I think about the advancing age of hunters globally, and I wonder what price point is sustainable?

In 2005, I spent $5500 plus air fare, tips, rental firearms and some extra animals on a 10 day 10 animal safari in Namibia. Included kudu, 2 oryx, 2 springbuck, 1 blesbok, Mountain Zebra, warthog, steenbok, and a red hartbeest. It was my first safari so it was perfect and even with all the problems, I knew I wanted to go back.

I have spent most of the last 21 years either in the military...

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I only recently ran into 458JCE on another thread and learned his 458 JCE is very similar to my 458 B&M Super Short, but I will let him go into more detail on that, while I will concentrate on my own Super Short cartridges and rifles. These are probably something most of you are not aware of, and if so only vaguely.

The entire B&M adventure for me started with a phone call late in 2005. Life long friend of mine rang me up one evening and told me he wanted a 500 S&W on a lever gun...

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Never seen a rifle engraved with demons fornicating hot chicks. But hey!

You know, there are so many threads about tipping vs not tipping, brake vs no brake, Hornady vs Nosler, Blaser vs everything else LOL.

Here is one I have not seen. Watches.... I am a huge watch lover. I was curious what do all of the AH.com crowd wear when on a hunt? I wore a Suunto Traverse Alpha on my last few hunts. I am so anti digital watches, I am a bit of a snob when it comes to watches. But I thought it would be great as it has a built in breadcrumb view via GPS. This allowed...

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Just curious on people’s experience. Personally I turned 67 Saturday am blessed to weigh what I did playing college football and am in great shape. While I exercise daily father time gets us all at some point. Would love to hear people’s experience or knowledge of some one who has been able to hunt DG at an advanced age. Here is a great example, My first elephant hunting 7 days walking a total of 107 miles was with ph Lou Hallamore who at the time was 81 and going strong!!! When do you ever...

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