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Joined: Jun 2, 2022
Last seen: Jun 19, 2026
Topics: 41 / Replies: 1075
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Re: Quick day hunt

Good news. Thanks for the heads up.

2 years ago
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Re: Quick day hunt

He mentioned some time back that a .277 might be in the works. Will definitely pick up a pack or two to try out if he starts on them.

2 years ago
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Re: Quick day hunt

Great write up, thanks for taking us along. Those SBC bullets are really starting to make a name for themselves. Rudi certainly knows his way around b...

2 years ago
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Re: Loads for .410 - 2 inch shells?

Some more questions:I have decided to use the brass cases, and prepared +- 60 of them. Given that the little shotgun is 100 years old, and that I have...

2 years ago
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Re: What is a practical hunting knife?

Has anybody mentioned that your expensive knife is not to be given to the skinners. They sharpen on concrete slabs etc. I will not supply tissues. I h...

2 years ago
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Re: Best time to hunt on foot?

To be in the bush before it gets light and be in a look out spot as visibility becomes possible is the greatest of feelings and it really works to be ...

2 years ago
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Re: dirty meat and shot placement

if he is doing neck shots from a heli, they use shotguns, shotguns multiple wounds disrupt the nervous system causing death. That said, I think a supe...

2 years ago
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Re: dirty meat and shot placement

In the upper neck area, they go down to stay down. It must have something to do with the shock to the medula oblongata. I wonder if it might have some...

2 years ago
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Re: dirty meat and shot placement

In the upper neck area, they go down to stay down. It must have something to do with the shock to the medula oblongata. I wonder if it might have some...

2 years ago
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Re: What is a practical hunting knife?

If you want a cheap high quality custom made knife you need to find someone inexplicably desperate for money, suitably skilled and equipped or learn h...

2 years ago
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Re: Loads for .410 - 2 inch shells?

Feedback: the 308 Win FL-die works like a charm! Cut back the brass cases to 51mm, anneal them slightly, and form them in the 308 die. They fit tightl...

2 years ago
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Re: What is a practical hunting knife?

Ds J rightly calls out the need for the heat treating to be done right. On the course I did years ago the smith showed me a bucket full of knives with...

2 years ago
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Re: What is a practical hunting knife?

I've become a big fan of micarta type materials for handle scales. It's grippy as hell without needing to be excessively rough. Really easy ...

2 years ago
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Re: Emperial sizes on dies

How about using a Swedish nut rounder?Nah, this is a job for a 9 inch Kalahari Nut Lathe.That's a new one for me.  ;D  Adjusting spanne...

2 years ago
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Re: Emperial sizes on dies

How about using a Swedish nut rounder?Nah, this is a job for a 9 inch Kalahari Nut Lathe.

2 years ago
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