Day 1& 2

Finally I landed in Mozambique after two long days of travel. We started in Little Rock and ended in Tete, Mozambique.

I ran into the usual customs issues with my bow. You would’ve thought it was a nuclear bomb in my luggage—how much attention and confusion it caused them. At one point, I had seven agents looking over my bow with a fine-tooth comb. Two hours later, they determined it was safe, but it would cost me an additional $140 to leave with my bow.

We had a...

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The long-running Politics thread is for serious (or at least mostly serious) discussion of political affairs. The thread "On A Lighter Note" is more for non-political memes and funny stuff.

I'm proposing a new thread that combines the two. It can be for any politically oriented meme or headline regardless of party or political orientation.

Here is something to start it off with.

I tried to post this before but I was new to the forum and it would not let me post items for sale:
My father in law was an avid hunter who made several trips to Africa. Regretfully, he past away this past May. I have several boxes of 375 H&H magnum I would like to sell. The money would go to my mother in law who is now in assisted living :
Winchester 270 gr Power Point 2 boxes, $90 per box
Winchester 300 gr Silver tip 1 Box $100
Remington 270 gr Soft Point 2 boxes $90 per ox
Remington 300...

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Anybody have experience with both these cartridges? I had decided to convert my Savage 30-06 into a 25-06, I have another 30 and don't need 2, but looking for a barrel yesterday I found that I can also convert it to 257Wby. I've wanted a 256 for several years just don't want to pay Mark V prices and this would be a cheap way into it especially if I find that i don't use it much. So those is your that have had both what REAL WORLD pros and cons have you found other than ammo cost. I can...

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is when my flight leaves Atlanta to J'Berg then on a short flight to Kimberly.

First trip to Africa to hunt Cape Buffalo, Sable, Gemsbok, Kudu, Zebra, and assorted other plains game.

I will do my best to post results of note daily. My tech is all supposed to work. Scotch may interfere.

It's Saturday morning. I was fully packed on Monday. I am killing time waiting to get on the plane in NOLA to get to Atlanta (home of the dirty birds).

Will be on the ground for 9 days.

Excited is...

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