So how is one to test loads and get in a little trigger time when it’s a busy holiday season, kids have ski lessons, sun doesn’t rise till after 10am, and it’s still below zero? Snowshoe Gun Club is the short answer,

Luckily my local club has several shooting houses all with wood stoves and stocked wood piles. While the main rifle range has a really nice big house, and steel targets set every 100 yards all the way out to 1000 yards, the shooting holes in each bay are set for using bags or...

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Merry Christmas! I know that having loved ones around, good health, food and shelter, and peace of mind are some of the most important things we can have at any time, much less Christmas. However....If you were blessed enough to be given something really cool this year, what was it?

My favorite was this leather duffle that Wifey got me. She said it looked like something to take to Africa, and that I couldn't keep taking my camo backpack to business functions!

I was in Dande South, about 1995. It was my first safari--for one Cape buffalo with Ingwe Safaris under Bill Bedford. After the long drive in, I felt so privileged to lay my head down to sleep in Zimbabwe. I couldn't believe it was all real, and then, "Uunghh, Uunghh" out in the distance. PH Bruce Watson spoke from over in his tent, "Did you hear the lion, sir?" You bet I did. A hunter from Wyoming shot it a few nights later.

And I did not hear one anywhere else I have been, not even in...

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I just bought one on GunBroker.

Yes, it's true: my real love is lever actions, and this is a bolt gun, so it's kinda weird for me. But it looked really pretty, and the serial number places it pre-1950, and I like older guns. Oh, and this one is a .30-06. I do not currently own a bolt action in that caliber.

Good experiences?
Bad experiences?
African experiences?
Advice?
Photos?

I have read where several of the East African countries issued 404 Jeffrey rifles to their game department people to deal with problem animals back in the day. I am curious what game departments issue now besides the AK-47 or left over Enfield 303s? Winchester is the only company left that I am aware of that makes a dangerous game caliber rifle in a "budget" price point since CZ doesn't make the 550 anymore.