So with all the stress that I/We have had lately let’s have a little fun! In a recent thread there was some Lonesome Dove quotes that some of us knew and were fun to read sooo…
Movie/Series quotes! Post them up and let see who is the first to know it! NO CHEATING! No going to google, if you know it you know it! And of you don’t know it but want to throw another quote up, throw it up! Let’s keep this going as I know we are all fans of great quotes!

I’ll start! “Two rifles, supplies for a...

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Let me preface this by saying that I'm not planning to have a fist fight here I tend to sometimes think and act differently to conventional wisdons - Carry enough gun, Bigger is always better ...

The Canon Myth: Precision over power.​

Let’s talk about the biggest flaw in dangerous game hunting: the "bigger is always better" mentality. We’ve all seen it a hunter turns up with a massive, shoulder-bruising canon 577, 600, Overkill ..only to develop a terminal case of the...

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I FINALLY got around to completing my animals from my 2021 hunt with Dalton and York in the OMAY. The smaller buffalo is a euro-type skull, and the baboon, well that one isn't finished. I did intentionally drag my feet getting the buffalo done as I wasn't exactly sure where it was going to go in the trophy room. Actually had a friend stop by my house and suggested if I moved around a few things, this space would open up.
Report from my May hunt...

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Understandably this forum focuses on rifles.

I can say when I was in Mozambique last September I dreamed of having a few free mornings and sitting at a waterhole for Doves, Pigeons & Parrots. I think I could have shot a few hundred rounds everyday for the morning flight!

I've hunted all over the US with these shotguns and taken more upland birds than I can remember.

These are my uplanders. Caesar Guerini Woodlander in 12 Gauge & Tempio in 28 Gauge.
They fit me well right off...

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This is my John Rigby & Co. No. 17445 — .500 Nitro Express Rising Bite

Completed on 28 April 1908, Rigby No. 17445 is a Best-quality .500 Nitro Express Rising Bite double rifle, built for H.H. the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior.

Rigby’s ledger records the rifle as a “Best top-lever, vertical-bolt, hammerless ejector,” the terminology referring to the celebrated Rigby Rising Bite action. The distinctive vertical locking bolt rises into engagement with the rib extension as the rifle is closed...

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