches. Horns are...
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    JJHACK?????????????

    Mini Moose The lesser Kudu is much smaller than the Greater Kudu, and as far as I know it's range is limited to East and maybe central Africa. The Greater Kudu is the one we all know and is distributed throughout Africa. Hope this helps.
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    Dispair at wounding

    Well I just returned from my hunting trip – hunting for my own table fare and biltong - and I am not the same man I was when I left. For the first time in nearly 22 years of hunting I have lost an animal, a wounded animal left to die, and I am truly distressed by it. I need some help here guys...
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    Questions - help

    O.K. Guys help me out here, Turkey hunting, what’s the game here. I see in the U.S. magazines that we get out here, adverts and articles on Turkey hunting. Here are my assumptions from the little bit I’ve been able to read: Turkey must have very keen eyesight, hence the need for absolute...
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    Shots that weren't

    Don’t know if this has been done before, but there must be some great ‘missed shot/wrong shot’ stories out there. Let me start. About eight years ago I started handgun hunting with a T/C in 7TCU. On it’s first trip out I came upon a group (sounder?) of Warthogs – a mother with some large piglets...
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    25-06 and 270 - R.I.P.

    Thats why I posted it up guys, thanks for all the comments it gave some fun reading, I don't really want any cartridge to die(even the 270), for me - the more the merrier.
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    25-06 and 270 - R.I.P.

    Friends and myself were discussing the merits of various cartridges, great fun. So with just a little tongue in cheek, here’s what the majority of us suggest: The 6,5-06 should be legitimised and commercialised – Remington/Hornady are you listening ! We should drop the 25-06, which is really...
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