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I simply post this pic to show to the liberal tree huggers that see this person as demi- god, that everybody hunts, it is the most natural thing in the world. Whatever your political view. I present Nelson Mandela http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/yy34/jameswilsontt/image_zps2b83fe4e.jpg...

every now and then i find that i have exhausted all the local excisable knowledge, but thankfully i can then return to the F/line for expert advice. a 6mm 250 is available at a local dealer. the dealer showed me a target on which the rifle shot 5 shots all touching each other at a distance of...

due to the fact that i hunt regularly, i have decided to upgrade to a electronic dispenser scale. two day ago i bought the DPS 3. now my problem is when the scale is finished dispensing , an alarms goes of signaling that the load is ready lets say 43grns. i then remove the load, but if i put...

i am in the process of fitting a new bull barrel 22inch to my 308, with a sound suppressor. i have imported a thumb hole laminated stock from Boyds. i told the gunsmith that i will be shooting 150grn seldom and that i want to shoot 130grn or lighter. due to the fact that this rifle has been in...

is it possible? i am from s-africa and although electronic remote controlled predator callers such as foxpro are common found, the reality is that i dont know or have ever heard of locals using decoys with the callers. now there might be 2 reasons for this. 1- it is not commonly available in...

i have seen many north-american hunting shows that show hunters hunting in severe snow storms. me and my local hunting friends always say that hunting in a snow storm is true dedication to the art of hunting. over here in africa it is only winter for about 3 months. the coldest it gets in my...

in s-africa our local reloading manual doesn't have info on the 250-3000. my father in law has one. i haven't used his rifle much since the ammo has to be imported at a high price. however i recently spoke to a local 250 owner and now i believe there is more to this calibre than i always...

we as hunters often get confronted by people that is anti hunting. i don't know about you guys but my experience about these people is that more often than not they are just misinformed. i have adopted a policy of calm conversation with these people. i like to expose them to some facts that are...

i live in a part of s-africa where shotguns and shotgun related hunting plays second fiddle to all the other kinds of hunting and target shooting. i therefore have limited shotgun related experience. however i was recently exposed to shotguns and related hunting. needless to say i am hooked. so...

some of you might have noticed me asking questions or and help with the 308 i inherited, with regards with accuracy/groupings. to make a long story short : i inherited a 308 build in Austria. the problem with this 308 is amongst other things that it is very light ( lighter than my ,22 bruno...

I dont know if this is a first for the Firing Line but it is a first for me. in june of 08 i received a private message on the Firing Line forum. this happened after i made a post on a topic and Mark from the USA saw i was from S-Africa. he simply asked in the private message if there was...

I need some info on a special rifle and seeing as i have been a member of the Firing line forums for a while i know i can get my answers here. I have in my possession a m1 30 carbine. this rifle used to belong to a friends grand father. The first time I saw this rifle was when his...

does anybody know the smell sense of birds when compared to say hogs and small antelope. i recently build a hide at a cattle feeding post. of my last 6 wart-hogs i have shot i shot 5 in a 100m radius of this post(before building the hide ). the hogs got into the pen and chase the cattle away...

I can get a remington mod 770 new in a local gun shop. it is still old stock and i am satisfied with the price. it comes with what remington calls a "Ready to hunt right out of the box". it has a bushnell 3-9x40. it will be my first synthetic stock as i love wood. it is a 243win. i will be...

After seeing a lot of home-made gadgets that people use when using their rifles, I thought it fun to start a thread where we can show and tell each other about gadgets (home made or bought) that increases your rifles accuracy or that simplifies a hunt. I have added a couple of pictures of some...

for many years the parks board from south-africa has brought the eliphant back from extinction. this has been done with the corporation of goverment universities hunters vets game farmers and even the general public. now after several decades this program is so afective that the elephant...

a lot of my customers in the trade that i am in are game farmers. when i visit them on their farms they often speak of the win-win situatoin between them and usa/european hunters. the situatoin that i am talking of is of course the favorable exchance rate. they often speak of overseas hunters...

i inherited a .308 eusta(austria origin). my father used this rifle on his farm in south-africa since mid 1975 when he bought it. this rifle has brought home a lot of game. accuracy was NEVER a problem. my father never reloaded. he once shot almost 2 tons of game in 2 days. he did this in...

can one build a remote predator caller? importing it to africa will be expensive. i was thinking of a combination of a memory stick and a industrial remote. has anyone ever atempted a home build?

i am so impressed with this site that i might irritade the older members. i do not know what you hunters use in the usa to hunt jackal/fox/coyote, or how you go by hunting it. over here we do anything to kill it. even our strict legislation allows anything to kill it from poison to dogs and...