I haven't hunted Africa in some years as health issues have sidelined me. But finding this site has got my blood up again, as does reading all these great stories and seeing these great pictures of these wonderful animals. I want to just say Hello and introduce you to a very special friend of mine. My Lefty Win M-70 375 H&H that I took a fair amount of animals with. At the time it was a very difficult LH rifle to find and I had to send to Dallas TX for it. It shoots a heck of a lot better...

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During my wanderings around the SCI Convention, I was able to chat with Steve Rabakoff of Parkwest Arms. While I love the rifles on display and have ideas of buying one soon, my real hearts desire is a single shot break action rifle similar to the Blazer K95, the Merkel K3 or the Thompson Center TCR. Of the ones I've seen and laid hands on, none feel right to me. Steve was very patient as I decribed what for me would be the perfect rifle, and I'd like some input from the members here before...

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Hello everyone, I have just got confirmation to be able to do a lioness for my first safari in may. I’m very lucky as I’ll be going on this trip when I’m 22. That being said I’ve only hunted North America animals mainly whitetail, what are some things to expect when hunting lions. Any tips or stories I would love to hear.

-best regards Zach

This all began about 30 yrs ago when I acquired 3 large Martini actions in various states of disassembly. I managed to salvage 2 working actions out of it. Back then I barreled one of the actions to 45/70. This is one of my favourite rifles, it points like a shotgun and with its 22" barrel is a very short and handy rifle. It weighs 61/2lbs so with 400gr Remington projectiles doing 2,000fps you know when you pull the trigger.
Recently I thought it was time to rebirth the...

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I hope to learn a lot with all of you