What pack do you use in the mountains to hunt sheep, Ibex, goats, tahr, chamois?

How does it carry your rifle?

What do you like about it?

What have you added or changed?

Hello All. In my introduction post I mentioned my wife and I are planning our first SA Safari for spring (US) 2028. We have attended DSC and SCI Nashville and quite frankly our head is spinning from information overload. This is going to be a very special trip for us since it will be the year of my 60th birthday as well as our 40th wedding anniversary, so we want it to be a very special and memorable trip.

Desired animals:

• Gembok
• Nyala
• Kudu
• Red Lechwe or Waterbuck...

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I have a Buck 110 clip point that my Dad gave me for a graduation gift in 1986. (Blade is marked with < )

I carried it on my belt for several years until I broke the tip off in the mid 90's making some kindling for a fire on a backpacking trip in the Cascade Mountains....

Recently I decided that I needed to get the blade repaired or replaced.....Its only been 30 years or so

Today my Dad and I were in Post Falls Idaho on some other business and we stopped by Buck Knives Shop with...

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Does anyone know where I can find an extra power firing pin spring for a current production Winchester Safari Express?

I had one light primer strike with my handloads yesterday. I’m not sure if it was due to a hard primer, not fully seated primer or a weak spring. I’m thinking of replacing it and putting a 25-30 pound spring. I just can’t find any in stock through Wolff. Primers were struck decently, but show better strikes with factory ammunition. I was using CCI magnum primers.

My Pelican 1700 has two mid-layers of foam cut for two different pairs of guns. They have been relegated to the scrap foam pile to be used when I have a need for a chunk of firm foam in some project. They have been replaced with Pelican's Re-Set grids. Stumbled on this new system a couple weeks before the SCI convention while looking for something else. Tested on the flight to Nashville. This system works.
The Re-Set, with the plastic grid holding a bunch of firm foam pegs, not quite an...

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