Goeie dag almal,

Glad to be here to learn from and contribute to such a vast resource and community! I'm a book author with 16 titles and shooting instructor (defensive handgun/rifle, plus safari-prep), having been blessed with five hunts in Africa to date, 52 animals taken. PG and buffalo, as I'm not interested in the cats or elephant. (OK, maybe hippo....) I'm not here to promote or advertise my titles, but I may like to quote from my safari book occasionally to bolster a post...

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I recently acquired a 270 Win from my late father in law, it's in pretty bad shape as far as I'm concerned. I'm appears to be from 1988, internal magazine and a flat top receiver. I already removed the scope, rings and mounts since the scope wasn't aligned correctly anyway, still have to give it a deep cleaning.

it has no sentimental value to my wife or myself I am strongly considering rebarreling to 35 Whelen. Probably going to order a Mcgowen custom barrel eventually and a Boyds stock...

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I enjoy comparing the performance and ballistics of different hunting cartridges which might be selected for hunting the same animals. In this case, I wanted to open a discussion of the 308 vs the 7mm/08 for use on African plains game or North American big game such as deer, elk, etc. I am not a PH but am a hunter with decades of hunting experience and have been to Africa a few times to hunt PG and DG. Even so, few hunters can amass a huge resume of hunting experience in one lifetime and...

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A few days ago, @MontanaGrant started a thread about the Ruger African in 450 Bushmaster that was made exclusively for Randy's Hunting Center in Michigan. This thread eventually devolved into a discussion about what it would take to have a special limited run of rifles made for a group of people (like us!). So I sent RHC an email to ask that question and here is the response I got:

Darryl,

We work very closely with Ruger on exclusive rifles for our company...

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Not sure how many other whisky lovers there are here but I am one of them.

Do a bit of writing occasionally for a few hunting magazines and nothing is a better accompaniment to writing than a nice dram.